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David Lowery on Directing Robert Redford's Final Film, 'The Old Man and the Gun' | The Big Picture (Ep. 86)

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Ringer Editor-in-Chief Sean Fennessey is rejoined by filmmaker David Lowery to discuss his new movie 'The Old Man and the Gun,' directing Robert Redford in his final performance, and his knack for crafting modern-day fables. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Liz Kelly.

0:01.9

Here's what Wringer content you should be looking out for before the end of the week.

0:05.6

From the star of Slow News Day, check out Kevin Clark's new video series Worst Picks of

0:10.0

the Week, where he offers up the worst NFL and pop culture beds each week.

0:14.3

This will be up every Thursday throughout the NFL season and you can watch on YouTube,

0:17.8

Facebook or Twitter.

0:19.6

Also up on the site, we have two pieces on the good place and Juliet Lippmann is writing

0:23.6

about the 20-year anniversary of Fliskey.

0:25.9

Check it out on the wringer.com.

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.

0:36.8

But if he is going to hang up his hat, I'm glad that he's happy enough with this film to feel like

0:41.5

this was the film that he could go out on.

0:48.5

I'm Sean Fennesy, Editor and Chief of the Wringer and this is the big picture,

0:52.0

a conversation show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world.

0:56.0

Today's guest is a maker of fables.

0:58.4

From Aint Them Body Saints to Pete Stragon to last year's supernatural drama, a ghost story,

1:03.6

David Lowry is one of our foremost fairy tale tellers.

1:07.2

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

1:14.2

of Forest Tucker, a bank robber and prison escape artist who plied his trade well into his 70s.

1:19.6

The Old Man and the stories titles played by the great Robert Redford in what he says is his

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