Film Festival Process Book by Sami Lukens

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Darren Aronofsky Visuals

Jonathan Demme Visuals

PICK THREE DIRECTORS AND RESEARCH THEM BOTH VISUALLY & LITERARY.

MOVIES The Silence of the Lambs,

Jonathan Demme is a producer and director who was recently

Philadelphia, The

voted the 45th greatest director of all time by

Manchurian Candidate,

Entertainment Weekly. As a director Demme’s techniques

Rachel Getting Married,

include his ability to invest in his characters with an

Melvin and Howard, Last

unusual depth and humanity, his films never leave one with a

embrace

tight/tidy resolution, his style is fast-paced, hip, and urban, he has his characters look directly into the camera

AWARDS

so the audience can see the reactions and responses to the

Twenty-One Nominations

situations at hand.

Twenty-Three Wins The Silence of the Lambs Oscar

I’ve chosen Jonathan Demme mainly because I thoroughly enjoy his films. I also like that he is unafraid to take on challenging and controversial matter in his films.

The Agronomist Gold Plaque

DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky is a screenwriter, producer, and critically acclaimed director. He was very artistic as a child

MOVIES

often influenced by graffiti art and classic movies. His

Pi, Requiem for a Dream,

techniques often include quick editing which can be seen as

The Fountain, The Wrestler,

mirroring the unraveling of sanity and grip on the world

Black Swan, Noah

that characters often undergo, sequencing of images of

SHORTS

actions shown in fast motion with accompanying sound

Fortune Cookie, Protozoa,

effects to help stimulate a certain action also known as

Supermarket Sweep, No Time

hip-hop montage, fading the screen to stark white for

AWARDS Forty-Seven Nominations

emphasis, and showcasing characters with strong obsessions that drive them towards overcoming fears or self destruction. His films are seen as classics, dazzling, and visually

Twenty-Nine Wins

intoxicating.

The Wrestler

I’ve chosen Darren Aronofsky based on his unique directing AFI Award

style, and his ability to connect to audiences through

Black Swan

emotion. On some level I feel that I connect with him

Argentinean Academy Award Best Director, Black Swan

artistically while I am viewing his films. During The Fountain, and The Black Swan I especially felt

Austin Film Critics Award Black Swan

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FINCHER I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MOVIES SHOULD ENTERTAIN. TO ME, I’M ALWAYS INTEREST IN THE MOVIES THAT SCAR.

AUGUST 28 1962

DENVER COLORADO

DAVID ANDREW LEO FINCHER

AUDIENCES SHOULD STAY WITH YOU, BEHIND YOU, AND AHEAD OF YOU WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO.

DIRECTOR« David Fincher is an actor, producer, and critically acclaimed director. Influenced by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid he began to experiment in making movies at the young age of eight with a 8mm camera. The beginning of his career began at eighteen working for Korty Films continuing on to George Lucas’s special effect company, Industrial Light and Music. Shortly he began to direct commercials, music videos, and in 1987, along with directors Dominic Sena, Greg Gold, and Nigel Dick, they founded Propaganda Films. Producers in Los Angeles took notice of Fincher when he took a chance by making a very edgy commercial for the American Cancer Society showing a fetus smoking a cigarette. A reputation of creating edgy would followed him throughout his career. As a director his techniques often include use of a strong visual sensibility to depict unusual, and often edgy subject matter, uses a grunge style for his visual language, use of bone deep humanism, and humanistic impulse, use of “phantasmagorical razzmatazz,” films are image driven, he uses a noir style to his films, uses fear as a motive for his characters, and he often uses wide shots with low angles throughout his films. Fincher is able to create a sensually overcharged experience for his audience, and is often seen as a born again realist who is innovative and meticulous. Fincher has a special gift for grounding fantasy into reality.

_Often features several single frames that

_Stationary Shots, Unfocused background with

flash on the screen in the middle of a scene.

character walking into focus.

_Innovation in camera movement, Creates

_Ability to disassociate the audience by

fluid tracking camera that provides access

effectively putting them into the psyche of

anywhere. A technique inspired by Max

the characters.

Ophuls, and Stanley Kubrick, and pioneered along with Kevin Tod Haug, and BUF Paris. _Low-key lighting with green or blue tinted color temperature. _Wide shots & Low angles _End credits as slide shows, scrolling downward rather than the traditional scroll. _Starts his movies with creative title sequences which express the theme.

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_His films often end in a suicide, attempted or successful. _Often Casts Brad Pitt, Seven, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. _Provides back stories filled with flashbacks. _Frequently collaborates with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for musical scores. _References to the band 311 randomly through his movies.

DESIGN BRIEF DARK REVELATION

FESTIVAL THE THREAD The character’s obsession is fueled by the dark side of the human psyche which forces them to face their internal struggles leading them to find the smallest piece of good in the bad/ light in the dark/ good in the evil.

THE STORY Obsessed inner city dectective traveling through the city at night.

THE AUDIENCE The audience will not just be those who simply enjoy the genre of film noir, but those who appreciate ones daring to push and often break the rules. They will be ones who enjoy a good mind game with dynamic plot twists, and those willing to be lead on a journey into the caverns of the character’s psyche. People who are dealing with an internal struggle.

THE SUBTITLE Fueled obsessions drives one to self destruction through the films of David Fincher.

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PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLORATION DARK REVELATION

WEEK 4

WEEK 5 & 6 Oakland, Ca

WEEK 7 Oakland & Martinez, CA

WEEK 8 Spokane, WA

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY ONCE WROTE, “THE WORLD IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH FIGHTING FOR.” I AGREE WITH THE SECOND PART.

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Graphics

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GRAPHICS« After coming up with the overall story for my film festival—inner city detective traveling the inner city at night—I decided that I wanted to use the vernacular of police/office/forensics. To create the vectors I printed on the kind of transparency paper the leaves the ink a little runny and photographed that on a light table. In between shots I would use water and hold the transparency paper up while the ink ran off the page. By doing this technique I was able to recreate the vernacular of forensics by also making it still feel like Fincher.

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IDENTITY

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YOU’RE NO MESSIAH. YOU’RE A MOVIE OF THE WEEK. YOU’RE A FUCKING T-SHIRT, AT BEST.

