New in at Cinema Books: The Spanish Prisoner by Yannis Tzioumakis, $20.00, paper. New volume in the American Indies series on contemporary American films outside the Hollywood mainstream. What’s the difference between con artist and con game? Is David Mamet a playwright or a filmmaker? In this film we see his fascination with the ‘con game’. As an Indy film the narrative, narration and visual style deviates from the standard
