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Да он трудоголик! Четыре премьеры в 2020 году,три в этом, если бы не пандемия, представляешь, сколько было бы контента для поклонников? 

‘Ida Red’: Locarno Review

Writer-director John Swab continues his quest to put his midwestern home town of Tulsa on the cinematic map with Ida Red, a brooding, occasionally bloody crime-thriller with noir and western undertones that is chiefly notable for a strong ensemble cast. World-premiering in the audience-friendly Piazza Grande section of Locarno, this is a low/medium-budget American independent film of deliberately old-fashioned stripe.
Aimed at a relatively mature audience which may now prefer to download or stream such entertainments, Swab’s competently handled but essentially low-key third solo feature could be a tricky theatrical sell for US distributor Universal. But down the line it may conceivably generate a little awards-season heat for Oscar-winner Melissa Leo, who makes the most of her supporting role as the eponymous Ida, longtime criminal “queenpin” of backwater Oklahoma.

Sentenced to a long stretch behind bars after a heist went catastrophically wrong and left her a widow, perpetually scheming, flame-haired sixtysomething Ida learns she has only months to live. She is determined to expire in the free air of liberty, a desire ardently shared by her family — headed in her absence by nephew Dallas (Frank Grillo) and her son Wyatt (Josh Hartnett), who make their living holding up trucks on remote highways.

Moving fluently between numerous plot-strands and characters, Swab gradually zeroes in on the individual who unexpectedly emerges as next-generation standard-bearer for the clan’s nefarious traditions: precocious 15-year-old high-schooler Darla (Sofia Hublitz). Raised in straight-arrow by fashion by Wyatt’s sister Jeannie (Deborah Ann Woll) — whose husband Bodie (George Carroll) is a cop, no less — Darla initially manifests her kin’s rebellious ways via minor high-school infractions. Romantic travails and family-related revelations see her steadily escalate into more felonious terrain.

The development of Darla from semi-marginal figure to quasi-protagonist is the most susprising element of Swab’s screenplay; he is otherwise fairly content to recycle familiar tropes of the rural-crime sub-genre, most successfully essayed over the past decade by William Friedkin’s Killer Joe (2011) and David Mackenzie’s Hell Or High Water (2016). Swab’s debt to earlier antecedent At Close Range (1986) is meanwhile signalled by his needle-drop deployment of a Madonna hit from the same era, ’Crazy For You’, (James Foley’s original pivoting heavily upon ’Live To Tell’.)

There is a certain pleasure in seeing a fairly new voice essay such familiar turf with steady professionalism, even if Swab at this stage has yet to develop much of a distinctive personal style. The occasional bygone-era elaborate wipe between scenes is perhaps his only significant flourish; too often Swab relies upon the busy score by David Sardy when he needs to amp up the mood.

The writer-director is still something of a relative neophyte, however, having co-directed and co-written Let Me Make You A Martyr (2016) with Corey Asraf, before moving on alone to Run With The Hunted (2019) and Body Brokers, which surfaced only this February and also featured several faces from Ida Red including Leo and Grillo. Swab’s fourth solo effort Candy Land is already in post-production.

Each of these downbeat dramas is set in and/or around Tulsa, previously best known movie-wise as the backdrop for Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish (1983). Swab’s ambition of creating and sustaining film-production in the area is a commendable one (the same names keep cropping up on both sides of the camera across all his works), even if this latest enterprise fails to evoke the region in any palpably atmospheric way. Most of the action in Ida Red — mainly set around 2010, and named after the traditional folk song popularised in the 1930s by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys which formed the basis for Chuck Berry’s smash ’Maybellene’ — could be unfolding in almost any rural or semi-rural area of the United States.

Swab’s strong suit, conversely, lies in the selection and handling of his performers. Deborah Ann Woll (as the Walker family’s one ’white sheep’,) Ben Hall (enjoyably channelling John Carradine as an untrustworthy parole-board officer) and Bruce Davis (as a loquacious Black churchman with sinful inclinations) stand out among several better-known names. The latter include millennial pinup Hartnett, continuing his surprise comeback after  a much less taxing role in Guy Ritchie’s Wrath Of Man. Occasionally a thespian himself (including briefly here), Swab is evidently an actors’ director with whom performers both established and inexperienced feel comfortable — a trait that bodes well for his future career in Tulsa and/or beyond.
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'Ida Red': The rise and fall and rise again of the amazing Josh Hartnett

Once named the Sexiest Vegetarian Alive, actor Josh Hartnett returns as the son of a crime boss in brand new action thriller
By Shirley Tayshete

Ask anyone from the 2000s who Josh Hartnett is and they'll tell you all about a heartthrob who they adored. Dubbed as the 'next Tom Cruise' after a bunch of hit films, he decided that the fame was just not for him. His fame was such that Hartnett was offered career-defining roles like Clark Kent aka Superman, Spiderman, and even Batman, but turned them down.

This even saw him lose agents for a bit while he was being labeled the 3rd Sexiest Male by Bliss Magazine. After he made a gradual return, things were tougher, but the actor was happier. In 2014, 'Penny Dreadful' saw the critics and audience give him a warm welcome back to the world of TV as the prodigy returned on a larger scale. Read on to know why the star left the Hollywood scene for a bit and what he was up to.
Why did Josh Hartnett stay away from screens?

To put it quite simply, Josh Hartnett got tired -- tired of the fame, tired of the work he was expected to do, and tired of being in the spotlight. Showbiz is something that comes with a lot of pressure and this eventually got to him. While he didn't completely disappear from our screens he did decide to get selective with his roles and chose those he truly wanted to participate in. The actor has even shared that he found his 20s so overwhelming that we went back to his hometown for a while to escape the heat of Hollywood. Although he made fewer appearances over the years, 2020 saw him return in a bigger role Kip Riley in 'Inherit the Viper'.

Many wondered what Hartnett does when he's not working on projects. The actor also has a dedication to working for various causes and participating in different campaigns. He took out time in 2007 to work for the Global Cool living campaign in order to raise awareness regarding climate change. He was also one of the few celebrities who worked with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Ad Council's FWD campaign which was an awareness initiative that highlighted and spread facts about 2011's East Africa drought. In 2012, Hartnett also joined Barack Obama in his campaign in Minnesota before formally endorsing the President on the official campaign YouTube channel. The actor is currently taking things at his own pace after learning from his younger days.

Hartnett at 43 is set to star in 'Ida Red' a crime action drama in the lead role of Wyatt Walker. The synopsis reads, "Crime boss Ida "Red" Walker(Melissa Leo) turns to her son, Wyatt(Josh Hartnett), to pull off one last heist to get out of prison. However, with the FBI closing in, Wyatt must soon choose between family and freedom.

'Ida Red' is set to release on Novermber 5, 2021. Lets see if he does well in the eyes of an expectant audience.

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