Cinema: Power Plays

WINTER KILLS

Directed and Written by William Richert

SUCCESS

Directed by William Richert

Screenplay by William Richert and Larry Cohen

The hottest Hollywood directors know how to make thrillers, comedies, love stories, even the arrant musical. But few have chosen to dramatize what they have learned best: the secrets of power. These are the film industry's true guilty pleasures—the devilish legerdemain of dealmaking, the bending of a hundred egos to a common purpose, the fine art of humiliating an old friend—and every movie Machiavelli has his own closetful.

In 1979 William Richert, a novice writerdirector,...

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