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Monday, August 6, 2018

Jean-Marc Vallée

Director, Editor, Producer


(From an interview with DNA; about directing process on Big Little Lies)


JMV... "the way we shoot – handheld with available light, not blocking the light, not reflecting it – it creates a space. There's a feeling of reality; we're doing fiction but it becomes about capturing. I'll shoot the first rehearsal and I don't tell the actors where to go. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it's good and then I react to that. I do coverage depending on the [character's] perspective, what they look at and where they go. If she starts walking and then she stops and he looks at her, or she looks at him - I cut from her perspective and use her looks to tell me where to cut there. [...] to shoot with no rehearsal."

"when I saw the Pacific Ocean over there, it was f***ing angry and violent. I've never seen waves like that and the sunset was so incredible. I thought, this has to be a character. And the sound – it would be the sound of the series. I thought, let's find houses where these women will have a connection to the ocean. The ocean is the mother of humanity. It's so powerful, strong and mysterious and such a good symbol."

(source: DNA article, written by Rucha Sharma. Photo credit: Michael Watier)

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Generique

by Miles Davis
soundtrack album, Louis Malle film "Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud"



Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Six Feet Under

Created by Alan Ball

Performances by Frances Conroy, Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Griffiths, Mathew St. Patrick, Freddy Rodríguez... / Written by Alan Ball, Nancy Oliver, Rick Cleveland, Kate Robin, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Scott Buck, Jill Soloway, Craig Wright, Laurence Andries, Christian Taylor, Christian Williams, Johnny Otto.




Our death is our wedding with eternity - Rumi