IDENTITY« The name Dark Revelation comes from the thread, Character’s obsession is fueled by the dark side of the human psyche which forces them to face their internal struggles leading them to find the smallest piece of good in the bad/ light in the dark/ good in the evil. I knew I wanted to in some form hand craft the identity, but I wasn't sure which way to approach it. After a few hand sketches I started doing some experimenting with ink in glue, ink in water, and paint. After succeeding by creating the dark out of ink in water to help emphasis the feeling of the dark side of the human psyche I was then faced with a new challenge of how to show the smallest piece of good in the bad through the word revelation. By hand lettering the word out of white paint on black and then taking sand paper to it I was able to create the feel of the internal struggle its takes Finchers characters to find the smallest piece of good in the bad.

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A DAVID FILM FESTIVAL

POSTER

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BECOME VENGEANCE DAVID. BECOME WRATH.

POSTER_ ADVERTISEMENT« The poster and advertisements contains all my original photography. The objective of the poster is to inform people about my festival, while the advertisements were created to get people interested in learning more about my festival. I decided to use the quotes from his movies to catch peoples eye.

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SIFF UPTOWN 305 Harrison St. Seattle, WA

6:00p.m.-2:00a.m.

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Business System

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BUSINESS SYSTEMÂŤ Staying with the office/forensics vernacular I decided to do the business card as though it was a ready to go toe tag that they use at the morgue. The same can be seen in the tickets to the festival. On the back of the card is a photograph from the festival, along with the logo, and website. For the letter head and envelop I used the same gradient for the inside as I did for the photos of the films in the catalog. You can also see my visual system through the use of the dashed line, the ruler graphic, and the mechanical layout.

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AND THEN, SOMETHING HAPPENED. I LET GO. LOST IN OBLIVION. DARK AND SILENT AND COMPLETE. I FOUND FREEDOM.

Catalog

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IT’S ONLY AFTER WE’VE LOST EVERYTHING THAT WE’RE LOST EVERYTHING THAT WE’RE FREE TO DO ANYTHING.

CATALOG« While designing the catalog I kept in mind the idea of having it be a limited edition. After going through trials with craft paper trying to create the office folders feeling I finally made a break through with press board. The catalog includes the biography of the director, an interview with fincher, and a section dedicated to explaining the festival, the schedule, and the location it is being held in. Each movie has its own section called out by a tab that includes a summary, interviews, images, quotes, and reviews. For the layout I stayed with the mechanical, modular feeling, trying to use big images and quotes to draw readers in.

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I AM JACK'S INFLAME SENSE O REJECTIO

ED OF ONS. NARRATOR

Catalog

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INSPIRED FROM SAN FRANCISCO’S FILM NOIR FESTIVAL THIS FESTIVAL IS THE FIRST OF IT’S KIND.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

» Seven_1995 » Fight Club_1999 » The Game_1997 » Panic Room_2002

Introduction

Zodiac

Opening, 4

Summary, 64

Fincher, 6

Reviews, 68

Fincher Bio, 8

Interview, 72

Its’ creation comes from the want to celebrate the new contemporary version of the genre known as film noir coming out of Hollywood.

Fincher Interview, 10

» Zodiac_2007

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Se7en

» The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_2011

Summary, 16 Reviews, 20

Summary, 76

Interview, 24

Reviews, 80

It is also an opportunity to celebrate those who possess the ability to push the envelope creating some of the most compelling storytelling, use of emotional and provoking visual styles, and can successfully merge the lines between fiction and what is reality.

Interview, 84

Fight Club

This year we will be celebrating award winning director

Reviews, 32

Dark Revelation

Interview, 36

Schedule, 90

The Game

Map, 93

Not only will this be a chance for you to view some of

Seattle, 94

your favorite films, but there will also be a chance to meet

Summary, 40

Entertainment, 96

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David Fincher, and a collection of his work Seven, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Fight Club, The Game, Panic Room, and Zodiac.

and hear from the man behind this incredible talent, Mr. Fincher. At Dark Revelation will give you a chance to lose

Reviews, 44

yourself in this brutally honesty, incredibly deceitful,

Interview, 48

and endless toying collection.

Panic Room

This collection showcases his strong visual sensibility and his use of the neo-noir stylistic traits. They also all

Summary, 52

incorporate his themes of darkness, a journey into ones

Reviews, 56

psychological psyche, and sense of obsession.

Interview, 60

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AUGUST 28 1962

FINCHER

DENVER COLORADO

DAVID ANDREW LEO FINCHER

INTERVIEW

AS A DIRECTOR, FILM IS ABOUT HOW YOU DOLE OUT THE INFORMATION SO THAT THE AUDIENCE;

David Fincher is an actor, producer, and critically acclaimed director. Influenced by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid he began to experiment in making movies at the young age of eight with a 8mm camera. The beginning of his career began at eighteen working for Korty Films continuing on to George Lucas’s special effect company, Industrial Light and Music. Shortly he began to direct commercials, music videos, and in 1987, along with directors Dominic Sena, Greg Gold, and Nigel Dick, they founded Propaganda Films. Producers in Los Angeles took notice of Fincher when he took a chance by making a very edgy

December 23, 2011 Alex Billington

WITH YOU. _BEHIND YOU WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO STAY

“phantasmagorical razzmatazz,” films are image driven, he uses a noir style to shots with low angles throughout his films. Fincher is able to create a sensually

_AND AHEAD OF YOU WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO STAY

overcharged experience for his audience, and is often seen as a born again

ENTERTAIN. TO ME, I’M ALWAYS INTEREST

realist who is innovative and meticulous.

TO ME, FROM WHAT I’VE OBSERVED AND FROM MY STANDPOINT, THAT MAKES FOR BETTER FILMS, RIGHT?

