Directors, critics – even a president – have hailed the actor’s qualities, and his latest movie sees them all present and correctA crowd stands, spellbound, in a muddy square in northern Texas, firelight flickering on the faces in the evening darkness.
A newspaper story is being read aloud by a lone speaker, and each man and woman strains to hear the words, mouths twitching with effort and emotion.
It is a news report that tells of a group of miners in peril, trapped underground elsewhere, in some other benighted place.It is an unusual scene of the sort that would perhaps be summoned up by a film director who earned his spurs in the world of news and current affairs.
And it’s true, News of the World, a poignant western, was directed by Paul Greengrass, alumni of British television’s old World in Action team and a big believer
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