Gore Verbinski
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“Trying to Make a Psychotic Opera”: Gore Verbinski on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
It’s been nearly a decade since Gore Verbinski’s last feature film A Cure for Wellness hit theaters, but the director best known for creating the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise hasn’t been slacking. “I’ve worked every day of those years,” the Oscar-winner behind Rango tells Filmmaker over Zoom. “We developed an animated musical. We recorded the entire soundtrack for an animated musical. We’ve developed multiple screenplays. I just find that sometimes the stories I’m most passionate about perhaps don’t satisfy the green-light committees’ process, and that’s fair. But I got to do what I do, and they do what they […]
by Esther Zuckerman on Feb 12, 2026 -
“Hitler Was Treated There”: DP Bojan Bazelli on A Cure for Wellness, Alexa XT Studios and Abel Ferrara
Cinematographers right out of film school often get their feet wet by shooting short films, music videos, and commercials – brief subjects with lower budgets and ample room to experiment and make mistakes. There was no such toe dipping for Bojan Bazelli. He was dunked directly into the river of cinema and legendary New York auteur Abel Ferrara did the baptizing. The Yugoslavia-born Bazelli was just out of film school in Prague when Ferrara came across the DP’s thesis movie and tapped him to shoot his Romeo and Juliet variation China Girl (1987). Over the next decade Bazelli lensed 17 features, […]
by Matt Mulcahey on Mar 8, 2017 -
Watch: “The Unloved: The Lone Ranger & Heaven’s Gate“
“How do we define failure when it comes to motion pictures?” Simultaneously defending the more-or-less rehabilitated Heaven’s Gate and the not-so-much The Lone Ranger is a hard task, but presumably someone has to do it. In this video essay, Scout Tafoya gives a surprisingly plausible stab at arguing that both are underrated slabs of greatness with much in common, alternately grimly realistic and expensively glossy takes on the genocide of the Native Americans, presentational flip sides of the same coin.
by Filmmaker Staff on Mar 5, 2015
