David Lowery's next bank robbery venture, based on a 2003 New Yorker article. Currently undergoing production in Ohio, which he's beginning to sporadically post on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/BR6P5Mbg1PM/?taken-by=davidpatricklowery)
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An elderly bank robber, who had managed to escape from prison over a dozen times in his life before moving to a retirement community, looks to spice things up with another heist.
Cast:
Robert Redford
Casey Affleck
Elisabeth Moss
Sissy Spacek
Tika Sumpter
Tom Waits
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Would anyone happen to have access to the article? I'm considering buying a subscription to read it.
not only ohio but southern ohio, a.k.a. exactly where i'm from. literally wrote a book about it. so that feels cool in that way that it does.
here's what i have from the article, let's get it all and post it like animals
QuoteThe Old Man and the Gun
Grann, David, The New Yorker
Just before Forrest Tucker turned seventy-nine, he went to work for the last time. Although he was still a striking-looking man, with intense blue eyes and swept-back white hair, he had a growing list of ailments, including high blood pressure and burning ulcers. He had already had a quadruple bypass, and his wife encouraged him to settle into their home in Pompano Beach, Florida, a peach-colored house on the edge of a golf course which they'd purchased for their retirement. There was a place nearby where they could eat prime rib and dance on Saturday nights with other seniors for $15.50 a person, and even a lake where Tucker could sit by the shore and practice his saxophone.
But on this spring day in 1999, while his neighbors were on the fairway or tending to their grandchildren, he drove to the Republic Security Bank in Jupi- ter, about fifty miles from his home. Tucker, who took pride in his appearance, was dressed all in white: white pants with a sharp crease, a white sports shirt, white suede shoes, and a shimmering white ascot.
He paused briefly in front of the A.T.M. and pulled the ascot up around his face, bandit style. He then reached into a canvas bag, took out an old U.S. Army Colt .45, and burst into the bank. He went up to the first teller and said, "Put your money on the counter. All of it."
He flashed the gun so that everyone could see it. The teller laid several packets of fives and twenties on the counter, and Tucker inspected them for exploding dye packs. Checking his watch, he turned to the next teller and said, "Get over here. You, too."
Then he gathered up the thick packets--more than five thousand dollars--and hurried to the door. On his way out, he looked back at the two tellers. "Thank you," he said. "Thank you."
He drove to a nearby lot, where he had left a "safe" car, a red Grand Am that couldn't be traced to him. After wiping down the stolen "hot" car with a rag, he threw his belongings inside the Grand Am. They included a .357 Magnum, a sawed-off .30 carbine, two black nylon caps, a holster, a can of Mace, a pair of Smith & Wesson handcuffs, two rolls of black electrical tape, a po- lice badge, five AAA batteries, a po- lice scanner, a glass cutter, gloves, and a fishing cap. There was also a small bottle of medicine for his heart. No one seemed to notice him, and he went home, making what appeared to be a clean getaway.
After a brief stop to count the money, he got back in the car and headed out again. As he approached the golf course, the bills neatly stacked beside him, he noticed an unmarked car on his tail. He turned onto another street, just to make sure. There it was again. Then he spotted a police car pulling out behind him. He hit the gas as hard as he could, trying to outmaneuver them, turning left, then right, right, then left. He went past the North Pompano Baptist Church and the Kraeer Funeral Home, past a row of pink one-story houses with speedboats in the driveways, until he found himself on a dead-end street. As he spun around, he saw that a police car was barricading the road. One of the officers, Captain James Chinn, was reaching for his shotgun. There was a small gap between Chinn's car and a wooden fence, and Tucker, his body pitched forward in his seat, sped toward it. Chinn, who had spent almost two decades as a detective, later said he had never seen anything like it: the white-haired figure barrelling toward him seemed to be smiling, as if he were enjoying the showdown. Then, as the car skidded over the embankment, Tucker lost control and hit a palm tree. The air bags inflated, pinning him against the seat.