AHEAD OF YOU.

was… I can flip through channels and see on HBO a movie that I did years ago and I look at it and I go, “aww I coulda made that better. I could tell that story faster now.” It

to direct… A love story is too easy. A story of friendship

is a hard thing. I don’t know that final cut… it doesn’t

and personal intimacy, sexual intimacy, they are…

protect you from people saying to you, “You should look at

SOMETHING YOU HADN’T SEEN BEFORE? OR IS IT JUST THE WAY…

do not think final cut protects you nor insulates you from

F: I’ve seen people take odd people from different sides

people’s opinions. You have taken tens of millions of

of the street to team up to solve a murder mystery. I hadn’t

dollars to make a movie. It is somebody else’s money. So

seen this one. I thought she, in conjunction with him, was

you’re going into it and you’re hoping that if you can

a team that was unlike anything that I prepared for. Then I

align this actor, and this actor, and this actor and get

saw the Swedish movie and I thought, “Interesting…The movie

Fincher has a special gift for grounding fantasy into reality.

IN THE MOVIES THAT SCAR.

this chemistry between this, then get to Sweden on time

I have in my head is different.” So I talked to screenwriter

before it’s suddenly 30 degrees below zero every day and

Steve Zaillian, he was halfway through a script, and when

the sun is only out for three hours, you have all those

he sent it to me, it was kind of what we had talked about,

it has a lot of sodomy.” People are treated badly in this movie. That does not mean that it is not worth the journey

F: Not always. I mean, look, I look back on stuff that I

F: With Dragon Tattoo, do I need to make another serial killer movie the rest of my life? No. But I had not seen

this. You should really…” It’s not always that polite. I

BEHIND YOU.

his films, uses fear as a motive for his characters, and he often uses wide

I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH MOVIES SHOULD

WHAT ARE THE DEFINING FACTORS FOUND IN THIS PROJECT AND THIS

these two people, Mikael & Lisbeth. I hadn’t been asked

As a director his techniques often include use of a strong visual sensibility to depict unusual, and often edgy subject matter, uses a grunge style for his visual language, use of bone deep humanism, and humanistic impulse, use of

STORY, THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO DIRECT IT?

_STAYS WITH YOU WHEN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO STAY

commercial for the American Cancer Society showing a fetus smoking a cigarette. A reputation of creating edgy would followed him throughout his career.

Yeah! That’s my job. Light, to me, makes a mood. So the mood can either be an appropriate one or inappropriate.

because it’s harrowing. And as I watched the trailer over and over again, I thought to myself, “You know, it is the feel bad movie of Christmas.” That is a great sort of expression of what we want to say about it. And, in the end, there was a lot of resistance. And, in the end, to their credit—Sony execs—Amy Pascal, and Michael Lynton said, “Okay. You want to do that. We’ll do that. We’ll go there for you.”

I’VE ALSO HEARD THAT YOU ARE CONTROLLING ON THE SET IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT. LIGHT IN CERTAIN AREAS… F: I’m not controlling. I am…

things that are going on. I don’t know that final cut makes

which was: “Let’s bring them front and center. Is anybody

the movie better. Because when it gets right down to it,

WELL, SPECIFIC.

really keeping track of the Vanger clan and who is in the

I did not have final cut for Fight Club. And that’s a movie

F: Sometimes it’s right to be inappropriate. Sometimes

drawing room with a pipe? Or is all of this something

that you would expect a movie studio to step in and go,

else? An excuse for something else?”

“No, no, no, Mr. Fincher. Please.”

if you want to have a shocking murder take place, like in Zodiac, the fact that it happens at three o’clock in the afternoon on a bright, sunny September afternoon, that can

I think that the modernity, the thing that made it a new

And yet, you know, because producer Laura Ziskin, may she rest in peace, and Bill Mechanic were people of their word,

what was shocking about what took place Lake Berryessa, is

and because all discussions we had upfront about, “Here

that it happened in broad daylight. And here were these

is what we are trying to accomplish, and here is why it is

that’s what—author—Stieg Larsson was about and what he

seditious, and here’s why it should be done at this kind

was up in arms about. He certainly was talking about the

of scale rather than at this lesser scale. You know, there’s

dark black liquid underbelly of this other… Sweden is

a great place in the pantheon of risk takers if you go

_Innovation in camera movement, Creates

_Ability to disassociate the audience by

fluid tracking camera that provides access

effectively putting them into the psyche of

anywhere. A technique inspired by Max

the characters.

along with Kevin Tod Haug, and BUF Paris. _Low-key lighting with green or blue tinted color temperature. _Wide shots & Low angles _End credits as slide shows, scrolling downward rather than the traditional scroll. _Starts his movies with creative title sequences which express the theme.

setting and maybe it should be more idyllic. Perhaps it

simply was that. And you could look at it and say, “Well,

his arms, and holding his breath, it’s bullshit.

should be big puffy clouds with a pink sunset…” But, to

I wrote this, actually, to Sony executive Michael Lynton

about it was here they are and they’re going, “What is

at one point because we were disagreeing about something. I

that man all dressed in black for? What is he doing?”

me, the thing that was kind of blatant, and raw, and scary

backdrop. I love Chinatown. I am not really that interested

said to him, “I am smart enough to know that these ideas

in how water was brought to the San Fernando Valley, except

are going to be attributed to me whether they are mine or

in this case it’s a very interesting sort of thematic way to

_His films often end in a suicide, attempted

not. If you come up with a good idea, I want to take the

hold this investigation together, and worthy of its place

credit for it.” I believe that. I mean, I honestly believe

in the pantheon of movies. But the thing to me, ultimately,

if you show me something that I want take whatever I will

that was fascinating in the story was him—Mikael—and

or successful.

fucking run with it. You know what I mean? I am not a dummy.

her—Lisbeth.

_Often Casts Brad Pitt, Seven, Fight Club,

designed to be that, it just

maybe it should take place at… maybe the sun should be

only really a director if he’s stomping his feet, crossing

So all those thing were interesting to me, but that’s all

Ophuls, and Stanley Kubrick, and pioneered

people screaming for their lives and you go, “How is that really possible?”

with this. There were many things that people… there were concessions that were made. This idea that a director is

reports that would say to you, that there is a disproportionately high rate of rape in this country.

_Stationary Shots, Unfocused background with character walking into focus.

Well, I mean, it was not

still - I still saw it on the list the other day of the top 10 countries for women to live in. It was number three or something. And yet, Larsson would say, and there are many

_Often features several single frames that flash on the screen in the middle of a scene.

be... that’s what was shocking about the murder. That’s

take on the locked room mystery, was not the foundation of socialism on the Third Reich war profiteering… That is perfectly good and that is perfectly understandable, but

What I do not want is those ideas that I know are not a reflection of any of the thinking that went into the making

and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

of this thing. I don’t want that stuff reflected. I don’t

_Provides back stories filled with flashbacks. _Frequently collaborates with Trent Reznor

want it to reflect on me because it can be confusing. Look,

and Atticus Ross for musical scores.

nobody wanted to say “The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas.” Everybody thought it was coy.

