Days of Thunder (70mm)

70mm print featuring a rare 6-track magnetic soundtrack

Dir. Tony Scott. 1990, 107 mins. U.S. 70mm. With Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly. Tony Scott brings his virtuosic talent for hyper-real sound and image to the NASCAR stadium in this summer 1990 flashback from Simpson-Bruckheimer, which reapplies the Top Gun template to the world of auto racing with verve and style, casting Cruise as a hotshot young racer. The film that brought together Cruise and Kidman (as his neurosurgeon love interest), Days of Thunder is a shrewd application of formula, glossy and eminently pleasurable in its details and seriousness. The script is by Robert Towne, the supporting cast (including Duvall as a car builder coming out of retirement and Elwes as a rookie rival) is devilishly on-point, and the crew is a who’s-who of the era’s top-notch studio talent, including composer Hans Zimmer to editor Billy Weber (The Thin Red Line), resulting in a rousing entertainment that demands the big screen for its full sonic sunset power. 

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