Carlos doesn't get as far as that prison. The movie's fluidly choreographed intrigues and prideful speeches collapse with a whimper as the Jackal is arrested after his most delicate operation yet, at ...

Part Two—in which the Jackal and his tiny squadron seize control of the 1975 OPEC summit meeting in Vienna (on orders from none other than Saddam Hussein)—forms the thumping heart of the movie.

Carlos the Jackal, born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela, reigned as the world’s most-wanted man for 20 years until his 1994 capture in the Sudan, where he was undergoing surgery.

The film is “Carlos,” a dramatization of Carlos the Jackal, who even today inspires dread and fascination for his vicious attacks in Europe and the Middle East from the 1970s until his arrest ...

"Weapons are an extension of my body," says Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Adapted from a five-and-a-half-hour mini-series, this three-hour biopic chronicles 20 years in the life of the ...

Snapshot: A three-part historical drama based on the life of the 1970s terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal. Screens over two days -- starting 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday -- at the Prytania Theatre.

Long movies Carlos checks in at around 5 1/2 hours (there is a also shorter 2 1/2 hours version for some theatrical releases). Surprisingly there are plenty of movies in the same company length ...

Edgar Ramirez stars as Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan-born terrorist who fought for Palestinian liberation and then became famous for kidnapping members of an OPEC conference in 1975.

A MOVIE about the life and times of Carlos the Jackal has opened at the Cannes film festival, a saga shot in as many countries and tongues as the trail of violence left by the former revolutionary.

Not that one needed the carbs -- Assayas’ movie provides plenty of energy of its own, offering just enough thrills to keep the film suspenseful (especially in the second section), without ...

The movie was shot over seven months in locations on three continents, and the 300-page script was so complicated that Assayas had to pitch the project as a TV series in three parts.