_References to the band 311 randomly through his movies.

I laughed. I did it as a joke initially. And when I saw it on the screen, I thought, “Well, we are counter-programming because this movie does have a lot of…it is sinister and

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CRIME

MYSTERY

THRILLER

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SE7EN_SUMMARY

YOU’RE NO MESSIAH. YOU’RE A MOVIE OF THE WEEK. YOU’RE A FUCKING T-SHIRT, AT BEST.

MUCH CARE YOU PUT INTO EVERY LITTLE DETAIL. HAS THAT, OVER

So it’s not… “Final cut” is a little bit of a misnomer.

YOUR CAREER, BECOME SOMETHING THAT IS A CHALLENGE EVERY TIME

Final cut doesn’t mean that you are hermetically sealed away

YOU MAKE A MOVIE?

from people’s disappointment or people feeling that the

F: Well, look, I think originally… I mean, when you’re

movie is too long, or people feeling that the story can’t be

27 making a movie, it’s a different thing than when you’re

better told a different way. Final cut just means that, at

49 making a movie. When you’re 27 and saying, “I really

a certain point, you have the ability to end the discussion.

want the camera to be here,” there is all kinds of people

You have the ability to say: “I understand. I see what you

going, “Really? Don’t you think it’s a little too… ” And

are saying. I do not think it is a better version. This is

now I say, “I want to put the camera here,” and people go,

what I believe in. This is what I want to put my name on.”

“Let us get it there. If you will excuse us, we’ll put it

And there’s nothing that you can put in a contract that is

where you want it.” So, obviously, that changes. But that is

going to make people like it when you do that. So you

not to say that you don’t… you can’t stay sharp without

haven’t really circumnavigated any of the interpersonal.

friction. You need a certain amount of friction. I don’t believe in being the guy that everybody kowtows to.

YEAH! HOW ARE YOU GETTING THIS DONE? AND WHY DON’T WE SEE

But I do believe in being able to say, “Here are the things

THIS ELSEWHERE? IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS, TO ME, I LOVE—REAL

that I hold important in this,” and that people commit that

HACKS, REAL TABBING, EVERYTHING.

to memory. Not to be put in the position of repeating, having the same discussion about whatever it is again. I feel like I go to a lot of trouble to elucidate why it is that I want things to be a certain, specific way. It’s not out of whim. It is very much out of…, Trent and Atticus and I discussed early on, “How do you make it sound cold? What sounds cold to you?” Bells. Okay, crystal. Something like snow. We want to get a sense of space. So that’s reverb, that is echo. You need a kind of clarity of tone and you need to be able to create a spatial envelope for it. So there are all those things.

F: Because part of how the characters are being or how they are to be presented is about their mastery of this kind of communication. Mark Zuckerberg—it’s very important that you see somebody that even though he’s a punk in a dorm room in the middle of the night and he may be half drunk, there is a facility he has—a mastery—that he has possesses is very important to who he is at his marrow. It’s very important to what he accomplished, it’s very important to what he is fighting so violently to protect. It’s his extension.

THE OTHER THING I WANT TO MENTION, IT SEEMS, AT LEAST WITH YOUR LAST TWO FILMS SOCIAL NETWORK AND THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, THAT THESE ARE THE ONLY FILMS I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME THAT HAVE REALISTIC COMPUTER USAGE IN THEM AND REAL COMPUTER SCREENS.

1995«

SE7EN

The film Se7en is focused on Det. William Sommerset—Morgan Freeman—who is a homicide detective just about to retire. The film begins by showing the toll this job has taken on him. You can see that he is completely worn out and has seen so many troubling things during his time that he walks around with a heavy soul. Before he can retire however, he is partnered with a young, & ambitious detective, David Mills—Brad Pitt, who will be replacing him at the end of the week. Mills, who is fresh from the countryside and has a "take down the bad guys attitude" is ready to take on any case with a running start. Unfortunately, neither of them could have been prepared for the case that they were handed as Sommerset’s last and Mills' first. The cases, which turn out to be linked, are those of a sadist serial killer who has begun to stage gruesome and unheard of murders around the city. In discovering that the murderer is acting out the seven deadly sins, Sommerset attempts to walk away from the case, but there is something that keeps him from fully letting go and therefore, he teams with Mills in an attempt to take down the serial killer. However, neither of them could have understood the magnitude of the effect that the unspeakably horrible conclusion would end up having on the both of them.

You know, it is that great line in Broadcast News where

Now, you know, we argued back and forth over whether or not there would be the sort of plinky piano in the flashback

Albert Brooks says, “I see it. I say it in here and it comes out there.” You need to see this guy go machine gun typing

stuff. Eventually, he is Trent fucking Reznor. If I am

sound… Doc Bailey, who unfortunately passed away years ago,

talking to Stellan Skarsgard or Daniel Craig about who they

was a visual effects guy. I’ve never seen anybody hit the

think their character is, I defer to them. That is their

keys as hard as this guy did. He would go through keyboards

responsibility. I have to figure out a way to fit them into it

like two or three a year. It was almost like a punch. You

and I have to figure out a way to explain what my issues are

were just watching this guy… You know, my dad typed really

if something is X, Y, or Z. I will always shoot a take if an

fast. He could probably type 120 to 130 words a minute.

actor says, “I want to try this.” Abso-fucking-lutely, man.

But this guy literally… It was like Bobby Fischer typing.

I do not pay millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of

I mean it was like - this is a machine.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ONCE WROTE, “THE WORLD

dollars, to people to come in and be a hand puppet. You want them to author that. That is really their thing. If you

IS A FINE PLACE AND WORTH FIGHTING FOR.”

hire really, really talented people… I want to treat them like I want to be treated, which is go where you want to go.

