Steven Spielberg's new film "War Horse" is almost deliberately
old-fashioned, pitting noble beast against the horrors of war, with
sweeping, emotional set pieces ? and dividing critics as Hollywood's
awards season looms.
The movie, which got a Golden Globe nomination this month ahead of
its Christmas Day release in the United States, is even made on good old
celluloid in a snub to the digital revolution.
"I think that movies like that don't get made much any more, you
know the kind of epic sweeping historical drama that were used to be
made quite a bit 30, 40 years ago," producer Kathleen Kennedy told AFP.
"It's what makes the movie a little old-fashioned but at the same time modern," she added.
The movie tells the story of Joey, a horse raised in a bucolic
English countryside who is torn away from his home ? and stable lad
Albert ? and sent to France to the battlefields of World War I.
To a soundtrack heavy on violins, the …