Every 10 years or so, Hollywood seems to fall head over heels in love with a writer. In the 1990s, studios couldn't stop turning John Grisham's legal drama/thriller novels into movies. Such was also the case with romance novelist Nicholas Sparks, starting with "Message in a Bottle" in 1999 and stretching on throughout the 2000s and a little beyond.
More recently, journalist and writer David Grann has quietly emerged as the hot new thing in Tinseltown. His book "Killers of the Flower Moon" is now a $200 million, three-hour epic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the screen rights to his newest work, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder," were acquired by Scorsese and DiCaprio before it was even published. Recent years have also seen Grann's book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" and his New Yorker article...
More recently, journalist and writer David Grann has quietly emerged as the hot new thing in Tinseltown. His book "Killers of the Flower Moon" is now a $200 million, three-hour epic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and the screen rights to his newest work, "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder," were acquired by Scorsese and DiCaprio before it was even published. Recent years have also seen Grann's book "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" and his New Yorker article...
- 5/18/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
There is something fitting about the fact that a charming adventure story about a boy that never grows up who leads a cadre of children wishing to remain similarly youthful and carefree forever gets remade in one form or another every decade or so. It speaks to the fact that the desire to avoid adulthood and remain unmoored and childlike forever remains as strong as ever, if not stronger. At the same time, it reveals our seeming inability to understand fully why the story is so resonant. Every time the story is told, you can feel the creator struggling with the material, wrestling with its meaning, imparting in the story their own beliefs and fears.
Director David Lowery, who has spent the last decade building an aesthetically and thematically similar but tonally diverse oeuvre, is a perfect modern match for this material. His works have explored heartache and loneliness and...
Director David Lowery, who has spent the last decade building an aesthetically and thematically similar but tonally diverse oeuvre, is a perfect modern match for this material. His works have explored heartache and loneliness and...
- 4/28/2023
- by Brian Roan
- The Film Stage
Movie star John Wayne was never one to shy away from having a drink. Whether he was on a movie set or enjoying life on his houseboat, he frequently enjoyed including alcohol in his plans. According to the official Wayne Facebook page, he claimed, “I never trust a man who doesn’t drink.” However, this revealed a lot about his character.
John Wayne found comradery in sharing a drink L-r: John Wayne and Forrest Tucker | Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
It’s important to acknowledge why Wayne held such importance in an alcoholic drink, to begin with. He greatly valued the comradery that came with sharing alcohol with a friend or a colleague. The movie star viewed it as an opportunity to be genuine with one another, and to share laughs and stories.
Some of Wayne’s closest friends included actor Ward Bond and director John Ford. The trio...
John Wayne found comradery in sharing a drink L-r: John Wayne and Forrest Tucker | Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
It’s important to acknowledge why Wayne held such importance in an alcoholic drink, to begin with. He greatly valued the comradery that came with sharing alcohol with a friend or a colleague. The movie star viewed it as an opportunity to be genuine with one another, and to share laughs and stories.
Some of Wayne’s closest friends included actor Ward Bond and director John Ford. The trio...
- 4/5/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Lone Ranger is an American Western drama that aired on television from 1949 until 1957. It starred Clayton Moore in the starring role, who was temporarily replaced by John Hart, as well as Jay Silverheels starring in the supporting role of Tonto. Here’s a list of five other television shows to watch if The Lone Ranger had you hooked to your screen.
L-r: Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto | Getty Images ‘The Rifleman’ (1958-1963) L-r: Chuck Connors as Lucas and Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
The Rifleman follows the various adventures of a Wild West rancher Lucas McCain played by Chuck Connors, who travels with his son, Mark McCain, and a rapid-fire Winchester file in hand. Johnny Crawford starred as his son in what became one of the first primetime television shows to display a single parent raising a child.
L-r: Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto | Getty Images ‘The Rifleman’ (1958-1963) L-r: Chuck Connors as Lucas and Johnny Crawford as Mark McCain | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
The Rifleman follows the various adventures of a Wild West rancher Lucas McCain played by Chuck Connors, who travels with his son, Mark McCain, and a rapid-fire Winchester file in hand. Johnny Crawford starred as his son in what became one of the first primetime television shows to display a single parent raising a child.
- 3/28/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Western movie star John Wayne frequently rode a horse to complete his cowboy image. However, he grew an affinity for one animal in particular. Wayne went out of his way to ensure that he could ride the same horse named Dollar across seven of his movies.
‘True Grit’ (1969) L-r: John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn and Glen Campbell as La Boeuf | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
The first time that Wayne worked with Dollar the horse on the silver screen was in 1969’s True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway.
A 14-year-old named Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn (Wayne), a man of “true grit.” He’ll need every ounce of it on a mission to track down a hired hand named Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) after he killed Mattie’s father.
Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) joins them on the hunt, looking to bring Tom...
‘True Grit’ (1969) L-r: John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn and Glen Campbell as La Boeuf | Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images
The first time that Wayne worked with Dollar the horse on the silver screen was in 1969’s True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway.
A 14-year-old named Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn (Wayne), a man of “true grit.” He’ll need every ounce of it on a mission to track down a hired hand named Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) after he killed Mattie’s father.
Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell) joins them on the hunt, looking to bring Tom...
- 3/23/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Best known as gag writer Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Morey Amsterdam wrote, produced and starred in this low budget black and white comedy made as the Van Dyke show was nearing its end. A blend of Catskill one-liners and outdated topical humor, it stars two other Van Dyke veterans, Rose Marie, Richard Deacon and a host of celebrity cameos including Forrest Tucker who shot his segment during his lunch break on F-Troop.
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- 3/10/2023
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we examine three under-the-radar films which more than likely escaped your notice.
Uzmaki is a 2000 horror film based on a manga (Japanese graphic novel) which was still being created while the movie was being made. Hence, the two stories ended up with different endings. The plot centers on a town’s obsession with spirals, and the tendency of its inhabitants to turn into snails. The real horror? There is no French restaurant around to take advantage of the suddenly plentiful supply of king-sized escargot.
Beware if you see this in a theater and one of the patrons leaves a slimy trail as he exits.
The film was released as the lead picture of a double feature – which leaves us to wonder why the second half was...
