Robert Redford has been in heist movies before, so for his final role on screen, filmmaker David Lowery created a film that subverts the heist genre while paying homage to the Redford we've grown up watching. The Old Man and the Gun, which comes out in theaters this weekend, is the mostly true story of Forrest Tucker, a real-life charming bank robber who, at the age of 76, had pulled off more than 80 robberies. Redford plays Tucker, and filmmaker David Lowery pulls from Redford’s career of charming on-screen leading men (sometimes even literally, pulling a clip of young Robert from The Chase for a sequence, edited by Lisa Zeno Churgin.) David Lowery, who shifts between editor, indie filmmaker, and Disney blockbuster director, realized he wanted to tell a heist story that turned the tables on audience expectations. The result is a deliberately delightful Super 16mm "Cops & Robbers" flick that’s as warm as it is bittersweet—a rumination on the point of life where one direction is a lifetime of memories and the other is the unknown. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 28 September, 2018