{"id":16452,"date":"2024-05-24T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16452"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:42:56","slug":"lone-star-1996-john-sayles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16452","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star (1996, John Sayles)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A high-quality modern Western drama, solid cast and writing, with a couple of elevating factors. The stylistic trick of transitioning into flashbacks with a camera move instead of an edit or fade, past characters sharing physical space with the present, is impressive every time. And just when the story is wrapping up, when Chris Cooper learns that his late father Matthew McConaughey did not shoot the sheriff, he also learns that his old flame newly re-enflamed (Elizabeth Pe\u00f1a) is his half-sister… and they decide they can live with that.<\/p>\n

Bad Sheriff Kristofferson’s final act:<\/em>
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Bar owner Otis later played a detective in The Empty Man<\/a><\/em>. His estranged military son Joe Morton was the doomed robotics inventor in Terminator 2<\/em>. Pe\u00f1a was in The Second Civil War<\/em>, which it’s probably time to rewatch. Nominated for a bunch of awards that Fargo<\/em> won, so it’s good to see key Coen critic Adam Nayman<\/a> defending.<\/p>\n

Its qualities of thoughtful, hard-edged sociological storytelling and analysis are currently in short supply. They don\u2019t make \u2019em like this anymore … For all its skepticism about the American tendency to mythologize (and mass market) its sins away, the film is tender about the necessity of forgetting, or at least trying to. It\u2019s a measure of Sayles\u2019s superlative construction that a story that begins with something being unearthed ends with a plea to keep another secret buried \u2014 and of his empathy as an artist that the sentiment rings true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sisters Lovers:<\/em>
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Coen Connection:<\/em>
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A high-quality modern Western drama, solid cast and writing, with a couple of elevating factors. The stylistic trick of transitioning into flashbacks with a camera move instead of an edit or fade, past characters sharing physical space with the present, is impressive every time. And just when the story is wrapping up, when Chris Cooper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1464,13,3259,2362,2104,1016,3258,137,356],"class_list":["post-16452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-chris-cooper","tag-criterion","tag-elizabeth-pena","tag-frances-mcdormand","tag-immigration","tag-john-sayles","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-mexico","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16488,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16452\/revisions\/16488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}