Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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American Casino
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Sep 2, 2009 – Sep 15, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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American Casino is nothing new under the Wall Street sun: those Captains of Intemperance lent like there was no tomorrow, resulting in the subprime-mortgage fiasco and bailout. But Leslie and Andrew Cockburn's censorious documentary fleshes out how a million-plus Americans — many in minorities, many industrious — lost their homes and savings to inflated numbers and legal fine print, while Janus-faced culprits ensured that their loopholes and bottom lines were extra round. One victim bemoans the reality of "seeing your life on paper," and via intertitles, footage of at-fault notables (i.e. Greenspan), and interviews with insiders, pundits, and the duped, this film emphatically captures the gleam and boarded-up rot of a system out-of-hand.