I AGREE WITH THE SECOND PART. LEADING CAST

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THE CREW Arnold Kopelson, Phyllis Carlyle PRODUCERS

Best Writing Andrew Kevin Walker SATURN AWARD

Arthur Max

Best Make-up Jean

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Gary Wissner

Best Foreign Language

ART DIRECTOR

Film David Fincher

Howard Shore

Brad Pitt Morgan Freeman Gwyneth Paltrow John C McGinley Kevin Spacey

BLUE RIBBON AWARD

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Andrew Kevin Walker

EMPIRE AWARD

SCREENWRITER

Best Actor

Richard Francis-Bruce

Morgan Freeman

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Darius Khondji

Best Villain

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An intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching

Despite some truly fantastic work throughout

crime thriller.

the ‘90s and 2000s, Seven still remains director David Fincher’s best film, albeit by a very narrow margin.

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The filmmakers stick to their vision with such

A harrowingly bleak vision that haunted me

dedication and persistence that something

in the theaters and made my flesh slick with

indelible comes across, something ethically

fear even on this recent re-viewing.

and artistically superior to The Silence of

He handles violence with sensitivity, announcing its obscenity in spoken analyses and briefly glimpsed post-mortem shots, never showing the murderous acts themselves.

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the Lambs that refuses to exploit suffering for fun or entertainment.

UNKNOWN Director David Fincher contrives a stylish, intentionally ugly look that transcends the

BECOME WRATH.

pulp narrative.

MYSTERY

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PALO ALTO WEEKLY JIM SHELBY

An unrelenting examination of the evil that

The angles, the faded tones, the close-ups

may or may not be festering inside every one

and quick cutting to intense music were all

of us.

so unusual and disconcerting I was caught off guard. I immediately felt both mesmerized and at risk. And that was just during the opening credits.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

FILM 4

EDWARD GUTHMANN

UNKNOWN

Hannibal Lecter, say hello to John Doe.

Fincher and Walker take these hackneyed ingredients, play with them in the context of a brilliantly cohesive plot, present something consistently fresh, and very dark.

JOHN DOE CRIME

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FIGHT CLUB_SUMMARY

IT’S ONLY AFTER WE’VE LOST EVERYTHING THAT WE’RE LOST EVERYTHING THAT WE’RE FREE TO DO ANYTHING.

BRAD PITT ScreenSlam.com

WELL YOU ARE CERTAINLY ON THE ASCENDANCY AT THE MOMENT. ARE YOU AN OLD HAND AT THE FAME GAME NOW? BP: No it still throws me a bit, I don’t understand all

BP: I think it’s fantastic, I think we had a good puzzle.

of it. But you know we deal.

IT’S CERTAINLY KEEPS YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT.

WHAT’S IT LIKE WORKING WITH GWYNETH PALTROW?

BP: I think it’s very honest about it, you know, bleak

BP: Yeah it was a very viable character to the film. It’s the only bit of sunshine and she brings such soul.

but honest.

More important we had that balance. I think we we’re WHY DO YOU THINK WE’RE FASCINATED BY SERIAL KILLER THERE

1999«

FIGHT CLUB

1995

ITS EDITED BY AN AUSTRALIAN RICHARD FRANCIS BRUCE WHO IS UP FOR AN OSCARTHIS YEAR SO I’VE GOT TO ASK YOU WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE EDITING?

very fortunate to get her.

SEEMS TO BE QUITE A FEW MOVIES AND STORIES ABOUT IT. BP: I certainly don’t have the answer but maybe because being as tough as life is seeing people go to these depths, its just fascinating you know it’s horrifying but it is fascinating, why do people slow down at car wrecks.

Fight Club is told through the narration of Edward Norton who plays a young urban professional who is depressed and suffers from a terrible case of insomnia. The movie begins with a short look into his unhappy life with an unsatisfying career, and an apartment filled with materialistic objects. Looking for relief, he turns to support groups where he finds he is able to release all his emotions and cure his insomnia. However, his solution is short-lived when Marla, played by Helena Bonham Carter, begins to use the support groups for the same purpose. Outraged that someone else also is taking advantage of the support groups, he becomes miserable once again but that is nothing compared to how he feels when he arrives home after a business trip to find his world in complete disarray. With no one to turn to, he finds himself reaching out to a man he just met on the plane ride home. Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt—soap manufacturer—who is the complete opposite to the insomniac. It is through this new-found friendship that he begins to once again to find a release to his inner turmoil. He begins to let go of all his inner ambitions of being the perfect employee at work, and stops trying to look for happiness through the materialistic world. On the first night that they hang out Tyler challenges him to a full on fist fight. After the fight, insomniac is surprised at the pure sense of release he feels from his inner struggles. With a few more nights of bare-knuckled fighting outside of the bar they hang out at, they begin to form a following. It is through this new following that Fight Club is developed. The club is for grown men to meet up and kick the shit out of each

WHAT FASCINATED YOU MOST ABOUT IT? WAS IT THE CHARACTER, THE ENSEMBLE OF PEOPLE? BP: It was all these elements you know, I did like the character, I wanted to get something more human, more flawed more realistic. Morgan definitely was a king, David Fincher I think is one of the most intelligent men I have ever run into. And just love for the films of the seventies. I think this had that kind of straight forward feel.

other. Over time, the Club turns into more of a cult and the insomniac begins

GWYNETH PALTROW

AND THEN, SOMETHING HAPPENED. I LET GO.

to realize that Tyler has taken things too far. He tries to fix things, but he

LOST IN OBLIVION. DARK AND SILENT AND

self-destruct and realize that he has no idea how to get out of the chaos he

begins to discover the hidden secrets behind Tyler, himself, and the cult that has formed up around him. The more he tries to right thing the more he begins to has created for himself.

COMPLETE. I FOUND FREEDOM.

YOU WORK WITH BRIGHT TALENTED PEOPLE, YOU HAVE HAD A STRING OF HIT MOVIES, AND YOUR IN LOVE IS THIS THE DREAM COME TRUE FOR YOU?

AUGUST, 2013 Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub

BP: It’s pretty damn good isn’t it. WITH THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SEVEN RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, WORKING WITH SOMEONE LIKE MORGAN FREEMAN DO YOU SOMETIMES STILL PINCH YOURSELF?

HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THOSE EARLIER FILMS? GP: I only see flaws so I watch anything back but you know

BP: oh yeah absolutely. I just feel very fortunate. All my respect. I mean the man is so wise you know. And he has such a grace about him, it really helped me.

what’s nice is to have participated in films that have stood the test of time and that culturally stay relevant and stay good. And seven is a great example of that.

DOES ACTING BEAT THE HELL OUT OF ARCHITECTURE? BP: I don’t know I have yet to do architecture. IS IT SOMETHING YOU’D STILL LIKE TO DO?

THE CREW

BP: Yeah, someday.

Art Linson, Ceán Chaffin, Ross Bell PRODUCERS

LEADING CAST

AWARDS Best Effects OSCAR NOMINATION

Alex McDowll

Best British Actress

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Helena Bonham Carter

Chris Gorak ART DIRECTOR Chuck Palahniuk BOOK AUTHOR Jim Uhls SCREENWRITER James Haygood

EMPIRE AWARD Best DVD

Edward Norton Brad Pitt Helena Bonham Carter Meat Loaf

BEST SPECIAL FEATURES

Jared Leto

OFCS AWARD

Zach Grenier

Third Place Best Screenplay Jim Uhls SEFCA AWARD

EDITOR Jeff Cronenweth CINEMATOGRAPHER

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ASK MEN

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RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAL

DAVID ROONEY

The last great male-centric movie of the

A bold, inventive, sustained adrenaline rush

last millennium just arrived on a spectacular

of a movie…

new Blu-ray disc for its 10th anniversary, providing the opportunity of relishing every aspect of Fincher’s ultimate dissection of Gen-X masculinity.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

TIME MAGAZINE

KEVIN CARR

MICHAEL WILMINGTON

RICHARD SCHICKEL

There’s many levels of brilliance to this

A bloody, hilarious ride into the twisted

film, from the script to the acting to the

recesses of the modern male psyche.

7M PICTURES

cinematography to the overall directing.

NEW YORK TIMES

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

JANET MASLIN

BOB GRAHAM

The director of Seven and The Game for the

Delivers a sucker punch to the audience and

first time finds subject matter audacious

then pulls the rug out from under it. It is

enough to suit his lightning-fast visual

sensational.

I CONSIDER IT ASSHOLE TAX…

Working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, and can only act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence.

sophistication, and puts that style to stunningly effective use.

ROLLING STONE

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

PETER TRAVERS

CARRIE RICKEY

It is about being young, male, and powerless

Blistering, hallucinatory, often brilliant,

against the pacifying drug of consumerism.

the film by David Fincher is a combination

It’s about solitude, despair and bottled-up

punch of social satire and socio-pathology.

rage… It is about daring to imagine the disenfranchised reducing the world to rubble and starting over.

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WHAT IS THE GOING RATE FOR TRAPPEDIN-THE ELEVATOR ADVENTURE?

EDWARD NORTON WHAT WERE THE CORE IDEAS IN THE FIGHT CLUB SCRIPT THAT YOU

DID YOU AND FINCHER AND THE PRODUCERS DISCUSS WHETHER THE

WANTED TO GET YOUR TEETH INTO AS AN ACTOR?

FILM WOULD BE PERCEIVED AS IRRESPONSIBLE?

There is a serious corruption in the idea that is sold through advertising. In which one can attain true spiritual peace through lifestyle with the notion of building ones happiness from the outside in by acquiring things. Which is the essence of advertising.

EN: Fincher sent me the novel, and I read it in one sitting. It is obviously a surreal piece that operates at an almost allegorical level within one’s madness, and I felt immediately that it was on the pulse of a zeitgeist I recognized. It speaks to my generation’s conflict with the American material values system at its worst. I guess I have felt for a long time that a lot of the films that were aimed at my generation were some baby boomer perception of what Gen-X was really about. Tailored to a kind of reductive image of us as slackers, and to have a banal, glib, low-energy, and angst-ridden realism, none of which anyone I know relates to. They did not speak to the deeper and darker underlying sense of despair and paralysis and numbness in the face of the overwhelming onslaught of media information that we’ve received from the cradle. Fight Club seemed much more on money because it named a lot of what we resent about our inheritance. One reading of the book, I could remember aphorisms from it that had the immediate ring of a real generational voice welling up and crystallizing ideas about our being raised on television to believe that we all should be some millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, and saying that advertising has us working in jobs to make money so we can buy shit that we do not need. I called Fincher and told him I thought it was disturbing but that it made me laugh, because I recognized so much of it, and because the narrator’s plight is so desperate. I found myself relating to his self-indulgent but valid sense of complete dislocation. You just do not get to read generational nerve pieces like that very often. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUALMS ABOUT THE WAY MALE BRUTALITY IS

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THE GAME

NOVEMBER, 1999 Interview Magazine, Graham Fuller

EN: Yes. But we all knew what our intention was, and we had to proceed with that intention. You can not; not pursue a creative statement because of the fear that it will be misinterpreted. If you did, nothing of any substance would get done. When I worked on The People Vs. Larry Flynt and Gloria Steinem attacked the idea that the film got made at all, I thought that was an astonishing retrograde crit from a liberal commentator; it smacked of a fascistic kind of censoriousness. To say, for instance, that it was a film that presented only a certain side of a man whose life also involved these other complicated issues would have been a legitimate critique, but to say that it was invalid subject matter to make a film about was a much more of a

The Game is focused on Nicholas Van Orton—Michael Douglas, a successful businessman who has become so career driven that he has pushed everyone close to him away. It seem at first that he is incapable of expressing any emotion or showing that he cares for anyone but himself. His brother Conrad—Sean Penn shows up on his forty-eighth birthday with a surprise gift for Nicholas and swears that this gift will forever change his life. The gift is a game offered by Consumer Recreation Services. After going through a day long physical, he is rejected by the company saying that they can’t offer him the game. Nicholas, frustrated, goes through the rest of his day annoyed he wasted his time and focuses back on work. Shortly thereafter, Nicholas' life get thrown upside down. As the movie moves along, we see Nicholas struggle with the game's complexity and scheming. Every time we think he is close to uncovering the truth there is another layer of chaos and everything he has figured out thus far is wrong. Soon the game turns into a no-holds-barred assault on his life and everything he holds dear forcing him to watch as his life and business crumble around him.

