‘Old Henry’ Film Review: Tim Blake Nelson Is a Reluctant Hero in Intimate Western Gem

a word pointedly never mentioned in this documentary) coupled with a broader Christian revival of baby boomers entering adulthood, was enough of an overground phenomenon to make the cover of Time magazine. The opposition, what little existed, came from established older clergy who rejected the formal elements of the music itself, since Protestant churches in the United States had been pointedly against rock and roll.

Carl Dreyer film (Coen’s clearest stylistic influence for the severity of this adaptation).

riot tonight,” says the girlfriend of numbers runner Harold (Leslie Odom Jr.), right before the Newark riots of 1967 start. Worse than this is the scene where baby Christopher cries whenever he sees his uncle Tony and an older female family member says the infant might know something they don’t.The new characters are all one-dimensional, and we learn nothing new about the old characters from the series.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThis year’s Tokyo International Film Festival will give gala positions to two American movies. Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho” has been set as the opening night title and will play on Oct.

For over two decades, it’s felt as if Clint Eastwood has been saying goodbye. Starting with “Unforgiven,” a film that could almost be seen as the last western, he’s spent the better part of his late period ruminating on his place in all of this.

Christopher Vourlias More than 60 years after the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into orbit with the launch of its Sputnik satellite, a new space race is heating up between the two rivals.

federales, and take refuge in a dusty border town. There, they’re befriended by a restaurant owner (Natalia Traven), who takes a shine to Mike, and find work breaking wild mustangs and tending to wounded farm animals. For all its Western trappings, “Cry Macho” is gentle at its core.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAt 91, Clint Eastwood still knows how to direct a movie with a nice, clean leisurely classical sparseness, something you wish more directors knew how to do (or wanted to). As a filmmaker, Eastwood has earned the right to be called ageless.

Clint Eastwood received a star-studded tribute ahead of the release of his upcoming film "Cry Macho." Director Steven Spielberg along with actors Mel Gibson, Hilary Swank and others honored Eastwood, 91, in a featurette released by Warner Bros.

Surprisingly, in this era of revisionist Westerns, writer/director Potsy Ponciroli delivers a throwback in the form of an old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes Western by-numbers with the humble ambitions that give it a B-movie ambience. The set-up is spare, and events are predictable; it’s almost like an exercise in stripped-back storytelling.

Jamie Lang VMI Worldwide has closed several major territory sales for western “Old Henry” from Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures. Sales buzz reached its fever pitch as the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday evening.So far, VMI has closed deals in Italy (Blue Swan), the U.K.

Character actor Tim Blake Nelson may have found his niche in memorable turns recalling the heyday when Westerns ruled the roost in Hollywood. Or at least in Venice, where this film festival once again has shown a fondness for the star in a genre that rarely gets much of a closeup anymore.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTim Blake Nelson is a highly skilled and versatile actor (not to mention a terrific director), but for years now there has been one character he owns: the yokel, the snaggletoothed redneck runt, the leering hillbilly bumpkin who never met a big vocabulary word he didn’t like to chew on like tobacco.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticUntil watching Kenneth Branagh’s wistfully autobiographical “Belfast,” I don’t think I realized that one of Britain’s greatest living actors — a talent who’s embodied everything from Henry V to Hercule Poirot, Kurt Wallander to Laurence Olivier — had been born in Northern Ireland.

has happened – would be some kind of spoiler. But it would be a stretch to tell you to relax, that all will be revealed, because it won’t, not everything.