Heist – ZooScope

Freya Hadfield
29th May 2020
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Dir. Marielle Heller. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2018.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Dir. Marielle Heller. Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2018. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Freya Hadfield Freya Hadfield https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/56ad322657feb0c34a2e6c76d253b1fc?s=96&d=mm&r=g 29th May 2020 25th May 2021

Hellers’ biopic Can You Ever Forgive Me (1) is about struggling writer Lee Israel who, to finance her cat’s vet bills, becomes a master forger of literary letters. Impersonating figures…

A Fish Called Wanda. Dir. Charles Crichton. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US) and United International Pictures (UK). 1988.

A Fish Called Wanda. Dir. Charles Crichton. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (US) and United International Pictures (UK). 1988. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Tilly Gerrard Tilly Gerrard https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f1765193eb9a7d5a12265f81948bb0d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g 13th December 2018 25th May 2021

The murder of three small dogs one after the other is not what most people would think of as funny. Yet this exact progression becomes a running gag in Charles…

Snatch. Dir. Guy Ritchie. Columbia Pictures. 2000.

Snatch. Dir. Guy Ritchie. Columbia Pictures. 2000. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Harry Howes Harry Howes https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/71cf4584ec66209cbd0b644162200cef?s=96&d=mm&r=g 31st December 2015 25th May 2021

What do you get when you cross an unlicensed boxing match, a gang of angry gypsies and an 86-carat diamond that everybody wants to get their hands on? Guy Ritchie’s…