Lincoln (2012)
Country: US/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones
Synopsis:
In the last year of the American Civil War, President Lincoln is determined to pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery before the South capitulates. For he foresees that without the imperative of bringing about the end of hostilities, the North will never again summon the political will to do so.
Review:
Few films can have constructed themselves in such exhaustive detail around the chicanery of the political process, and this happily means foregrounding Lincoln the politician over the family man. It is a jaw-dropping embodiment - unlike Fonda and Massey he needs not even a false nose - and Day-Lewis lightens his voice as if he knows how the old man sounded. Spielberg focuses on telling detail - the stories he delighted in telling, to the frustration of his associates, and the mechanics of actually suborning representatives for votes (James Spader shines here, as a deliciously profane and burly turner of Democrats, ironically the party most opposed to emancipation).
Country: US/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones
Synopsis:
In the last year of the American Civil War, President Lincoln is determined to pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery before the South capitulates. For he foresees that without the imperative of bringing about the end of hostilities, the North will never again summon the political will to do so.
Review:
Few films can have constructed themselves in such exhaustive detail around the chicanery of the political process, and this happily means foregrounding Lincoln the politician over the family man. It is a jaw-dropping embodiment - unlike Fonda and Massey he needs not even a false nose - and Day-Lewis lightens his voice as if he knows how the old man sounded. Spielberg focuses on telling detail - the stories he delighted in telling, to the frustration of his associates, and the mechanics of actually suborning representatives for votes (James Spader shines here, as a deliciously profane and burly turner of Democrats, ironically the party most opposed to emancipation).
Country: US/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 150m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Tommy Lee Jones
Synopsis:
In the last year of the American Civil War, President Lincoln is determined to pass the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery before the South capitulates. For he foresees that without the imperative of bringing about the end of hostilities, the North will never again summon the political will to do so.
Review:
Few films can have constructed themselves in such exhaustive detail around the chicanery of the political process, and this happily means foregrounding Lincoln the politician over the family man. It is a jaw-dropping embodiment - unlike Fonda and Massey he needs not even a false nose - and Day-Lewis lightens his voice as if he knows how the old man sounded. Spielberg focuses on telling detail - the stories he delighted in telling, to the frustration of his associates, and the mechanics of actually suborning representatives for votes (James Spader shines here, as a deliciously profane and burly turner of Democrats, ironically the party most opposed to emancipation).