Uzmaki is a 2000 horror film based on a manga (Japanese graphic novel) which was still being created while the movie was being made. Hence, the two stories ended up with different endings. The plot centers on a town’s obsession with spirals, and the tendency of its inhabitants to turn into snails. The real horror? There is no French restaurant around to take advantage of the suddenly plentiful supply of king-sized escargot.
Beware if you see this in a theater and one of the patrons leaves a slimy trail as he exits.
The film was released as the lead picture of a double feature – which leaves us to wonder why the second half was...
- 3/9/2023
- by Randy Fuller
- Trailers from Hell
When folks say they love winter, typically they refer to the earliest months of the season, with winter beginning on Dec. 21 in the northern hemisphere. In those early days of holiday cheer, there is something familiar and comforting about the cold. But eventually the bright lights go away, and the wind howls louder. Eventually, all you’re left with is icy darkness.
Perhaps that’s why so many of the best horror movies are set during the winter season! Utilizing folks’ fear of barren bleakness, and the tedium of being trapped inside becoming lethal, filmmakers who run the gamut from Stanley Kubrick to John Carpenter have imprinted our worst nightmares onto the snow. Below is a list of their frozen works.
30 Days of Night (2007)
They have lived in shadows long enough. They are the last of their kind. But above the Arctic Circle there’s a party going on,...
Perhaps that’s why so many of the best horror movies are set during the winter season! Utilizing folks’ fear of barren bleakness, and the tedium of being trapped inside becoming lethal, filmmakers who run the gamut from Stanley Kubrick to John Carpenter have imprinted our worst nightmares onto the snow. Below is a list of their frozen works.
30 Days of Night (2007)
They have lived in shadows long enough. They are the last of their kind. But above the Arctic Circle there’s a party going on,...
- 2/6/2023
- by Jbindeck2015
- Den of Geek
Larry Storch, the stand-up comic turned ubiquitous television actor who made an indelible impression as the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on the 1960s sitcom F Troop, has died. He was 99.
His death was announced on his Facebook page. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news our beloved Larry passed away in his sleep overnight. We are shocked and at a loss for words at the moment. Please remember he loved each and every one of you and wouldn’t want you to cry over his passing. He is reunited with his wife Norma and his beloved F Troop cast and so many friends and family.”
Born in New York City – his Bronx accent would be used to enduring effect in his comic portrayals – Storch began his show business career as a stand-up comic and parlayed his popularity to a prolific and long-lasting television career,...
His death was announced on his Facebook page. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news our beloved Larry passed away in his sleep overnight. We are shocked and at a loss for words at the moment. Please remember he loved each and every one of you and wouldn’t want you to cry over his passing. He is reunited with his wife Norma and his beloved F Troop cast and so many friends and family.”
Born in New York City – his Bronx accent would be used to enduring effect in his comic portrayals – Storch began his show business career as a stand-up comic and parlayed his popularity to a prolific and long-lasting television career,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Larry Storch, the manic comic actor who starred as the bumbling sidekick Corporal Randolph Agarn on the 1960s ABC sitcom F Troop, has died. He was 99.
Storch, who got his start as a stand-up comic, did impressions and voiced the all-knowing Phineas J. Whoopee on the classic cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, died early Friday morning of natural causes in his apartment on the Upper West Side of New York, his personal manager, Matt Beckoff, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“If I told you how nice he was, you wouldn’t believe it,” Beckoff said.
Storch was great friends with Tony Curtis — a fellow New Yorker whom he met when they served aboard a submarine tender in the U.S. Navy — and they appeared together in The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), Who Was That Lady? (1960), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Sex...
Larry Storch, the manic comic actor who starred as the bumbling sidekick Corporal Randolph Agarn on the 1960s ABC sitcom F Troop, has died. He was 99.
Storch, who got his start as a stand-up comic, did impressions and voiced the all-knowing Phineas J. Whoopee on the classic cartoon Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, died early Friday morning of natural causes in his apartment on the Upper West Side of New York, his personal manager, Matt Beckoff, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“If I told you how nice he was, you wouldn’t believe it,” Beckoff said.
Storch was great friends with Tony Curtis — a fellow New Yorker whom he met when they served aboard a submarine tender in the U.S. Navy — and they appeared together in The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), Who Was That Lady? (1960), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Sex...
- 7/8/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Larry Storch, who memorably played Corporal Randolph Agarn on the mid-1960s ABC sitcom F Troop, died on July 8, six months shy of his 100th birthday.
The actor’s passing was announced by his official Facebook page.
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“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news our beloved Larry passed away in his sleep overnight,” the message reads. “We are shocked and at...
The actor’s passing was announced by his official Facebook page.
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“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news our beloved Larry passed away in his sleep overnight,” the message reads. “We are shocked and at...
- 7/8/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
“I had me a quiet woman once. Outside she was as calm as Sunday, but inside wild as mountain scenery.”
Randolph Scott was a Hollywood Cowboy Legend, the always tall-in-the-saddle hero who helped define the genre. Rustle up a spot and enjoy 12 of his classics in this special 6-disc Western roundup. Making their Blu-ray debut in the United States and filled with new bonus features and collectible booklet, this is an impressive collection fit for any western movie fan! Order the set Here
Here’s a vintage trailer for Ride Lonesome:
The film in this set include:
The Desperadoes
The Nevadan
Santa Fe
Man in the Saddle
Hangman’s Knot
The Stranger Wore a Gun
A Lawless Street
The Tall T
Decision At Sundown
Buchanan Rides Alone
Ride Lonesome
Comanche Station
The films star Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Forrest Tucker, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin, Angela Landsbury, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Carroll, Lee Van Cleef,...
Randolph Scott was a Hollywood Cowboy Legend, the always tall-in-the-saddle hero who helped define the genre. Rustle up a spot and enjoy 12 of his classics in this special 6-disc Western roundup. Making their Blu-ray debut in the United States and filled with new bonus features and collectible booklet, this is an impressive collection fit for any western movie fan! Order the set Here
Here’s a vintage trailer for Ride Lonesome:
The film in this set include:
The Desperadoes
The Nevadan
Santa Fe
Man in the Saddle
Hangman’s Knot
The Stranger Wore a Gun
A Lawless Street
The Tall T
Decision At Sundown
Buchanan Rides Alone
Ride Lonesome
Comanche Station
The films star Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Forrest Tucker, Donna Reed, Lee Marvin, Angela Landsbury, Maureen O’Sullivan, John Carroll, Lee Van Cleef,...
