David Lowery on Directing Robert Redford's Final Film, 'The Old Man and the Gun' | The Big Picture (Ep. 532)
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Liz Kelly. Here's what ringer content you should be looking out for before the end of the week. |
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| 0:30.8 | You know, he says never say never, and I'm glad he's saying that. |
| 0:33.6 | He definitely wants to focus to be on the movie and not on his retirement, but if he is going to hang up his hat, |
| 0:39.4 | I'm glad that he's happy enough with his film to feel like this was the film that he could go out on. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm Sean Fennesy, editor and chief of the ringer, and this is the big picture, a conversation show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world. |
| 0:56.0 | Today's guest is a maker of fables, from Aint them body saints to Pete Straggan to last year's supernatural drama, A Ghost Story. |
| 1:03.6 | David Lowry is one of our foremost fairy tale tellers. |
| 1:07.1 | His new movie is a true story, but it's also a fable of its own. |
| 1:10.2 | It's called The Old Man and the Gun, and it's based on the journalist David Grans Chronicle of Forest Tucker, |
| 1:15.3 | a bank robber and prison escape artist who plied his trade well into his 70s. |
| 1:19.6 | The Old Man and the stories title is played by the great Robert Redford, |
| 1:22.7 | and what he says is his final on screen performance, |
| 1:25.2 | capping one of the great careers in Hollywood history. |
| 1:27.9 | David Lowry came by this week to talk about sending off Redford, |
| 1:31.0 | finding the fiction in a true story, and what great movie star he wants to work with next. |
| 1:35.2 | Here's David Lowry. |
| 1:37.2 | I'm delighted to be joined by the first return guest since we launched this show in January 2017. |
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