The police were stunned when they realized that the man they had apprehended was not only seventy-eight years old--he looked, according to Chinn, "as if he had just come from an Early Bird Special"--but one of the most notorious stickup men of the twentieth century. Over a career that spanned more than six decades, he had also become perhaps the greatest escape artist of his generation, a human contortionist who had broken out of nearly every prison he was confined in. ...
imdb:
Directed by
David Lowery
Writing Credits
David Grann ... (based on an article by)
David Lowery ... (screenplay)
Music by
Daniel Hart
Cinematography by
Joe Anderson (Simon Killer; 2nd unit ATBS)
Film Editing by
Lisa Zeno Churgin (Pete's Dragon)
Production Design by
Scott Kuzio (Christine, Listen Up Philip)
Carl Paoli ... stunt double: Tom Waits
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imdb trivia says: Filmed in Dayton, Ohio a.k.a Gem City and the city i grew up next to. it's about an hour from Cincinnati, where i usually hear listed
it still trips me out where this was shot. just what are the odds kind of thing. the world isn't so big after all kind of thing.
it's listed as "Completed" at imdb. Fox Searchlight has it. wiki has the release date as December 14, 2018. um is that a release date for oscar hopes? oh idk. here's an adorable news items about the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43HudnE2C0
so okay that's been covered. when Strange Angel is arriving is what i want to know now, since i told my roommate that'll be the next tv show i'll watch with him. i have no idea when Strange Angel is arriving.
I'm still hoping for a last minute announcement from Frémaux.
"Lars Von Trier...Persona Grata! and...David Lowery!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rlUe-Thvk
In Theaters September 28, 2018
Niiiiiiice.
And here is the teaser poster:
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Jesus Christ that trailer brought tears to my eyes. It looks so wonderful in every way! Ghostboy you're a fucking legend.
it's cool to me that his artistic reputation is flowering and that on top of that he has clear compatibility with the human condition, which is to say he has a kind heart. it feels good when good things happen to good people
Fuckin' Ghostboy, man....
I believe this had the same First AD as You Were Never Really Here, Thomas "Dutch" Deckaj (sp?) Nice dude with a great gnarly beard with whom I once shared a brief but joyous burst of Nick Cave enthusiasm which he likely wouldn't remember but clearly meant a lot to me. Color this my new most anticipated of 2018.
Cannot wait to see that. And what a great trailer too.
Very pumped for this, and I have a wild anecdote to boot,
Sometime in mid-2016, I met this guy at an open mic that I host, and he said his name was Nate Lowery. He's a great songwriter/performer etc, and he mentioned that he moved here from Texas.
Throughout the time I've known him, he's mentioned that his brother is a filmmaker, but we never really got too far into that, we'd just end up discussing specific films or music.
Anyhow, fast forward to today, and Nate posted on FB, "check out my brother's new film coming out soon."
Turns out he's Ghostboy's brother. Wild.
Xixception.
Unbelievable. Ghostboy is killing it.
But wait is no one going to talk about those whip-pans!? What kind of PTA fan site is this?
Quote from: ©brad on June 10, 2018, 11:47:32 AMBut wait is no one going to talk about those whip-pans!? What kind of PTA fan site is this?
Not only whip pans, but whip pans combined with dolly-ins. And a blue suit!
had to do it.
3 1/2 stars at Ebert.com
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-old-man-and-the-gun-2018 (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-old-man-and-the-gun-2018)
QuoteLowery and his team, especially cinematographer Joe Anderson and composer Daniel Hart, give "The Old Man & the Gun" a very period-heavy feel. It's a movie that doesn't just take place in a different era—the true story unfolds, mostly, in 1981—but feels like it was made in a different era too. The film stock, the music choices, the cinematic language—it's all very different from what we're accustomed to in 2018, enhancing the magical, timeless aspect of the entire project. It's as cheesy as it sounds but this is one of those movies for which the phrase "they don't make 'em like that any more" was invented.
this is sloppy writing but enhances a point i've made and am continuing to build. okay so he calls it "very period-heavy" then says "feels like it was made in a different era" then says "the magical, timeless aspect of the entire project."
what i'm saying is these aren't period movies that Lowery makes, but dreamscape movies. which is the conclusion this critic reaches toward the end of his paragraph. it reminds people of this/that but frankly they weren't ever quite made in this exact way, and The Lowery Touch is unique to itself, a rare bird specimen.