- 10/27/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Joan Weldon, stage actress and a Warner Bros. contract player in the 1950s who achieved lasting sci-fi fame in the creature feature giant ant classic Them!, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She was 90.
Her death was only recently announced by her family. A cause was not specified, but the family notes that she “passed away peacefully” at home.
“A talented and successful opera singer and actress of theatre, film, musicals and television, she was simply known to many as Joanie,” the family writes, “whose love for light-hearted pranks and practical jokes spread joy wherever she went.”
Born in San Francisco, Weldon began her professional career at age 16 when she became the San Francisco Opera’s youngest contract singer. She would return to the live stage often, appearing on Broadway opposite Alfred Drake in the 1961 musical Kean.
In 1958 she played Marian the Librarian in the national touring...
Her death was only recently announced by her family. A cause was not specified, but the family notes that she “passed away peacefully” at home.
“A talented and successful opera singer and actress of theatre, film, musicals and television, she was simply known to many as Joanie,” the family writes, “whose love for light-hearted pranks and practical jokes spread joy wherever she went.”
Born in San Francisco, Weldon began her professional career at age 16 when she became the San Francisco Opera’s youngest contract singer. She would return to the live stage often, appearing on Broadway opposite Alfred Drake in the 1961 musical Kean.
In 1958 she played Marian the Librarian in the national touring...
- 3/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Just under the top echelon of British sci-fi lurks this well-produced, absorbing ‘expedition to terror!’ that surprises us by paying off on an intellectual plane. After building his monster but before defeating Dracula, Peter Cushing found himself in a real fix on a snowy mountain peak. Sure, the race of enormous Yeti are shiver-inducing, but Cushing must also withstand the mind games of a suspiciously solicitous Tibetan Lhama, and a piratical double-cross by an American huckster who goes by the deceptive name, ‘Friend.’
The Abominable Snowman
Blu-ray
Shout! Scream Factory
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 85, 90 min. / The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas / Street Date December 10, 2020
Starring: Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Arnold Marlé, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown, Michael Brill, Wolfe Morris, Anthony Chinn.
Cinematography: Arthur Grant
Film Editor: Bill Lenny
Original Music: Humphrey Searle
Written by Nigel Kneale from his teleplay The Creature
Produced by Aubrey Baring, Michael Carreras, Anthony Nelson-Keys...
The Abominable Snowman
Blu-ray
Shout! Scream Factory
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 85, 90 min. / The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas / Street Date December 10, 2020
Starring: Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Arnold Marlé, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown, Michael Brill, Wolfe Morris, Anthony Chinn.
Cinematography: Arthur Grant
Film Editor: Bill Lenny
Original Music: Humphrey Searle
Written by Nigel Kneale from his teleplay The Creature
Produced by Aubrey Baring, Michael Carreras, Anthony Nelson-Keys...
- 2/1/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
This week, we have another great group of home media releases on tap that has a little something for fans of both new and old horror. Pennywise and the kids from Derry come home on Tuesday with It Chapter Two, as it’s being released on multiple formats, and if you’re in the mood for some ambitious sci-fi, be sure to check out Freaks, too (Bruce Dern is a delight!).
In terms of genre classics, Scream Factory has put together an incredible box set with their The Fly Collection, and they’re also showing some love to The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957) and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde as well.
Other releases for December 10th include Viy, Along Came the Devil II, The Tombs, The Wrath, and The Curse of Buckout Road.
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)
He'll turn your spine to ice! Botanist Dr. John Rollason...
In terms of genre classics, Scream Factory has put together an incredible box set with their The Fly Collection, and they’re also showing some love to The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957) and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde as well.
Other releases for December 10th include Viy, Along Came the Devil II, The Tombs, The Wrath, and The Curse of Buckout Road.
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)
He'll turn your spine to ice! Botanist Dr. John Rollason...
- 12/9/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Horror changes with each generation. In the ‘50s, societal fear of the Atomic bomb was projected back at us through the use of metaphorical figures such as giant lizards, oversized sea-creatures, and warped representations of nature too often taken for granted. And then there’s fun fare like The Crawling Eye (1958), which posits that visitors from space don’t always come in peace, nor are they willing to go quietly. I guess films don’t always have to reflect society.
This British independent production was released at home under its original title The Trollenberg Terror (also the name of the 1956 BBC serial it is based on) in October with a stateside rollout at the end of the year; unloved by critics (and mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000), the film satiated the drive-in circuit looking for cheap thrills and cheaper monsters. But The Crawling Eye offers up more - atmosphere,...
This British independent production was released at home under its original title The Trollenberg Terror (also the name of the 1956 BBC serial it is based on) in October with a stateside rollout at the end of the year; unloved by critics (and mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000), the film satiated the drive-in circuit looking for cheap thrills and cheaper monsters. But The Crawling Eye offers up more - atmosphere,...
- 8/31/2019
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Stars: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts | Written and Directed by David Lowery
[Note: With the film out now on DVD in the UK, here's a reposting of our review of The Old Man & the Gun from its brief cinematic showing]
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession
David Lowery returns rather quickly to the realm of cinema after his stoically ambitious loved or loathed romantic drama A Ghost Story with 70′s inspired and produced drama The Old Man & The Gun.
[Note: With the film out now on DVD in the UK, here's a reposting of our review of The Old Man & the Gun from its brief cinematic showing]
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession
David Lowery returns rather quickly to the realm of cinema after his stoically ambitious loved or loathed romantic drama A Ghost Story with 70′s inspired and produced drama The Old Man & The Gun.
- 4/2/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
To mark the release of The Old Man and The Gun, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek will steal your heart in this charming comedy about the mostly true story of Forrest Tucker (Redford) – from his daring prison escape at age 70 to an unprecedented string of bank heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who is captivated by Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and Jewel (Spacek), the woman loves him despite his criminal ways.
Watch our exclusive The Old Man and The Gun interviews here:
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek will steal your heart in this charming comedy about the mostly true story of Forrest Tucker (Redford) – from his daring prison escape at age 70 to an unprecedented string of bank heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who is captivated by Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and Jewel (Spacek), the woman loves him despite his criminal ways.
