If you have the chance to see Silver City, definitely see it - the acting is wonderful. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Lone Star had the same great individual performances Silver City has, but it trusted its audience to be more intelligent and "get it" without hammering us over the head with the message. SilverCity, a Canadian movie theater chain run by Cineplex Entertainment The Silver City, a 1956 memoir by Ion Idriess Silver City, a 2004 book, second in The Silver Sequence by Cliff McNish See also edit Siler City, North Carolina This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Silver City. We will be showing the films The Sun at Midnight, Elder in the Making, Dene: A Journey, and more at the Cineplex Coquitlam. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. Lone Star was much more focused, and the relationship in that movie between Sheriff Sam Deeds and his Hispanic lover, Pilar, became a metaphor for the strange & symbiotic & incestuous relationship between Mexico and the U.S. The problem goes right back to the writing - Sayles is just trying to say way too much in this movie, and we get long lectures (instead of good storytelling) about land-developers, dirty politicians, immigrant abuse, pollution, journalistic ethics, corporate America, dysfunctional dynastic families, recreational substance abuse, casual sex, broken hearts - the list goes on and on. Now Tim Roth, HE looked and acted like a burnt-out radical reporter. Adjacent to a minimally inhabited national forest nearly the size of Connecticut, Silver City might just be New Mexico’s ultimate destination for getting away from it all without actually having to forgo exceptional dining, distinctive accommodations, and top-notch arts and cultural attractions. Plus, was he made up to look like Mike Connors in Mannix or what? That 50's hairstyle was WEIRD. But do other people think Danny Huston was miscast as the main character, Danny O'Brien? He seemed so "aw-shucks" goofy and dumb much of the time. Alongside Cooper's work stand the performances of Kris Kristoffersen (how does he manage to be so soft-spoken and so threatening at the same time?)and the wonderful Ralph Waite (the quintessential American actor.) Also great performances from Tim Roth as the radical blogger, James Gammon as the Sheriff and Sal Lopez as a Mexican cook. He conveys privileged arrogance, impatience, mangled English and downright cluelessness. Police incident at superstore (1301 lougheed) Just a heads up saw a whole bunch of cop cars around superstore entrance (near lougheed/silvercity coq) at around 820/830pm. Chris Cooper is dead-on in his imitation of Dubya. But Silver City is worth seeing just for the wonderful individual performances of its actors. Yes, Sayles is over-ambitious in this movie and lectures us about too many things.
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