The low-tech heist flick “The Bank Job” looked anything but broke during Monday's premiere at the upscale Bryant Park Hotel in Gotham. Corseted waitresses served cocktails at the Cinema Society’s pre-screening party, and with director Roger Donaldson, stars Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows in attendance, the guests adjourned to the hotel’s theater to watch the film.
Donaldson said that he enjoyed the limitations of old technology in the film, since they made the story a better one. “This isn’t a story that could happen today,” explained the Aussie helmer. “If this was set now, you’d be triangulating using cell phones and so forth.” In his introduction to the film, Donaldson emphasized the movie’s adherence to the facts — things that English journalists writing at the time of the actual robbery on which the film is based, were forbidden from reporting for 35 years. (S. Thielman)
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