NPR's Scott Simon asks director Gus Van Sant about his new movie, "Dead Man's Wire," based on a true story of a 1977 ...

Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire is based on the 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage crisis in Indianapolis. Explore the real story ...

Gus Van Sant revives a stranger-than-fiction ’70s hostage standoff with jittery energy, dark humor, and period grit.

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire.” ...

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Dramatizing an odd news item from 1977, Gus Van Sant’s crime film isn’t crazy enough. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an ...

The recent trend of movies set in the past but still within living memory is a natural effort to find out how the hell we got here, but I discern another underlying motive: to show life before social ...

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s ...

Art has always imitated life. At any given point, cinema has always reflected the circumstances surrounding it, be it New Hollywood adopting an angrier, more paranoid approach in the post-Watergate ...

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s ...