Watch our exclusive The Old Man and The Gun interviews here:
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
a Rafflecopter giveaway
The Old Man & The Gun is available now on Digital Download, VOD and DVD.
The Small Print
Open to UK residents only The competition will close 11th April...
- 4/1/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts | Written and Directed by David Lowery
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession
David Lowery returns rather quickly to the realm of cinema after his stoically ambitious loved or loathed romantic drama A Ghost Story with 70′s inspired and produced drama The Old Man & The Gun. Once again collaborating with cinematic muse Casey Affleck and film icons such as Sissy Spacek,...
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession
David Lowery returns rather quickly to the realm of cinema after his stoically ambitious loved or loathed romantic drama A Ghost Story with 70′s inspired and produced drama The Old Man & The Gun. Once again collaborating with cinematic muse Casey Affleck and film icons such as Sissy Spacek,...
- 1/8/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Redford’s swansong film, in which he plays an audacious real-life bank robber, makes light of the heists but offers a sad, sweet farewell performance
Robert Redford bows out of his extraordinary movie-acting career at the age of 82 with this homely, folksy, feelgood-bittersweet dramedy: a slightly gussied-up version of a startling true story. Forrest Tucker, played here by Redford, was a bank robber and serial prison-escaper who around the turn of this century hit the headlines as a dapper seventysomething by pulling off a series of bank heists, always impeccably courteous and well-dressed, flashing the gun inside his jacket to the astonished bank teller who would be almost hypnotised by his casual aplomb. Tucker would often be in the company of a couple of other old rascals: they became known to chortling TV newsreaders as the The Over-the-Hill Gang.
In 2003, the New Yorker’s David Grann published a longform article...
Robert Redford bows out of his extraordinary movie-acting career at the age of 82 with this homely, folksy, feelgood-bittersweet dramedy: a slightly gussied-up version of a startling true story. Forrest Tucker, played here by Redford, was a bank robber and serial prison-escaper who around the turn of this century hit the headlines as a dapper seventysomething by pulling off a series of bank heists, always impeccably courteous and well-dressed, flashing the gun inside his jacket to the astonished bank teller who would be almost hypnotised by his casual aplomb. Tucker would often be in the company of a couple of other old rascals: they became known to chortling TV newsreaders as the The Over-the-Hill Gang.
In 2003, the New Yorker’s David Grann published a longform article...
- 12/6/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
By Lee Pfeiffer
Ken Berry, who rose to fame in the 1960s as one of the stars of the "F Troop" TV series, has died at age 85. Berry entered show business thanks to the efforts of Leonard Nimoy, who was Berry's sergeant in the U.S. Army. After Nimoy left the service and entered the acting profession, he helped find opportunities for Berry, who went on to stardom in the mid-1960s as Captain Parmenter, the likable but inept commanding officer of U.S. Cavalry post in the old West that was populated by con men and incompetents. Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch co-starred with Berry in the show that ran from 1965 to 1967. When Andy Griffith decided to retire from his immensely popular sitcom, he created a spin-off series, "Mayberry R.F.D" that featured Berry as the male lead. The show defied expectations and began a ratings hit, thanks in no small part to Berry's pleasant,...
Ken Berry, who rose to fame in the 1960s as one of the stars of the "F Troop" TV series, has died at age 85. Berry entered show business thanks to the efforts of Leonard Nimoy, who was Berry's sergeant in the U.S. Army. After Nimoy left the service and entered the acting profession, he helped find opportunities for Berry, who went on to stardom in the mid-1960s as Captain Parmenter, the likable but inept commanding officer of U.S. Cavalry post in the old West that was populated by con men and incompetents. Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch co-starred with Berry in the show that ran from 1965 to 1967. When Andy Griffith decided to retire from his immensely popular sitcom, he created a spin-off series, "Mayberry R.F.D" that featured Berry as the male lead. The show defied expectations and began a ratings hit, thanks in no small part to Berry's pleasant,...
- 12/3/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
To mark the release of The Old Man & The Gun on 7th December, we’ve been given 2 bundles including a signed poster from the director David Lowery, a copy of the book the film is based on, and the soundtrack to give away.
The Old Man & The Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
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The Old Man & The Gun is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
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- 12/3/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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F Troop's Commander of Fort Courage Ken Berry was given his first assignment by Mr. Spock when he was a lowly sergeant.
Ken Berry, best known for his role as Captain Wilton Parmenter on the TV comedy series F Troop, died Saturday at age 85, according to Variety.
“Dear friends. We are sad to let you know our beloved Captain, Mr Ken Berry passed away tonight,” Larry Storch, who played F Troop's Corporal Agarn, wrote to Facebook. “We just spoke with Jackie Joseph who confirmed the devastating news. We are at a true loss for words. Ken, we hope you know how much you were loved. Goodnight Captain. We miss you already.”
Berry could deliver lines, but his forte was physical comedy. Trained as a dancer since he joined the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program traveling performance ensemble at age 15, Berry was often assigned long, seemingly impossible takes...
F Troop's Commander of Fort Courage Ken Berry was given his first assignment by Mr. Spock when he was a lowly sergeant.
Ken Berry, best known for his role as Captain Wilton Parmenter on the TV comedy series F Troop, died Saturday at age 85, according to Variety.
“Dear friends. We are sad to let you know our beloved Captain, Mr Ken Berry passed away tonight,” Larry Storch, who played F Troop's Corporal Agarn, wrote to Facebook. “We just spoke with Jackie Joseph who confirmed the devastating news. We are at a true loss for words. Ken, we hope you know how much you were loved. Goodnight Captain. We miss you already.”
Berry could deliver lines, but his forte was physical comedy. Trained as a dancer since he joined the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program traveling performance ensemble at age 15, Berry was often assigned long, seemingly impossible takes...
- 12/2/2018
- Den of Geek
In his first film as David Lowery’s cinematographer, The Old Man & the Gun’s Joe Anderson got the opportunity to work with a legend—to celebrate a career’s worth of magnetic turns from the iconic Robert Redford, with images to mirror his signature charm.
