Hell Or High Water

Arrival,' 'fences,' 'hell Or High Water' Nominated For Writers Guild Awards

... Wants Some!” are among the ineligible films in the original-screenplay category, while “Lion” isn’t eligible on the adapted side. On average, three out of five WGA nominees go on to receive Oscar nominations; only once in the last 10 years (and 20 categories) has a category matched exactly. Also Read: How Many Votes Will It Take to Get an Oscar Nomination in 2017. The Writers Guild Awards will take place at simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles on Feb. 19. The Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America, the final two of the four major Hollywood guilds whose nominations are examined closely for clues to Oscar voting, will announce their nominees next week. The nominees. “Hell or High Water,” Written by Taylor Sheridan; CBS Films. “La La Land,” Written by Damien Chazelle; Lionsgate. “Loving,” Written by Jeff Nichols; Focus Features. “Manchester by the Sea,” Written by Kenneth ...

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... 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, intense and witty story. Incredibly, Mackenzie had just two-and-a-half weeks in his schedule to shoot all the sequences involving Foster and Pine; far from detracting from the film, it lends their scenes a desperate, off-the-cuff quality which contrasts with the parts where we join the Texas rangers on their tail. Hell Or High Water astutely reads the temperature of a country riven by political, cultural and financial differences, yet it's also a dryly funny film; one scene in a small town diner, in which the two Texas rangers try to order dinner from a frighteningly impatient elderly waitress ("What ain'tcha gonna have?") may rank among ...

Patriots Day,’ ‘hell Or High Water’ Production Designer Strives For Accuracy

... Marathon bombing of “ Patriots Day ,” yet production designer Tom Duffield approached both stories the same way: He strove for accuracy. This story first appeared in the January 11, 2017 issue of Variety. Subscribe today. See more. Scottish director David Mackenzie looked to Duffield to supply a dusty decor for the modern Western, telling the designer he “didn’t know much about the American West” and was relying on him to “make it right.”. “We actually went on a scout through West Texas to see where Taylor Sheridan based the script,” says Duffield, “but due to a limited budget, producers wanted to shoot in New Mexico [to take advantage of the tax rebate]. I had to figure out how to deliver that same look in an entirely different state.”. The crew shot in a handful of New Mexico towns, including Moriarty, Estancia, Clovis, and Portales, to illustrate the small-town life where two ...

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

... 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 expensive, inoffensive franchise blockbusters. Made on a small budget and released in August, when films like Suicide Squad dominated at the box office, it was one of the surprise successes of the year, and now seems headed for Oscar glory. Related Stories. The Cultural Allure of Bank Robbers. The film’s screenwriter, Taylor Sheridan, also wrote last year’s Sicario, which took a dark, granular look at the bloody ...

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

... (Signature, 15), a grinding, bristling, unwieldy locomotive of a film that has a torrent of things to say, sing and even shout about. Resourcefully relocating Aristophanes’s Lysistrata to the ragged ganglands of Chicago, the film could feel academic in its articulation of modern American racial friction and urban class warfare through its classical prism. Yet it expresses itself entirely, even exhaustingly, from the gut throughout. If it all palls a bit toward the close, it’s not because the film runs out of steam. If anything, its steam runs out of script. Marpessa Dawn, centre, as Eurydice in the ‘throbbing, glittering’ Black Orpheus. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Lopert Pictures. Chi-Raq has an ideal, and ideally timed, double-bill partner in the week’s best rerelease: the Criterion Collection’s gorgeous clean-up of Marcel Camus’s 1959 Palme d’Or winner Black Orpheus (Criterion, 12), a throbbing, glittering reworking of Orpheus and Eurydice set to the bossa nova beat of then-contemporary Rio de Janeiro in carnival heat. Unlike Chi-Raq, the film’s cultural conflicts and ...

We Shouldn’t Reduce Art To Being For Coastal Elites Vs. Trump’s America

... in the mortgage crisis; it turns out that when you spend years paying attention to what’s in the news, your movie can feel prescient simply because it’s alert to the world. To reduce Hell or High Water to a “Trump’s America” movie would be to sell it short. The same holds true for Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea , which portrays a working-class white man beaten down by life who holds a job with no promise of growth or fulfillment. That character resonates not because, post-election, we’re suddenly attuned to guys like him, but because he’s been written as real—Lonergan has thought about who he is, where he lives, what he drinks, how he talks, how he would deal with a tenant who thinks he’s trying to rip him off when he tells him his bathtub needs resealing. Manchester by the Sea feels timely, but I believe it would also have felt timely a year ago or a year from now, because it’s honest. ...

I Saw An Opportunity To Shine A Light On The Raw Nerves Of Contemporary America

... film which has had so many people coming to me and saying how much they like it. It’s incredibly gratifying that it’s been touching people in interesting ways.”. Ben Foster and Chris Pine as brothers Tanner and Toby Howard in ‘Hell or High Water’. As for his awards season prospects, the director is more reticent: “I’ve no idea how to take those kinds of things. I’m very pleased the film is getting recognised so it’s all good. I’m not a particularly competitive guy but it’s nice to know the film has been appreciated and people are responding to it.”. Mackenzie says he chose Hell or High Water as his next project after Starred Up on the strength of Sheridan’s screenplay. “I immediately fell in love with the opportunities the script had. I’d spent a bit of time in west Texas before and so was familiar with the vibe and knew I wanted to make a film in ...

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

... who. I’m not sure what Sheridan means to say about jurisdiction with this trilogy, or whether his message is as simple as “Too many cooks spoil the broth.” Whatever the case, his writing makes for great and shrewdly confusing conflict, setting seeming allies against each other, often at the most inconvenient times. Wind River follows Hell Or High Water in spotlighting the fading culture of Native Americans living on underprivileged reservations, and the new film ups the ante on the theme. Taylor, who acted on network crime shows in his early career, has no compunction about using the compelling structure of tacky TV to hook in viewers, so he can introduce them to his take on the American experience — and its erosion in modern history. But is it any good. Whether it rises to the quality of Sicario or Hell or High Water is arguable, but it’s ...

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

... Sets of 'Hell or High Water'. By Cailey Rizzo. T+L Just In newsletter. T+L Newsletters. “Hell or High Water”—nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Picture—is often likened to a modern, western version of “Robin Hood.” In the film, two brothers in west Texas team up to rob a bank and save their family ranch. But in order to save their production budget, film crew headed to eastern New Mexico, just miles from the Texas border , to shoot. For those who want to relive this old school, western drama, here are the New Mexico spots where the film shot its gunslingin’ fantasies. Clovis, New Mexico. Nicholas Mondragon. The town of Clovis was used for much of the film’s shooting. Much of North Main Street—including a Bill’s Jumbo Burger—was transformed 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 ...