Hell Or High Water

Hell Or High Water' Is An Unsubtle Film For An Unsubtle Year

... written trying to delve into the psyche of Middle America, Hell or High Water did the same while trying to have some fun in the process. This is, first and foremost, a genre film, a neo-Western crossing the angry anti-heroes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with the barren modern Texan landscapes of Friday Night Lights. After their first successful robbery of the day, brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster), clad in ski masks, drive to the next town over to stick up another branch, driving past signs advertising home refinancing and debt relief. At the next bank, Toby and Tanner run into a customer depositing a box of old pennies he found in his barn. “You got a gun on you, old man?” Tanner asks him. “You’re goddamn right I got a gun on me,” he replies with a snarl. As they exit the building with a handful of cash, the customer grabs his revolver and shoots as they flee, firing wildly at their getaway car. It’s a rollicking, telling scene that doesn’t take itself too seriously despite the intense action and high stakes. Moments like these suggest Hell or High Water is a worthy resurrection of Hollywood pulp at a time when “genre filmmaking” largely refers to ...

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... its setting - among shuttered towns of a post-recession east Texas - is unmistakably modern. Its big skies and Stetsons recall old westerns, yet its story feels like a eulogy for a vanishing way of life. Even the casting feels like a nod to both 70 s and contemporary cinema. There are several parallels between Hell Or High Water and Michael Cimino's 1974 thriller Thunderbolt And Lightfoot, not least the casting of Jeff Bridges. In Cimino's film, Bridges stole just about every scene as a live-wire outlaw on the run with Clint Eastwood's seasoned safe cracker. Instead, a much older yet no less charismatic Bridges plays Marcus, a world-weary Texas Ranger on the hunt for the two robbers. The film's wild card is instead played by Foster, who's mesmerising as Tanner, the ex-convict, harebrained bank robber. These are flawless performances in  film full of star turns; look out, too, for Gil Birmingham's effortless turn as Bridges' longsuffering partner, Alberto. Like Thunderbolt And Lightfoot or any number of dramas and thrillers, Hell Or High Water's first and foremost a character piece, and it's great to see a group of fine actors let loose on such a thought-provoking, ...

Hell Or High Water; Julieta; Chi-raq; Black Orpheus; Miss Sharon Jones

... it rattles along on its own sense of danger. But execution is all here, from the hungry, rumbling performances of Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster and a never better Chris Pine to the literate regional sting of Sheridan’s dialogue and the gliding, no-nonsense shooting of that cornbread locale. Sometimes it’s good to know exactly what you’re getting. Emma Suárez in the ‘gloriously scored melodrama’ of Julieta. And then, of course, it more often isn’t, which brings us to Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta (Pathé, 15), an entirely lovely surprise in disguise. It has all the outward trappings, the poster-paint colouring and the open, fragrant feminine sympathies that we eagerly expect from Spain’s most singular modern auteur. But unpeel its exquisite tissue-paper wrapping and this split-level character study is an Almodóvar film that moves and feels ...

How 'hell Or High Water' Writer Taylor Sheridan Turned Failure Into Art

... writing or went to film school. He learned how to write screenplays from being a TV actor on series like “CSI,” “Sons of Anarchy,” and “Veronica Mars.” He set out to make a “buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,” he said. “For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you’re watching, but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you’ve seen it.”. See More ‘Hell or High Water’ Stars Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine Reveal Why the Film Hits Hard in 2016 — Video Interview. Next up: Sheridan is writing a remake of the French film “Disorder” for Sony and launches his directorial debut “Wind River” at Sundance. Sheridan compared the structure and form of his modern western to “Sicario,” particularly in the way that it follows its characters’ struggles. “I wanted ‘Hell or High Water’ to feel like a road movie and an exciting fun film — until it’s not,” Sheridan said. On the genesis of his ideas: “I had a one-year-old son,” he said. “How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write ...

A Piece Of This China-engineered Paper Can Survive Hell Or High Water

... China-engineered paper can survive hell or high water. China science. A piece of this China-engineered paper can survive hell or high water. Researchers in Shanghai say it’s the first time paper has been produced that can resist both heat and water. PUBLISHED : Monday, 23 January, 2017, 9:00 am. UPDATED : Monday, 23 January, 2017, 9:00 am. China opposes space arms race, but missions ‘must aid national security’. 27 Dec 2016. Scientists on the mainland – where paper was first made about 2,000 years ago – say they have developed a new form of the material that is fire and water-resistant. A research team at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics added a form of calcium called hydroxyapatite, found in animal tooth enamel and bone, to change the structure of paper and give it special properties. The researchers are ...