Based on a New Yorker article by David Grann, and following up on the Sundance alum’s collaboration with Redford on Pete’s Dragon, the light and comedic crime drama casts Redford as Forrest Tucker, an infamously charming career criminal who pulled off a substantial list of heists and 18 prison escapes, continuing to pursue his passion for his very particular craft into his twilight years.
While Redford has suggested Old Man will be his last screen turn, Anderson and Lowery didn’t approach the project as such. “We just wanted to make a movie that people liked, with this star that they knew and loved.
Based on a New Yorker article by David Grann, and following up on the Sundance alum’s collaboration with Redford on Pete’s Dragon, the light and comedic crime drama casts Redford as Forrest Tucker, an infamously charming career criminal who pulled off a substantial list of heists and 18 prison escapes, continuing to pursue his passion for his very particular craft into his twilight years.
While Redford has suggested Old Man will be his last screen turn, Anderson and Lowery didn’t approach the project as such. “We just wanted to make a movie that people liked, with this star that they knew and loved.
- 11/14/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Announcing his retirement from acting earlier this summer, veteran Hollywood actor Robert Redford hinted that his latest film The Old Man and The Gun could well be his last big screen role in what has been a remarkably fruitful and hugely successful career, spanning decades and hundreds of iconic appearances on and off-screen.
Directed by David Lowery and based on David Grann’s New Yorker article of the same name, The Old Man and The Gun offers a slow-burning semi-comedic crime caper which pits octogenarian Redford against Casey Affleck in a story about a recidivist prison escape artist and the young police detective on his hot pursuit.
At the age of 70, career criminal Forrest Tucker (Redford) makes an audacious escape from San Quentin prison. Joined by long-time friends and partners in crime Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits), the trio go on to conduct an astonishing string of bank...
Directed by David Lowery and based on David Grann’s New Yorker article of the same name, The Old Man and The Gun offers a slow-burning semi-comedic crime caper which pits octogenarian Redford against Casey Affleck in a story about a recidivist prison escape artist and the young police detective on his hot pursuit.
At the age of 70, career criminal Forrest Tucker (Redford) makes an audacious escape from San Quentin prison. Joined by long-time friends and partners in crime Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits), the trio go on to conduct an astonishing string of bank...
- 11/12/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Europe’s mainstay fest for cinematography, newly rechristened EnergaCamerimage, launched its 26th edition and a week of 241 film screenings in the Polish town of Bydgoszcz on Saturday with a guest appearance by Roman Polanski.
The controversial but seminal director of classics such as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” took the stage to honor a longtime colleague, cinematographer Witold Sobocinski, with a lifetime achievement award for his luminous lensing. The pair, who shared stories from film school in Poland under the former communist regime, worked together in 1988 on “Frantic,” the Paris-set thriller starring Emmanuelle Seigner, now Polanski’s wife.
The master lenser also filmed “The Wedding” and the Oscar-nommed “The Promised Land,” both directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Fest director Marek Zydowicz credited Sobocinski with influencing a generation of cinematographers, noting he continues to teach at the Lodz film school that has set dozens of future directors and camera people on their professional paths.
The controversial but seminal director of classics such as “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Chinatown” took the stage to honor a longtime colleague, cinematographer Witold Sobocinski, with a lifetime achievement award for his luminous lensing. The pair, who shared stories from film school in Poland under the former communist regime, worked together in 1988 on “Frantic,” the Paris-set thriller starring Emmanuelle Seigner, now Polanski’s wife.
The master lenser also filmed “The Wedding” and the Oscar-nommed “The Promised Land,” both directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Fest director Marek Zydowicz credited Sobocinski with influencing a generation of cinematographers, noting he continues to teach at the Lodz film school that has set dozens of future directors and camera people on their professional paths.
- 11/10/2018
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Redford’s final day on David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun — perhaps his final day as an actor on any movie set — found him in Texas. Though the amiable based-in-fact caper was shot largely in Ohio on 16mm, Redford’s dapper bank robber actually did most of his pillaging in Texas and its neighboring states. Thus a few pick-ups were needed — the last of which featured Redford’s Forrest Tucker phoning a widowed rancher he’s romancing. “There was a little bit of electricity in the air for that scene,” said cinematographer Joe Anderson. “The shot worked really […]...
- 10/25/2018
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Robert Redford’s final day on David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun — perhaps his final day as an actor on any movie set — found him in Texas. Though the amiable based-in-fact caper was shot largely in Ohio on 16mm, Redford’s dapper bank robber actually did most of his pillaging in Texas and its neighboring states. Thus a few pick-ups were needed — the last of which featured Redford’s Forrest Tucker phoning a widowed rancher he’s romancing. “There was a little bit of electricity in the air for that scene,” said cinematographer Joe Anderson. “The shot worked really […]...
- 10/25/2018
- by Matt Mulcahey
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Robert Redford could well win an Oscar for his final role on film in “The Old Man and the Gun,” which recently charmed audiences at the London Film Festival. Writer/director David Lowery tells a merry little story that moves along at a neat pace with an entirely relaxed approach that extends to the performances. Here’s the official synopsis of the Fox Searchlight Pictures movie: Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
In Redford’s swansong, his charm, charisma and likeability are used to full effect. This screen legend has only reaped one Oscar bid for acting: he lost in 1974 for his performance in the Best Picture champ “The Sting” to Jack Lemmon (“Save the Tiger”). He did win an Academy Award for directing the 1981 Best Picture “Ordinary People.
In Redford’s swansong, his charm, charisma and likeability are used to full effect. This screen legend has only reaped one Oscar bid for acting: he lost in 1974 for his performance in the Best Picture champ “The Sting” to Jack Lemmon (“Save the Tiger”). He did win an Academy Award for directing the 1981 Best Picture “Ordinary People.
- 10/16/2018
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Want to win an Oscar? Here’s a tip: play a real-life person! The Academy Awards have always had a soft spot for actors who take on true-to-life characters. In fact, a whopping 7 of the past 10 Best Actor winners fall into this category, including last year’s champ Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour.” Will Christian Bale‘s performance as Dick Cheney in “Vice” be the next to join this ever-growing list? Click through our photo gallery below to see every performer who has won the Best Actor Oscar for playing a real-life person.
