1. The Yards Review: The Understated Richness of James Gray's Crime ...
Mar 17, 2019 · Taking its title from its setting within the railyards of Queens, New York, the film starts on a fitting enough note with Mark Wahlberg as Leo, ...
James Gray’s second feature film may have gone understated, but its beauty still shines through.
2. The Yards movie review & film summary (2000) | Roger Ebert
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There is a sad, tender quality in "The Yards" I couldn't put my finger on, until I learned that the director's father inspired one of the characters. The
3. The Yards - Rotten Tomatoes
Featuring strong performances and direction, The Yards is a richly textured crime thriller with an authentic feel.
After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. There he takes a new job with his highly connected and influential uncle. But in the yards, where his uncle now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. Unwittingly, he's drawn into a world of sabotage, high stakes payoffs and even murder.
4. The Yards - TIFF
Released on parole, Leo Handler (Mark Wahlberg) returns to his devoted mother (Ellen Burstyn) in Queens, determined to stay on the straight-and-narrow.
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5. THE YARDS - Festival de Cannes
A contemporary drama set against the backdrop of New York City's vast subway yards, “The Yards” centers on Leo Handler who, after serving time in prison.
A contemporary drama set against the backdrop of New York City's vast subway yards, "The Yards" centers on Leo Handler who, after serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of friends, just wants to get his life back on track. So he goes to the one place he thinks will be safe... home. There he takes a new
6. The Yards (2000) - Motion State Review
Dec 18, 2014 · On the surface, The Yards isn't a whole lot different than James Gray's debut feature Little Odessa. Both follow a young man with a rough ...
On the surface, The Yards isn’t a whole lot different than James Gray’s debut feature Little Odessa. Both follow a young man with a rough past returning to his hometown after a long tim…
7. The Yards (2000) - Scene by Green
May 24, 2022 · Much like The Godfather, an attempted assassination taking place in a hospital, though here it is our protagonist setting out to kill.
Even if The Yards is not a wholly original crime drama, it still retains a freshness in moving its study of classical corruption and redemption arcs in inverse directions, as James Gray draws heavi…
8. The Yards - Movie Review - The Austin Chronicle
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There are a number of extremely enjoyable aspects to this second feature by James Gray (Little Odessa), among them Howard Shore's ominous score, which
9. The Yards - Variety
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"The Yards" is an "On the Waterfront" wannabe, directed with a heavy portentousness that smothers the drama in a thick sauce of self-importance. A look at political corruption and personal betrayal, James Gray's sophomore feature develops a degree of dramatic tension, but entombs its characters in a prison of predestined tragedy. Attractive cast and prospect of some good reviews look to spell OK business for this Miramax release.
10. Train Spotting by Jordan Mintzer - Moving Image Source
Dec 14, 2011 · The Yards will be shown on December 15 at 7 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image, and the screening will be followed by a Pinewood Dialogue ...
James Gray on his Viscontian Queens epic The Yards by Jordan Mintzer
11. The Yards Reviews - Metacritic
... taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So, Leo returns to the one place he thinks will ...
A drama set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So, Leo returns to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. But in the yards, where his uncle (Caan) now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. (Miramax Films)
12. James Gray's “The Yards” (1999) - the directors series
Sep 14, 2016 · That film, 1999's THE YARDS, was a dramatic upscaling of Gray's vision and scope and enjoyed the participation of an eclectic, dedicated cast of ...
Notable Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), Toronto, London As an independent filmmaker, the hardest part about making a film is raising the money. Studios have the luxury of hundreds of millions…
13. the yards (2000) | MovieWeb
Summary. THE YARDS is a drama set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, ...
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14. The Yards (2000) - Sight & Sound - BFI
Dec 20, 2011 · Leo Handler arrives back in New York after four years in prison. He takes a job with his Uncle Frank who runs a local subway company. His old ...
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15. The Yards (2000) directed by James Gray • Reviews, film + cast
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife.
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
16. The Yards (James Gray, 2000): neo-noir as generic hybrid | Cairn.info
One night, a sabotage mission on a rival company goes awry: a rail yard supervisor is killed by Willie and a policeman is beaten unconscious by Leo. Leo is ...
1The generic evolution of the noir form has always been a problematic topic for scholars, just as the definition of classical noir films has shifted throughout critical history, up to a point when it was suggested (for instance by Thomas Schatz) that the phrase “film noir” itself refers more to elements of a narrative mode than to a genre proper. By and large, the classical doxa about film noir came to represent the basis upon which the redefinition of the genre through neo-noir was appraised, even if this doxa still remains questioned today. The subjectivist view-points, the flashback narrative structure, or the chiaroscuro lighting typical of the 1941-1958 period (these chronological landmarks being retained for film noir with reference to the releases of John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon and Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil) are among the main classical features against which the variation represented by neo-noir is assessed (Silver and Ursini). Yet, a more specific categorization of neo-noir has been attempted in the critical debate, for instance by Andrew Spicer, who suggested a dual movement can be identified in the advent of neo-noir. From 1981 to the early 1990’s prevailed what he labels as “modernist” neo-noir, characterized by an often reflexive investigation into the issue of unstable identities: “Neo-modernism’s most pervasive concerns were with the problems of identity and memory, depicting unmotivated characters adrift in ambiguous situations beyond their comprehensi...
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