Venice 2009: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Wesley Snipes Photos

Riccardo Scamarcio, Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor/Actress winner Jasmine Trinca at Il Grande Sogno photocall during the 66th Venice Film Festival.
Photos: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre
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Jaclyn Jonet at Repo Chick photocall.

Antoine Fuqua at Brooklyn’s Finest photocall.

Wesley Snipes at Brooklyn’s Finest photocall.

TRAINING DAY – Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

Training Day (2001)
Direction: Antoine Fuqua
Screenplay: David Ayer
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes, Raymond J. Barry, Dr. Dre
 

 

Every few years, the Los Angeles Police Department gets embroiled in one scandal or other. The public is then told that the problem has been caused by a few bad apples; the system itself remains spotlessly clean. We get to taste quite a few of those bad apples in Training Day, a 2001 thriller that depicts a police culture embedded in corruption and violence. As such, the film could have become an early 21st-century Chinatown — a reflection of a city and a society so corrupt that nothing and no one are what they [...]