The Virgin Suicides
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Natural Born Killers, The Virgin Suicides and More: Jim Hemphill’s Weekend Viewing Recommendations
From 1986, the year in which he made two flat-out masterpieces (Salvador and Platoon) to 1995, when he directed his boldest and richest film to that point (Nixon), Oliver Stone was on a streak like no other filmmaker has ever had before or since. Ten films in ten years, many of them (Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, The Doors) enormous epics and all of them ambitious attempts to assess where America had been, where it was, and where it was going. The scale and depth of Stone’s work during this period is equaled by the diversity of tone, […]
by Jim Hemphill on Apr 27, 2018 -
CINEMATOGRAPHER ED LACHMAN DISCUSSES HIS CRAFT
At Independent Film Week this past September, Ed Lachman taught a Masterclass sponsored by Kodak. An acclaimed cinematographer known for creating lush and arresting images in films such as I’m Not There, Erin Brockovich, and The Virgin Suicides, Lachman was nominated for an Academy Award and received an Independent Spirit Award for his work on Far From Heaven. While the full panel is pay-walled and available only to IFP members, you can watch these three free excerpts right now: Here, Lachman discusses the difference between working with first-time directors and more experienced directors. Here, Lachman theorize about the difficulty of […]
by Jane Schoenbrun on Nov 2, 2011