However, it doesn't just stop there, throughout the movie the character

continues to take blow after blow until he finally reaches a breaking point and threatens the game company by taking one of their employees hostage. Just when you think there are no more twists, Nicholas is startled by his brother and he winds up shooting him on the roof. Distraught and giving to the madness of it all, he ends up quitting, and jumping off the roof in a suicide attempt.

dangerous statement than anything the film came up with.

Feeling complete frustration with the movie, it pulls the rug out from

under-

neath the audience. Instead of meeting his untimely death, he is greeted by I feel that way about Fight Club. Many of the things

an airbag in the center of his birthday celebration. It is there that he finds

that have been called subversive are regarded as classics

his brother is alive and that the game was in fact, just a game. His brother

including much of Oscar Wilde. Because some men pursue

then confesses to him that he arranged the game as a way to shake Nicholas back

their sexual obsessions with young girls, does that mean

to reality and make his brother enjoy life once again.

Nabokov should not have written Lolita? Should Martin

DISCOVERING THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS

Scorsese not have made Taxi Driver because there was the potential that someone like John Hinckley would use it as the excuse for his particular pathology? I think the

THE OBJECT OF THE GAME.

answer to that is definitely no. Art has an important role in holding up a mirror to the things unhealthy in a culture.

PRESENTED IN THE FILM? EN: Except in the scene where my character beats up the Jared Leto character, it is very stylized, you know? But

THE CREW

I do not think it rhapsodizes about violence. Face/Off

James J. Murakami ART DIRECTOR

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Steve Golin,

Propaganda Films

Jonathan Mostow,

STUDIO

Ceán Chaffin,

as a terrifically stylish film. I don’t think the violence

September 12, 1997

PRODUCERS

in Fight Club is by any means anesthetizing—I think

RELEASE DATES

Jeffrey Beecroft

it’s nauseating, which violence usually is.

129 Minutes

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

RUNNING TIME

Howard Shore

John Brancato,

LANGUAGE $109,423,648 BOX OFFICE

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FILM 4

JANET MASLIN

UNKNOWN

Regardless of how far one chooses to buy

Good looking, tightly controlled thriller. An

into The Game—and the ending ambiguously

exhilarating ride that prepares the ground

suggests that it could go on and on—there is

for Fight Club.

no doubt as to Fincher’s staggering expertise as a director and his almost clinical sense of precision.

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Douglas, who delivers a new shade of cruel elegance each time he plays another urbane monster, is the perfect star for this vigorously contrived thriller.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

MICK LASALLE

OWEN GLEIBERMAN

The picture provides Douglas with one of his

The Game is an intensely exciting puzzle-

best roles. If he doesn’t quite reach the

THEY WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE! I'M A GODDAMN HUMAN PINATA …

gimmick thriller, the kind of movie that lets

bizarre heights he achieved in Falling Down,

you know from the start it’s slyly aware of

The Game makes its own demands.

its own absurdity, which is why the movie can get away with it.

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

EXAMINER.COM

ROGER EBERT

CHRIS SAWIN

Douglas is the right actor for the role. He

Well-written, expertly paced, and undeniably

can play smart, he can play cold, and he can

riveting, The Game is perhaps most impressive

play angry. He is also subtle enough that he

in the way it strips down the Nicholas Van

never arrives at an emotional plateau before

Orton character. It’s very layered and each

the film does, and never overplays the process

layer breaks down Nicholas even more than

of his inner change.

the last.

USA TODAY

CREATIVE LOAFING

MIKE CLARK

MATT BRUNSON

A crowd-pleasing pip most of the way.

This is one of those movies that is so tightly written and densely plotted, that it leaves no room for error, or viewer queries. Unfortunately, the questions will start flying even before the picture’s over.

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Carroll Baker

English

Michael Ferris

Harris Savides

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Deborah Kara Unger Peter Donat

COUNTRY

SCREENWRITER

Michael Douglas Sean Penn James Rebhorn

United States

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makes more of a beautiful aesthetic out of violence than Fight Club does, and so does The Matrix, which I loved

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IT’S DISGUSTING HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU. _TELL ME ABOUT IT.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS Ask JimmyCarter.com, Jimmy Carter

The only thing I can say is the movie is about as unpredictable as it can be.

THEY SAY THIS MOVIE IF ITS ABOUT ANYTHING, ITS ABOUT A GUY WHO’S LOST CONTROL. MD: In real life, I think to a certain extent I am but I’m learning to change that. I DON’T KNOW IF YOU CAN I MEAN SOME PEOPLE JUST LIKE CONTROL, I LIKE CONTROL. MD: Well if your just an actor you can’t be a control freak because to many things are not in your control. You do not know when the next pictures coming, or what the next picture will be. And you only have so much control on how they are making it. So that part of your professional life is hard to have total control of. YOU’VE ALWAYS WORN A BUNCH OF HATS. THE ACTING HAT, HOW

THAT IS INTERESTING THOUGH THAT YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE ONE EVEN THOUGH YOU’VE WON AN OSCAR FOR ONE. I MEAN YOUR DAD I THINK SPARTACUS IN TWO SECONDS. BUT I CAN’T DO THAT WITH YOU AND ITS ODD. MD: Well I think I have done much more ambivalent characters, different types of characters. I mean dad also has a personification really having the voice the whole thing we know this character of dad, the leading one. I mean my favorite one of him is lonely are the brave which is different. I think I’ve been able to be more of a chameleon.