Ultimately roughly two-thirds of the shooting took place in Ohio, but enough was shot in Fort Worth to make the movie feel "authentically Texan," according to Lowery. (https://variety.com/2018/film/production/robert-redford-old-man-and-the-gun-2-1202955090/)
damn. well fuck, he is a Texan after all
I believe they shot in the old bank across the street from my old office in Fort Worth; we're now a couple of blocks away. Also a buddy told me he's a featured extra in this. I still have yet to meet GB in person.
I saw him at a Q & A for A Ghost Story last summer but was too shy/blown away by his movie to approach. Also sent him a gushing slightly drunken email a few years back singing (slurring) the praises of his short gem Pioneer (one of my favorites), and he responded in a very lovely and gracious fashion. Seems like a solid dude. Of course he's always loomed large round these parts. His blog "Drifting" (which sadly I don't believe exists anymore) was fundamental to my development as a person/cinephile/artist/cool-aspirer.
for me there's been some this/that but my most significant memory comes from the last half of 2004, when i was living with my mother in a Laguna Niguel apartment, and he was in his parents' basement--it was Still (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378807/) that i had seen recently i believe, although i don't recall what started our messaging, my guess is that i had started it, and what i remember is we agreeing to keep following our dreams, since in that time it was, you know, we were the only ones betting on us, and i'll be gee-wizz damned if his dream didn't work out for him. that's cool.
Is the theater rollout posted anywhere?
I see Sept 28th as the US release, but it doesn't look to be playing in this area.
I would think it would at least get a release akin to something like Hell or High Water, and this is PG-13, so it could appeal to more viewers. You can also add the final Redford performance and critical praise to its benefit.
it surprised me too. it's Fox Searchlight and it's landing in LA at two Arclights, the biggest non-multiplex landings
the thing i hear is old people see movies about younger people but younger people don't see movies about older people; it's an overall less successful age category. those old people are actually a big risk. i hear Waits has a monologue.
Quote from: jenkins on September 27, 2018, 10:01:48 PM
. i hear Waits has a monologue.
If it's anything like Will Oldham's in A Ghost Story, consider me set for life.
I finally met Ghostboy he's real guys he's a real boy
But is he a real ghost though?
Like, beneath the sheet?
source (http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theoldmanandthegun/)
9/28 LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
10/5 AUSTIN BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS-FT. WORTH PHOENIX SAN FRANCISCO WASHINGTON DC TORONTO
10/12 ALBUQUERQUE ANN ARBOR ATLANTA BOCA RATON W. PALM BEACH CHARLOTTE CINCINNATI CLEVELAND COLUMBUS DAYTON DENVER DETROIT HARTFORD NEW HAVEN HOUSTON INDIANAPOLIS KANSAS CITY MIAMI FT. LAUDERDALE MILWAUKEE MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS PHILADELPHIA PORTLAND RALEIGH DURHAM CHAPEL HILL SACRAMENTO SALT LAKE SAN DIEGO SAN ANTONIO SANTA FE SEATTLE ST. LOUIS MONTREAL VANCOUVER
'The Old Man & the Gun' Soundtrack, Oct 5 release date (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G21QLCB/)
1. Theme (1:46)
2. The Diner Part One (3:10)
3. The Diner Part Two (1:30)
4. 30 Century Man – Scott Walker (1:26)
5. Three Day Bank (6:41)
6. John and Maureen (2:01)
7. More Happy (1:58)
8. The Over the Hill Gang (2:57)
9. You're Doing a Great Job (3:34)
10. Freeze Sailor (2:05)
11. Two Different Things (2:29)
12. West St. Louis Toodle Oo (1:08)
13. He Must Be Thinking of You (2:03)
14. Keep on Pushin' (3:47)
15. Lola – The Kinks (4:05)
16. Jewels for Jewel (2:16)
17. When You Find Something You Love (2:24)
18. The Gun and The Kiss (2:50)
19. Blues Run the Game – Jackson C. Frank (3:31)
20. Officially Retired (2:16)
21. Rub A Dub Dub (2:34)
22. Samuel Anselm (1:52)
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I could not have loved this more. Run, don't walk, to your local cinema and see this. Ghostboy knocked it out of the park. Probably my fave of the year.