SEESee how Christian Bale balloons into VP Dick Cheney in the just-landed ‘Vice’ trailer
Much like Oldman’s Churchill, Bale’s Cheney is an achievement in makeup and hairstyling. In fact, the physical transformation is so massive that Bale is virtually unrecognizable in Annapurna’s new trailer. “From the pot-bellied physique and corona of...
SEESee how Christian Bale balloons into VP Dick Cheney in the just-landed ‘Vice’ trailer
Much like Oldman’s Churchill, Bale’s Cheney is an achievement in makeup and hairstyling. In fact, the physical transformation is so massive that Bale is virtually unrecognizable in Annapurna’s new trailer. “From the pot-bellied physique and corona of...
- 10/6/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Telling the true story of Forrest Tucker, who escaped from prison at the age of 70 and then pulled off a string of amazing heists, The Old Man and the Gun is both thrilling and enchanting. Robert Redford engagingly portrays the venerable criminal with sprightly charm and a twinkle in his eye. In in our exclusive featurette, Redford says he was surprised when his old friend Mickey Gilbert showed up on location: "I wasn't expecting to see him .. it was such a feeling of camaraderie...
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- 10/5/2018
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Imagine you’re hanging out with someone’s sweet old grandmother, the kind of person who will ask if you’ve got a sweater in case it gets cold, and how are things at school, and would you like a slice of pie or some more peach iced tea? Now picture that same person having once played a blood-splattered teenager primed to slaughter her fellow high school students, or one half of a serial-killer couple, or country-and-western legend Loretta Lynn.
This is a bit what it feels like to have coffee with Sissy Spacek,...
This is a bit what it feels like to have coffee with Sissy Spacek,...
- 10/4/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
If anyone regrets saying that The Old Man and the Gun would be Robert Redford’s last movie, it’s undoubtedly Robert Redford — if only because that seems to have become the focus of media coverage of the film rather than the film itself, much to his frustration. Nonetheless, it was this feeling of saying goodbye to that part of his life that fueled the veteran actor’s desire to play real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker. As Fox Searchlight Pictures notes, “In the early 1980s, at a septuagenarian age, Tucker embarked on a final legend-making spree of heists with the ‘Over-the-Hill Gang,’ a posse of elderly bandits who employed smooth charm over aggression to make off with millions. Tucker never stopped defying age, expectations, or rules — he made his twilight the pinnacle of his life of crime. If the sole art form he knew was robbery, he was darned if...
- 10/2/2018
- by Ed Gross
- Closer Weekly
Initially, David Lowery’s adaptation of David Grann’s New Yorker article about 78-year-old bank robber Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) were closer to the real-life story of the man who escaped prison 16 times. While Tucker tried to be the charming gentleman robber Redford would portray him as in Lowery’s “The Old Man and the Gun,” in reality his notorious “Over the Hill Gang” was made up of 20-30 hardened criminals involved with drug-running and murder. After getting a chance to spend time with and direct Redford in “Pete’s Dragon,” Lowery dramatically changed his approach.
“After I did ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ I realized there is no way to get away from Robert Redford in some shape or form being Robert Redford, whether he likes it or not,” said Lowery as a guest on IndieWire’s Toolkit Podcast. “He carries with him the accumulated history of everything he has done...
“After I did ‘Pete’s Dragon,’ I realized there is no way to get away from Robert Redford in some shape or form being Robert Redford, whether he likes it or not,” said Lowery as a guest on IndieWire’s Toolkit Podcast. “He carries with him the accumulated history of everything he has done...
- 10/2/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
While “Fahrenheit 11/9” wasn’t was box office analysts expected, this weekend saw The Year of the Documentary strike again with the arrival of National Geographic’s “Free Solo” in the indie box office, and with it, a new per screen average record for docs.
Telling the story of climber Alex Hannold’s quest to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without any equipment, the thrilling, critically-acclaimed doc earned $300,804 from its four screen release, earning a per screen average of $75,201. That breaks the 12-year PSA record for documentaries held by “An Inconvenient Truth,” which had a starting average of $70,333. It’s also the best PSA of 2018, beating the $63,000 average of A24’s “Eighth Grade.”
On the feature side, Fox Searchlight, which released Best Picture winner “The Shape of Water” last winter, made a return to the indie charts with “The Old Man & The Gun,” which features the final acting performance of the legendary Robert Redford.
Telling the story of climber Alex Hannold’s quest to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without any equipment, the thrilling, critically-acclaimed doc earned $300,804 from its four screen release, earning a per screen average of $75,201. That breaks the 12-year PSA record for documentaries held by “An Inconvenient Truth,” which had a starting average of $70,333. It’s also the best PSA of 2018, beating the $63,000 average of A24’s “Eighth Grade.”
On the feature side, Fox Searchlight, which released Best Picture winner “The Shape of Water” last winter, made a return to the indie charts with “The Old Man & The Gun,” which features the final acting performance of the legendary Robert Redford.
- 9/30/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Robert Redford reunites with Pete’s Dragon filmmaker David Lowery with The Old Man & The Gun. The picture, which is based on the true story of stickup artist Forrest Tucker (Redford), is the actor’s final acting role. After years of putting in seminal work in The Sting, The Electric Horseman, Brubaker, and most recently All [...]
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- 9/30/2018
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
“Night Schoolâ€. is kicking off its box office run with top marks.
The Universal film starring Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart is on its way to an estimated $26 million from 3,010 North American sites to land at No. 1, though the debut of Warner Bros.’ animated “Smallfootâ€. is close behind with $23 million from 4,131 domestic locations.
“Night Schoolâ€. stars Hart as a man who must get his Ged after facing job stagnation, with Haddish as his unconventional teacher. Rob Riggle, Taran Killam, Romany Malco, Keith David, and Loretta Devine also star in the comedy, which was directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film is sitting at a 30% Rotten Tomatoes score and 60% audience score, and received a A- CinemaScore. Writing credits include Hart, Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, Matt Kellard, Nicholas Stoller, and John Hamburg. “Night Schoolâ€. earned about $9 million on Friday.
Meanwhile, “Smallfoot,â€. which features a star-studded voice cast including Channing Tatum, Zendaya, James Corden,...
