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October 2 - 8, 2023 Page 9 "Awareness" (Prime Video — Oct. 11, Movie Premiere) Ian (carlos Scholz), a rebellious teenager living on the outskirts of society, can manipulate minds with his ability to generate visual illu- sions. He uses this power to survive, running small, indiscreet scams. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers. María Pedraza, Pedro Alonso, Óscar Jaenada and Lela Loren also star. word search solution Just as the credits on Roman Polanski's 1968 classic, "Rose- mary's baby," roll, this special feature swoops in to uncover the tragedies that followed the filming of his masterpiece. The death of a young com- poser, the rise of the Manson Family, the death of Polanski's own wife – learn of all this and more in a new episode of "cursed Films," airing Monday, Oct. 2, on AMc. To watch a trailer for the series, see amc- studiosinternational.com/ catalog/17865 WebLinks InFocus During the Watergate era, the conspiracy thriller was one of the most popular movie genres, and "Three Days of the Condor" was one of its best examples. Being shown by MGM+ Drive-In on Tuesday, Oct, 10, and by MGM+ on Thursday, Oct. 12, the Sydney Pollack-directed 1975 thriller has had an enduring leg- acy, to the extent that it inspired "Condor" ... the series originally made for AT&T's Audience Net- work and picked up later by MG- M+'s forerunner, EPIX. Despite some revisions to the content, the show kept the basic theme of a fugitive on the run after assassins (led in the film by a suave Max von Sydow) commit a massacre at his office, a (supposedly) disguised research office for the CIA. In the original version, the man being chased by the killers who missed him is played by Robert Redford, playing brilliant yet vulnerable as a likable know- it-all who's savvy enough to know that a murder scheme was lifted from the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. Out getting lunch while unaware that his co-workers are being slaughtered, he returns to a horrific scene that sends him flee- ing through New York, hoping his superiors will bring him in and protect him. Instead, as represented primar- ily, coldly and superbly by Cliff Robertson, they leave him on his own to draw fire .... and to figure out why he and his late colleagues became targets. Needing shelter, Redford's Joe Turner randomly kidnaps a customer from a store he's ducked into; luckily for him and us, she's played by Faye Dunaway, making for a very pho- togenic couple even at their most tense moments together. Pollack keeps the action moving at a fine pace with some show-stopping moments, such as the visit by a presumed mailman to the Dunaway character's home, and the ultimate confrontation that lets Turner know whether he's merely been paranoid about his hunch that there's a rogue "CIA within the CIA." moviereview By Jay Bobbin Robert Redford in "Three Days of the Condor" Redford does much to help "Condor" take flight

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