Giovanni Ribisi, who shot the thriller 'Strange Darling,' talked to his old friend Josh Brolin about making movies in the streaming age.
did the latter when he decided to “come out of the closet with cinematography,” as he put it to Brolin, and shoot his maiden feature, the cunning JT Mollner-directed thriller about a serial killer and the woman he meets at the tail end of a vicious murder spree. The film, shot entirely on a 35mm camera, is told in six non-linear chapters, and Ribisi’s choices as it concerns both framing and light make no small contribution to its stylish, menacing appeal.
RIBISI: I’m blown away right now. I think a lot of that was based on the discussions that the director, writer, and I had. His name is J.T. Mollner. We had a four or five month pre-production, just him and myself in this room watching movies, discussing ideas, and making the movie on paper before we actually went and made it. We typed out an 83-page shot list document. We couldn’t afford a storyboard artist.
BROLIN: It’s a very greedy system right now. And you go, “Look, I don’t want to work unless I know that I’m going to make money.” You know what I mean? When I first started watching movies—and I’m watching Antonin Artaud in, or I’m watching Buñuel—those were the things that truly inspired me. And I think that’s coming back because things have gotten so out of control. You made a decision. You went, “You know what? I want to be a cinematographer now.” And I’m going, “Look at him go, man.
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