The Universal film starring Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart is on its way to an estimated $26 million from 3,010 North American sites to land at No. 1, though the debut of Warner Bros.’ animated “Smallfootâ€. is close behind with $23 million from 4,131 domestic locations.
“Night Schoolâ€. stars Hart as a man who must get his Ged after facing job stagnation, with Haddish as his unconventional teacher. Rob Riggle, Taran Killam, Romany Malco, Keith David, and Loretta Devine also star in the comedy, which was directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film is sitting at a 30% Rotten Tomatoes score and 60% audience score, and received a A- CinemaScore. Writing credits include Hart, Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, Matt Kellard, Nicholas Stoller, and John Hamburg. “Night Schoolâ€. earned about $9 million on Friday.
Meanwhile, “Smallfoot,â€. which features a star-studded voice cast including Channing Tatum, Zendaya, James Corden,...
- 9/29/2018
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
Legendary actor Robert Redford is reportedly retiring from acting after “The Old Man and the Gun,” which opened on September 28. He stars in the film as real-life bank-robber Forrest Tucker, a career criminal who spent his life robbing banks, getting arrested and escaping prison. Rinse and repeat. Is this film a fitting farewell for the man whose career breakthrough came almost 50 years ago in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969)?
As of this writing “Old Man” has a MetaCritic score of 81 and an 89% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Tomatometer critical consensus calls it “a well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast” and a “pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans — and a fitting farewell to a legend.” It’s the “best film yet” by director David Lowery, who previously helmed “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (2013), “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) and “A Ghost Story” (2017).
As for Redford, he exhibits “brilliant,...
As of this writing “Old Man” has a MetaCritic score of 81 and an 89% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Tomatometer critical consensus calls it “a well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast” and a “pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans — and a fitting farewell to a legend.” It’s the “best film yet” by director David Lowery, who previously helmed “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (2013), “Pete’s Dragon” (2016) and “A Ghost Story” (2017).
As for Redford, he exhibits “brilliant,...
- 9/28/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Director, producer, actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford is apparently closing out one area of his impressive resume with the opening of The Old Man & the Gun, which played at the recent Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Also starring Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek, the title by writer-director David Lowery opens in limited release this weekend en route to hundreds of locations next month via Fox Searchlight. Fellow Telluride and Toronto title, Free Solo, from Meru filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, also makes its bow in a busy weekend of new Specialty roll outs with a film that records of feat of human endurance from National Geographic Documentary Film and Greenwich Entertainment.
The Orchard is opening All About Nina, the feature directorial debut of Raising Victor Vargas writer, Eva Vives in New York and L.A. ahead of an expansion to hundreds of theaters. Neon is launching...
The Orchard is opening All About Nina, the feature directorial debut of Raising Victor Vargas writer, Eva Vives in New York and L.A. ahead of an expansion to hundreds of theaters. Neon is launching...
- 9/28/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Redford's final performance in The Old Man & the Gun is a sweet bookend to a movie star iconography that began with the Sundance Kid.
Sometimes an actor is cast because their performance will be so immersive that they’ll vanish into the role, and other times they’re cast because there is no role, only a mark for a movie star persona to hit. But in rare instances, the movie star persona, or rather the legend around it, is the role. The performance is to embrace that mythology, if not necessarily deconstruct it. Robert Redford’s turn in The Old Man & the Gun is such a performance.
A deliberate echo of Redford’s early iconic work, Old Man acts as a bookend to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the George Roy Hill film that turned Redford into a movie star in 1969. In both pictures, Redford...
Sometimes an actor is cast because their performance will be so immersive that they’ll vanish into the role, and other times they’re cast because there is no role, only a mark for a movie star persona to hit. But in rare instances, the movie star persona, or rather the legend around it, is the role. The performance is to embrace that mythology, if not necessarily deconstruct it. Robert Redford’s turn in The Old Man & the Gun is such a performance.
A deliberate echo of Redford’s early iconic work, Old Man acts as a bookend to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the George Roy Hill film that turned Redford into a movie star in 1969. In both pictures, Redford...
- 9/27/2018
- Den of Geek
"He was sort of...a gentleman," says a nonplussed bank teller to an inquiring cop in the aftermath of a robbery. Forrest Tucker is the gentleman she’s talking about, an ‘old man’ who happens to also be movie legend Robert Redford. In his smart blue suit and trilby hat, Forrest always comes dressed for the occasion, and when women cry during the heist, he does his best to comfort them. For Redford, who personifies mythic movie Americana in his lined face, this outlaw romanticism is perfect. If you’re searching for blood lust, fatalism, or the darker parts of the soul in the crime narrative of The Old Man and The Gun, you’ll be searching in the wrong place. In David Lowery’s latest film, the storyline is uncomplicated. It’s based on David Grann’s essay for The New Yorker about real septuagenarian bank robber Forrest Tucker.
- 9/27/2018
- MUBI
In The Old Man & the Gun, Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a true-life outlaw who spent most of his 84 years robbing banks or biding time in prison, always on the lookout for the first opportunity to escape. Set in 1981, the film finds Tucker in his early 70s, living in Texas and pulling off a string of heists throughout the South. He and his partners, played here by Danny Glover and Tom Waits, became known to authorities as the “Over-the-Hill Gang,” and their m.o.–efficient robberies, executed politely and with style–became legendary. “That was when I was a really […]...
- 9/27/2018
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In The Old Man & the Gun, Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a true-life outlaw who spent most of his 84 years robbing banks or biding time in prison, always on the lookout for the first opportunity to escape. Set in 1981, the film finds Tucker in his early 70s, living in Texas and pulling off a string of heists throughout the South. He and his partners, played here by Danny Glover and Tom Waits, became known to authorities as the “Over-the-Hill Gang,” and their m.o.–efficient robberies, executed politely and with style–became legendary. “That was when I was a really […]...
- 9/27/2018
- by Darren Hughes
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun is a tender swan song for Robert Redford, a nostalgic look back at the outlaw characters played by him in the 60s and 70s through the lens of the real-life Forrest Tucker, a career bank robber that hit hundreds of banks and broke out of dozens of prisons in his lifetime. We sat down with the generous, unassuming Lowery to discuss the joy and melancholy of writing the film and working with Redford, as well as his own personal favorite Redford films, and tricky emotional attachment to Tucker and his story.
