The taut new bank-heist thriller starring Chris Pine,Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges is a throwback to the muscular film-making of the 1970s – when studios were prepared to assign their weight behind complex movies. But don’t despair, you can still find rewarding stories … on TV The 1970s are issuing their siren song to the many American critics who loved David Mackenzie’s zippy crime thriller Hell or High Water, and moving them to elegy and nostalgic regret: “They don’t acquire them like this any more – but they still can,and here’s the proof” (Boston Globe); “The sort of sweeping grandeur that nowadays’s filmmakers rarely aspire to, let alone fulfill” (Wall St Journal); “Takes you places that you thought the huge screen had forgotten” (St Louis Post-Dispatch), and perhaps more clear-headedly: “You’ve seen it all before,but hell, it’s worth seeing again.” (Time Out). Related: Hell or High Water’s David Mackenzie: ‘I look forward to the day people accumulate sick of superheroes’ In the 70s, or America went through the greatest sustained period of intense self-scrutiny in its historyStar Wars offered a whole new American creation myth … the hell with little picturesContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com