The new British-made trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s Bridge of Spies (Disney, 10.16) is a significant improvement over last month’s teaser. It still has that trademark bluish-white Janusz Kamsinski cinematography, which I loathe with a passion, but it lays out the social and political context of the late Eisenhower era and delivers a more precise portrait of U.S. vs. Soviet tensions when the Francis Gary Powers U2 incident happened in May 1960. Spielberg and Hanks were kids when this shitstorm happened, and so there’s likely to be an extra measure of authority in the depictions of those times. Hanks’ 17th version of his man-of-character-and-infinite-patience thing, etc.
