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David O. Russell - Interviews (Hardcover)
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David O. Russell - Interviews (Hardcover)
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series
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David O. Russell (b. 1958) boasts a diverse body of work as a
writer and director, spanning multiple genres and featuring
radically differing aesthetic styles. While his early work
comically explored taboo subjects with unerring directness, he has
also investigated politics with explosive satire. In his most
recent films, including American Hustle and Silver Linings
Playbook, Russell examines characters and situations that are at
once everyday and also extraordinary. Whatever the project, Russell
is driven to explore the idiosyncrasies that make each character
human, and he extends that curiosity to explore what makes each
actor unique. His attentiveness to his cast members has earned him
the label of ""actor's director,"" due in no small part to the many
nominations and awards earned by a long list of Hollywood stars in
his movies. Russell has also become one of our era's most
interesting formal stylists as he adopts a visual design
appropriate to each of his film's thematic concerns. The result may
be a color palette resembling the washed-out pages of a newspaper
achieved by manipulating the film stock for Three Kings or the
tumultuous opening of The Fighter when an audacious, roving camera
plunges viewers straight into the story from the very first shots
of the film. Rather than building a signature style, Russell has
instead tested the varied possibilities of cinematic expression.
This career-spanning volume features conversations with scholars
and journalists as well as filmmakers. Speaking to directors like
Alexander Payne and Spike Jonze, Russell contextualizes each of his
films, offers an intimate account of his evolving writing and
directing process, and opens his life to reveal how a remarkable
body of work has come to be.
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