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Thunder Bay 1953
It's a nice twist to see Mann's tradicional main-in-pain closeup on a happy and proud James Steward swallowing up his tears.
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Public Enemies 2009
“We wanted the look of Public Enemies to have a high level of realism, not an overt period feel. Among the historical aspects are a lot of action, romance and drama, and Michael and I talked about achieving an immediate feel.
"Michael likes images to be sharp, and he likes shooting with smaller chips because he likes the deep depth of field, so we became fans of the F23. Also, we believed digital would facilitate a more dynamic use of…
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Paris, Texas 1984
The images of interior and exterior landscapes in that book, with its mixed color temperatures of daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, and sodium vapor was something Robby felt close to, and which he felt could create an emotional environment for the actors and story. He strove successfully to emulate that look in cinema, always searching to create a reality in the space where he was filming. But he wanted more than mere photo-realism; he wanted to create a poetic-realism, one that would allow the viewers to think it was literal reality — be it in Hamburg, Paris, Texas or New Orleans
Ed Lachman on Robby Muller
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