The Film Stage: There’s an unspoken melancholy that hangs over The Old Man & the Gun, not dissimilar from your previous feature A Ghost Story, in that there’s a collective acknowledgement of the passage of time—especially inherent here in seeing an aged Robert Redford walk through a...
The Film Stage: There’s an unspoken melancholy that hangs over The Old Man & the Gun, not dissimilar from your previous feature A Ghost Story, in that there’s a collective acknowledgement of the passage of time—especially inherent here in seeing an aged Robert Redford walk through a...
- 9/27/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Sometimes a movie arrives that charms its way into your heart — and The Old Man & the Gun is just such an unassuming, exuberant gift. Only afterwards do you see that its roots go deeper, that its evocation of the past points to an uncertain future. In this self-proclaimed “mostly true story,” Robert Redford — still defining movie-star magnetism at 82 — takes on the role of Forrest Tucker, a real-life bank robber who prides himself on having escaped from prison 16 times. You might call him a “gentleman bandit,” since he’s unfailingly polite to those he robs.
- 9/26/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Saying goodbye isn’t easy. If we’re lucky, we are afforded one last chance to share time with them in ways that matter. Although Robert Redford will be alive for years after the lights dim on his film career, he’s given his fans a chance to say goodbye to Robert Redford the actor with David Lowery’s latest film, “The Old Man & the Gun,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last month.
Stephen King once wrote about being a writer, “I was being paid to do what I loved, and there’s no gig on earth better than that; it’s like a license to steal.” In what he has said will be his last film performance, Redford plays real-life bank robber and serial prison escapee Forrest Tucker. This story may not carry the same weight as, say, movies where the characters have to make “one...
Stephen King once wrote about being a writer, “I was being paid to do what I loved, and there’s no gig on earth better than that; it’s like a license to steal.” In what he has said will be his last film performance, Redford plays real-life bank robber and serial prison escapee Forrest Tucker. This story may not carry the same weight as, say, movies where the characters have to make “one...
- 9/26/2018
- by Sasha Stone
- The Wrap
When writer-director David Lowery set out to make his new film “The Old Man & the Gun,” a true-crime story starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, he quickly chose Fort Worth, Texas, as a primary location.
Redford plays real-life professional criminal Forrest Tucker, who claimed to have successfully escaped from prison 18 times. The actor, now 82, has said that this may well be the film that caps his long career.
Lowery says shooting in Fort Worth “made perfect sense.” The action “all took place there, and the real Forrest Tucker was based there at the height of his bank-robbery career,” he says. “It also feels older than nearby Dallas, and has that sense of the West, so aesthetically it was just right. We didn’t even consider anywhere else.”
Lowery describes Fort Worth as “a great resource, if maybe a bit under the radar and underappreciated by filmmakers in general.” He...
Redford plays real-life professional criminal Forrest Tucker, who claimed to have successfully escaped from prison 18 times. The actor, now 82, has said that this may well be the film that caps his long career.
Lowery says shooting in Fort Worth “made perfect sense.” The action “all took place there, and the real Forrest Tucker was based there at the height of his bank-robbery career,” he says. “It also feels older than nearby Dallas, and has that sense of the West, so aesthetically it was just right. We didn’t even consider anywhere else.”
Lowery describes Fort Worth as “a great resource, if maybe a bit under the radar and underappreciated by filmmakers in general.” He...
- 9/26/2018
- by Iain Blair
- Variety Film + TV
There’s something wonderfully satisfying about watching Robert Redford go out in style, as only Redford can, in his final performance as the charming, real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker in “The Old Man & the Gun.” It’s a fitting, elderly bookend to “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” and a summary of Redford’s iconic, inimitable stature as an 82-year-old movie star.
Known for being a laconic actor, however, Redford ends his career on a more loquacious note. That’s because the highlight of “The Old Man & the Gun” is his romantic rapport with sassy widow Jewel, played by Sissy Spacek. Good thing director David Lowery chose editor Lisa Zeno Churgin (Oscar nominee for “The Cider House Rules”). She’s known for her adeptness at cutting long dialogue scenes, and is at her best with two memorable exchanges between Redford and Spacek in a diner and on a porch.
Known for being a laconic actor, however, Redford ends his career on a more loquacious note. That’s because the highlight of “The Old Man & the Gun” is his romantic rapport with sassy widow Jewel, played by Sissy Spacek. Good thing director David Lowery chose editor Lisa Zeno Churgin (Oscar nominee for “The Cider House Rules”). She’s known for her adeptness at cutting long dialogue scenes, and is at her best with two memorable exchanges between Redford and Spacek in a diner and on a porch.
- 9/25/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Over the course of a long career Robert Redford has cemented his status as a living legend. Not just a great actor, but a strong filmmaker as well. Then, there’s the fact that he’s the reason why the Sundance Film Festival actually exists. Redford has done it all, even winning an Academy Award. Recently, Redford announced he was retiring, even if he sort of walked that back in days prior. If he’s to be believed, this is it. One more film. This week, that film opens in The Old Man & the Gun, a fun and light drama that perfectly utilizes the man. The movie is a charming crime caper/character study, if you can believe it. This is the plot synopsis that Fox Searchlight has put out into the world: “Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San...
- 9/25/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Teaming up with Robert Redford for the first time on the silver screen, Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek admits she succumbed to the actor’s legendary movie star charm and good looks during filming.
Speaking about her role as the sweet, grounded love interest of Redford’s character, Forrest Tucker, in the crime-comedy-drama The Old Man & the Gun at The New York Times’ TimesTalks Friday, Spacek revealed that writer-director David Lowery had to nudge her back to reality in one scene.
The Old Man and the Gun at the Paris Theater in Manhattan" />
“I thought it was easy from the beginning,...
Speaking about her role as the sweet, grounded love interest of Redford’s character, Forrest Tucker, in the crime-comedy-drama The Old Man & the Gun at The New York Times’ TimesTalks Friday, Spacek revealed that writer-director David Lowery had to nudge her back to reality in one scene.
The Old Man and the Gun at the Paris Theater in Manhattan" />
“I thought it was easy from the beginning,...
- 9/22/2018
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
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