Dan Janvey
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“We Can Shoot the Sun and the Characters Dramatically, but the World is Humble”: Writer/Director Max Walker-Silverman on A Love Song
The sun is harsh in Max Walker-Silverman’s A Love Song. Intense in the mid-day, it beats down on Faye (Dale Dickey) — ruddy, her face lined by hard living, her blonde hair lightened further by all the incandescent days. Ensconced in her small trailer sitting in a lakeside patch of dirt somewhere in Colorado, the widow waits for a man, also familiar with loss, she knew decades ago. She wrote to him — will he show up? It’s not a spoiler to reveal that he does, in the form of Wes Studi, and theirs is a bittersweet, gently melancholic connection […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 29, 2022 -
Advance Team
“I suppose you want to talk about her process,” says producer Dan Janvey when I tell him I’d like to learn about the producing team’s work with Chloé Zhao on Nomadland. Well, yes, I say—but not because I and Filmmaker readers aren’t familiar with it. After all, Filmmaker has covered Zhao’s work since 2013, when she appeared on our 25 New Faces list before the production of her debut feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me. We spoke with her for a feature interview about that film and for her follow-up, The Rider, our spring 2018 cover feature, watching her develop […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 10, 2021 -
“BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD” — A HAMMER TO NAIL ‘REVIEW’
(Beasts of the Southern Wild world premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize, as well as Best Cinematography for Ben Richardson. It also won the Camera d’Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It is being distributed by Fox Searchlight and opened theatrically on June 27, 2012. Visit the film’s official website—as well as the virtual home base of the Court 13 collective—to learn more.) I want to make this immediately, abundantly clear. Perhaps more than any other review I’ve ever written, this one is coming from the pained perspective of a […]
by Michael Tully on Jun 28, 2012
