Silver City (2004)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: John Sayles

Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Composer: Mason Daring

Cast: Danny Huston, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Kris Kristofferson, Maria Bello, Mary Kay Place, David Clennon, Tim Roth, Michael Murphy, Daryl Hannah, Sal Lopez

A world weary journalist-turned-private-investigator (Huston, excellent), hired by a candidate for state governor’s election staff to find the identity of a Juan Doe, which popped-up during the filming of a campaign video, gradually uncovers a web of lies, conspiracies, and corrupt officials, but finds himself powerless to do anything about them, in Sayles’s sprawling, biting, Chinatown-like detective movie cum political thriller. Iain.Stott