La La Land' Scores Whopping 14 Nominations

... 'Moonlight,' 'Arrival' and 'Hell or High Water' picked up multiple nods. 2017 Oscars: 'La La Land' Scores Whopping 14 Nominations. All Stories. La La Land  racked up 14 Oscar nominations, tying a record set by Titanic and All About Eve, while Moonlight, Arrival and Hell or High Water  also scoring multiple nods as the contenders for the 2017 Academy Awards were announced this morning. 'La La Land': How a Young Filmmaker Resurrected the Hollywood Musical. Inside the story of how director Damien Chazelle and two movie stars attempted to modernize the genre – and made the movie of the year. All three were among the nine nominated for Best Picture, a list that also included, Hidden Figures , Lion , Hacksaw Ridge , Fences  and Manchester By the Sea. The directors for La La Land, Arrival and Moonlight – Damien Chazelle, Denis Villeneuve and Barry Jenkins – also received nods, along with Hacksaw Ridge's Mel Gibson and Manchester By the Sea's Kenneth Lonergan. La La Land stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling will attempt to repeat their ...

Hell Or High Water’ Rises To The Top Of List For Best Films Of ‘16

... moment her best friend starts dating her older brother. USA TODAY NETWORK. 3 of 6. WATCH: MARK HINSON'S PICK OF TOP FILMS OF 2016 Trailer: 'Deadpool' | 2:31. Ryan Reynolds stars as a masked antihero in 'Deadpool.' 20 th Century Fox. 4 of 6. WATCH: MARK HINSON'S PICK OF TOP FILMS OF 2016 Trailer: 'Moonlight' | 1:48. 'Moonlight' follows a young man's struggle to find himself while growing up in a dysfunctional home and tough neighborhood. 5 of 6. WATCH: MARK HINSON'S PICK OF TOP FILMS OF 2016 Trailer: 'Green Room' | 1:19. Members of a punk rock band find themselves held hostage in a dive bar's green room after witnessing a crime. Patrick Stewart plays the club owner, a white supremacist who will stop at nothing to make sure the rockers don't make it out alive. VPC. 6 of 6. Trailer: Hell or High Water. Trailer: 'Manchester by the Sea'. Trailer: The Edge of Seventeen. Trailer: 'Deadpool'. Trailer: 'Moonlight'. Trailer: 'Green Room'. Chris Pine plays a West Texas farmer who goes on a bank-robbing crime spree in “Hell or High Water.”. (Photo: CBS Films). Pssst. Don’t tell anyone else but the critically drooled-upon “La La Land” musical is kind of ...

How To Visit The Real-life New Mexico Sets Of 'hell Or High Water

... into West Texas. And two of the town’s buildings were transformed into banks waiting to be robbed. Portales, New Mexico. Film crews took over a few blocks of downtown Portales. Efrain Padro / Alamy. The city has an impressive collection of historic architecture still standing—including the Yam Theatre, which was one of the most modern in the nation when it opened in 1926. Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari is an essential stop for anyone traveling down Route 66. The town—with a population of about 6,000 people—shut down a few blocks along the route last year for filming. miroslav_1/Getty Images. The town is packed with old Americana signage and buildings that look straight out of dust bowl days. Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Route 66 Casino and Hotel in Albuquerque stands in for the casino in the film (which is supposed to be in Oklahoma). Robert Alexander/Getty Images. ...

Wind River Is A Thrilling, Violent Finale To The Hell Or High Water And Sicario Trilogy

... Olsen as the inexperienced FBI agent assigned to the case, Wind River is a slow-burn thriller that flip-flops between meticulous noir and philosophically boorish procedural. Sundance Film Festival 2017. Coen Brothers noir meets the case of the week. What's it about. While tracking a mountain lion feasting on local livestock, “predator hunter” for hire Cory Lambert (Renner) spots the corpse of an 18-year-old woman who appears to have been raped and left for dead. Having lost a daughter of his own under similar circumstances, Lambert agrees to help an out-of-her-element FBI agent (Olsen) scout the reservation, knock on doors, navigate the mountain, and as a favor to the victim’s father, dish out justice to whomever is to blame. The unraveling mystery is enlivened by a couple of exceptionally violent, thrillingly staged gun battles and some stunning photography of the snow-caked mountainsides. It’s beautiful and compelling, but perhaps a fraction of the energy expended on ...