Dallas Buyers Club
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Let There Be Natural Light
“Fuck it, I’m going for it.” That, says cinematographer Yves Bélanger, was his response when presented with the challenge of shooting Dallas Buyers Club using only natural light. But aided by the ALEXA digital camera and his freewheeling director Jean-Marc Vallée, Bélanger handily shot the entire film without the heavy equipment usually associated with movies starring the likes of Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. No tripods, no lighting kits. His only artificial source of illumination: a small Kino Flo he used at the beginning of each day to shoot his color charts to make sure the color balance was correct. […]
by Anthony Kaufman on Apr 28, 2014 -
Rome Film Festival 2013
Marco Müller, in his second year at the helm of the Rome International Film Festival, abandoned his insistence on all films being world premieres, but not the ability to program average films. The main reason for the change of tact seems to be to allow higher profile American films to be programmed in competition. The beneficiaries this year were Dallas Buyers Club and Her which were rewarded for their Italian voyage with awards for their actors: Matthew McConaughey has been winning plaudits everywhere for his turn as a drug-peddling carrier of HIV, while one suspects that the competition jury had […]
by Kaleem Aftab on Nov 19, 2013 -
Dallas Buyers Club Giveaway: Win a Focus Features Blu-ray Pack
The real-life story of good ol’ boy Ron Woodruff (Matthew McConaughey), a homophobic Texan electrician who discovered he was dying of Aids and decided to fight the system as he fought for his life, Dallas Buyers Club comes out on November 1 through Focus Features. To celebrate the film’s release, Focus is offering a prize pack of some of the finest films from its back catalogue. Dallas Buyers Club is a strong Oscar contender for its performances by McConaughey and Jared Leto (as transgender drug addict Rayon), so fittingly the Blu-rays up for grabs are also Focus titles that were […]
by Nick Dawson on Oct 24, 2013 -
Trailer Watch: Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club
Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée has had a curiously diverse career so far, going from the flamboyant coming-of-age dramedy C.R.A.Z.Y. to the historical romance of Young Victoria. The connective tissue between those two movies is that they are both period pieces, and so Vallee is presumably bringing a keen sense of the times to Dallas Buyers Club, a mid-198os AIDS drama starring Matthew McConaughey as a dying Texan electrician infected with the virus who helped others in a similarly grave situation gain access to medicines yet to be approved by the FDA. This is yet another film that firmly repositions McConaughey as […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 27, 2013
