Will "Burn After Reading" Suffer Without Deakins?
Think of some of the most stunningly shot films of the last few decades, and there is a very good chance you will be including some of Roger Deakins' work. Let me run a few names past you: The Shawshank Redemption, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James - it is no accident that these are all considered classics.
The last two of these films have really stamped his name in the consciousness of the Western hemisphere, and bring me to my point; will the fact that his stock is so high at the moment take him away from his long standing relationship with the Cohen brothers? Since Barton Fink the names Cohen and Deakins have been practically synonymous, his distinctive style employed on the more comedic pictures such as The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother Where Art Thou? as well as the broader canvas of Fargo.
Now we have an Ethan and Joel film, Burn After Reading, without his direction of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki takes up the roll. He is certainly not an amateur - with credits such as Children of Men and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to his name - but his style is distinctly different to that of Deakins.
One of the aspects of the brothers' films that has always brought me back, time and again, has been the delicious visuals. I am in trepidation waiting for Burn After Reading's release date over here in the UK, and know that I will have to wait even longer to know whether it suffers, as the local cinema in Wadebridge is always a little behind when it comes to non-blockbusters.
This picture will show us clearly just how much control the Cohens have over the photography of the films, the cast has already implied that there can be no deviation from the script, so we will see how far this autocratic control reaches.
Another matter that is well worth consideration is the practically perfect poster:
But I'll wait until next week to gush over it...
The last two of these films have really stamped his name in the consciousness of the Western hemisphere, and bring me to my point; will the fact that his stock is so high at the moment take him away from his long standing relationship with the Cohen brothers? Since Barton Fink the names Cohen and Deakins have been practically synonymous, his distinctive style employed on the more comedic pictures such as The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother Where Art Thou? as well as the broader canvas of Fargo.
Now we have an Ethan and Joel film, Burn After Reading, without his direction of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki takes up the roll. He is certainly not an amateur - with credits such as Children of Men and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events to his name - but his style is distinctly different to that of Deakins.
One of the aspects of the brothers' films that has always brought me back, time and again, has been the delicious visuals. I am in trepidation waiting for Burn After Reading's release date over here in the UK, and know that I will have to wait even longer to know whether it suffers, as the local cinema in Wadebridge is always a little behind when it comes to non-blockbusters.
This picture will show us clearly just how much control the Cohens have over the photography of the films, the cast has already implied that there can be no deviation from the script, so we will see how far this autocratic control reaches.
Another matter that is well worth consideration is the practically perfect poster:
But I'll wait until next week to gush over it...
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