Ahh this was such a blast! Utterly charming and all around wonderful. This film is a celebration of cinema through and through, clearly made by a student of PTA (in the best possible sense).
Ghostboy is doing a Q+A (https://www.landmarktheatres.com/Booking/the-magnolia/7246913) at a screening in Dallas tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend as I'll be having dinner down the street to celebrate a friend's 40th, but I'm going to try to catch an earlier show.
So Ghostboy has done it again. Of course he has. This movie is the perfect autumn movie. It's like your favorite wool jumper, which you wear while reading a book in front of a small wood fire, outside a large window with grey skies outside on a Sunday morning. It's got touches of melancholy and nostalgia, but throughout it is a cheerful, positive, and fun films. The montage of Tucker's escapes is especially touching, amusing, and compelling. I think I had a huge smile across my face for pretty much the duration of the film. I really hope Redford gets over his resistance to campaigning, because it'd be great for this film to serve not only as his final performance, but his final Oscar-winning performance. Bravo!
Ghostboy on The Kodakery podcast:
https://www.kodak.com/corp/podcast/podcastepisode/?contentid=4295010426
Episode 109: The Old Man & the Gun director David Lowery
Director David Lowery joins us this week. He spends time discussing the intricacies of his latest film, The Old Man & the Gun, a film based off of a New Yorker article that was brought to him by Robert Redford. We talk about his preference to be involved with the editing process of all of his films and when he chooses celluloid and why. His passion and joy for filmmaking is unmistakable and is evident in all of his films as well as our conversation with him.
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/the-kodakery/the-old-man-the-gun-director-david-lowery[/soundcloud]
Looks like 1 theater pretty close will get the movie on Oct 26th. None of the chains have this film in the Upcoming Attractions on Fandango, but this is a smaller local chain that has film festivals and will sometimes show stuff like Wes Anderson movies, etc, that don't get wide distribution.
I was thinking about how a lot of this board was really hyped on David Gordon Green with his early arthouse leaning films, and how weird it was that he directed Halloween in 2018 and it may keep Old Man out of some of the multi-screen theaters because it has multiple showings.
Couldn't let this slip away from the big screen before having a go at it, turned out to be a smart move on my part; TOM&tG is special, subsisting on a legend's charisma and the assured vision of a director insistent on presenting new ways of storytelling, paying an artful homage to the outlaw genre and the essence of movies. Unlike the Dude, I was into the whole brevity thing. For a movie featuring mostly over the hill actors, the thing moves fast, a brisk portrait of one interesting fellow that touches on the effects of aging, the passage of time, doing what you love. Caught a handful of nods to PTA, which would enrich any movie. Shooting 16mm was the right choice, that grain left a stamp of nostalgia on the frame. Foresee repeat viewings of this one in the years ahead.
the opening 9:38, available for viewing via awards consideration/home release marketing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIsyeNcwi4
The Blu-Ray is out tomorrow.
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Special features:
Audio Commentary By Writer/Director David Lowery
Everything Else We Shot
Prison Cats
On Filmmaking
31 Wake-Ups
Joining The Hunt
Gallery
groovy
I was able to catch this one -- and yes, it was wonderful! The photography reminds me a lot of Magnolia minus the really long Steadicam sequences, though I don't think this one would be anamorphic if it were shot in 16mm. What I mean is that this film has that gushing sense of celebrating storytelling through the camera and film. There are a lot of magnificent whip pans, closeups on written or typed words, some small push-ins (from what I recall). I was blown away by the 16 escapes sequence, which also resembled a certain beginning from a certain PTA film.
The story itself was really well done; it was brisk yet breezed along and didn't feel rushed. The editing was pretty much perfect and the soundtrack was really nice, which was mostly swing jazz, but other things when it needed to be.
I don't know what the budget was for this film, but I'm guessing it was relatively small. I would just love to see what David Lowery could do with some more money to make a film like this with some expanded subject matter. Could you imagine something that has the artistic sensibilities that this has, but with a longer run time, perhaps an ensemble cast, "heavier" or more mysterious subject matter? Maybe he'd produce something different but no less magnificent. Judging by how good and tightly woven this thing was, I think Lowery could do it, and I certainly hope he gets the chance.