I watched a couple of these:
Kaleidoscope-
A brief poker game at end (5 card stud).
As all of Warren Beatty's films this was pretty good. I had tried watching it a couple of years ago but the slow beginning had thrown me out of the zone. I stayed in it this time and although a Hollywood film today wouldn't be allowed to take this long to get started there was a point to it.
I will likely go back to this in ~10 years and offer my alternative line (how I'd have done it/how I think it should've been done. NB cutting out that start will give us 5 minutes to work with)
A big hand for the little lady-
Recommended by Greg Raymer on the recent Cardplayer poker stories podcast. Side note: I really like this format of interview, possibly even more than joey ingram's light-hearted style.
Tbh I was a bit disappointed.
I won't give any plot details away and yes poker was a BIG part of the story but you had an opportunity to write some really good characterisations. Heck you've got the great Jason Robards when he was relatively young.
I lost the plot about an hour in though that may have just been me. I thought the premise was a bit preposterous but what do i know i've only seen 5000 films
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