MOVIES WERE YOU’RE AN 88 TO 92 DAYS WERE YOU RUN AND JUMP AND HAVE WATER POURED ON YOU? MD: I hope not ya know I just like the scripts. The Game was one of the best scripts I read in a long time and it was a picture I wanted to do, but I kinda like to mix it up once in a while. IS THERE ONE MOVIE THAT MICHAEL DOUGLAS HAS REALLY IDENTIFIED WITH MORE THAN ANY OTHER ONE? MD: I don’t think so I think the thing I’m the most proud about or at least what I get from fans is, people say to me more than anything is that they say when I see your name I

Which I enjoy because it lets me play

different types of roles. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THAT ONE GREAT CHARACTER IS THAT WHAT

What I love about it is that you do not know where this movie is heading towards.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO THESE DAYS. ARE YOU GONNA KEEP DOING

2002«

PANIC ROOM

MARCH 24,2012

The film Panic Room focuses on Meg Altman—Jodie Foster, a single mother of an diabetic preteen Sarah—Kristen Stewart, who is going through a messy divorce that has forced her and her daughter to move to a new home. Due to a tight market, Meg has chosen a deluxe New York brownstone that has an unusual feature known as a panic room, which is a vault-like hidden space that will protect the owners from potential intruders. Pressed for time, she decides to move into the new home right away. The movie continues on to the first night they are spending in the house. After some light unpacking and a take out dinner we see the toll the divorce has had on Meg. After she binges on a bottle of wine and lets herself unravel in the tub allowing herself to break down about the divorce and the abrupt move, she heads to bed. It is then that we are introduced to the intruders Junior—Jared Leto, Burnham—Forrest Whitaker, Raoul—Dwight Yoakam, who are about to turn the women’s first night in their new home into a night of pure hell. Meg wakes up to the noises of the men as they try to figure out what to do about the fact that the women have moved in earlier than expected, ruining their plans of finding the three million that is hidden in a safe in the panic room. Right into survival mode and she grabs her daughter who reminds her of the room. Through a heart racing chase through the house they make it to the room and lock themselves inside not realizing that what the men want is in there with them. Throughout the movie, we watch as the men attempt to get into the room and Meg attempts to protect her daughter at all costs. Unfortunately,

YOUR ALWAYS KINDA LOOKING FOR OR NOT REALLY?

Meg never having time to hook up the phone in the room so the chances of them

MD: No I’ve always been I guess from my producing I’ve

contacting the outside world seem grim.

always been movie orientated I am just looking to make good

By the end of the movie, we are

taken through Meg’s transformation of being a woman who is broken by divorce

HOW DO YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK AND NOT HAVE

movies, because that is the only thing that matters to me.

and watching her take back control of her life and her fight for the safety

I think to many actors sometimes start to get so concerned

of her daughter.

about their image in changing scripts to fix that or are

A SINGLE PERCOCET.

only concerned about their part. I wanna make a good movie you know and if the movie is good it will benefit everybody. Making a good movie you have to have a director like David Fincher who did 7 was his last picture and a great cast with people like Sean Penn and Deborah Unger. IT CERTAINLY IS A GREAT CAST BUT IT’S A MOVIE THAT WE CAN’T REALLY TALK ABOUT A LOT BECAUSE IT WOULD SPOIL THE

don’t know what its going to be about, but I know its gonna

EXPERIENCE DON’T YOU THINK?

be good. And I’m just proud that the movies I have mad have

MD: I do. I guess the only thing we can say is it is about

all been pretty good over the last 25 years.

as unpredictable as it can it. What I love about it is that you don’t know where this movie is going.

LEADING CAST

AWARDS

THE CREW

Top Box Office Films Howard Shore ASCAP AWARD

David Koepp SCREENWRITER

NOMINATIONS

Ceán Chaffin, Judy Hofflund, David Koepp

Best Actress

PRODUCERS

Jodie Foster SATURN AWARD

Keith Neely, James E. Tocci

Contemporary Film

ART DIRECTOR

Jodie Foster Kristen Stewart Forest Whitaker Dewight Yoakam Jared Leto

ART DIRECTORS GUILD

Howard Shore

Best Horror/Thriller

MUSIC

GOLDEN TRAILER

James Haygood,

Best Editing

Angus Wall

James Haygood

EDITOR

Angus Wall OFCS AWARD

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ROLLING STONE

ROGER EBERT

GEOFF ANDREW

PETER TRAVERS

Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty

Foster nails the role, giving a tight,

metaphor or grandiloquent technical display,

focused performance illuminated by shards

Fincher is also surprisingly at home with

of feeling.

his hokum.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON POST

MARK CARO

STEPHEN HUNTER

Some clever, tense sequences in which

The movie is powerfully manipulative, quite

the trio devises increasingly threatening

clever and full of evil ambition.

Once we sense Panic Room is not going to cheat, it gathers in tension, because the characters are operating out of their own resources, and that makes them the players, not the pawns.

strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to find they are matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.

L.A. TIMES

SACRAMENTO BEE

MANOHLA DARGIS

JOE BALTAKE

There’s just no denying Fincher’s gifts. Give

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE…

The star of this movie is Fincher, who

the guy a camera or two or three, millions

has filmed it in a grand style that manages

upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art

to avoid showy excesses.

technologies, and there’s no stopping him.

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SHUT IT LOCK IT AND GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM IT.

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JOHN ANDERSON

One of the most ingenious and entertaining

Taut and forbidding, enough so that you won’t

thrillers I’ve seen in quite a long time.

mind the implausibility.

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ZODIAC_SUMMARY

HORRID. HORRID. NOT SO HORRID. HORRID. I’M THINKIN’ WE GO WITH NOT-SO-HORRID.

JODI FOSTER_ FORREST WHITAKER 2002 Unknown, Hollywood.com

NOW HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN ANY MOMENT OF PANIC ROUGHLY

2007«

ZODIAC

JF: Being pregnant on set was tiring. I spent a lot of time napping, and I got a lot of grief for it too.

The film Zodiac is focused on the crimes of the California serial killer who haunted San Francisco, Vallejo, and Napa. These men who become obsessed with catching the killer are Robert Graysmith—Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Avery— Robert Downey Jr. both from the San Francisco Chronicle, Dave Tochi—Mark Ruffalo, a detective for the San Francisco police. The film begins with one of the Zodiacs well-known shootings of Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau at lovers lane in Vallejo. A month after the shooting, Zodiac writes letters to well-known papers around the area that are encrypted. Instead of revealing information about himself he uses them to simply taunt the police. Paul Avery becomes involved in the case because he works as the Chronicle’s crime reporter, and Robert Graysmith, who is simply a cartoonist at the Chronicle, finds the

COMPARABLE TO WHAT YOUR CHARACTER WENT THROUGH?

case fascinating, however, is left out of the case by his peers until he makes

JF: Absolutely not. No I have never been a situation

correct predictions. That is when he and Avery become an unlikely duo. The

like this. And I hope I never will be. The great thing

Zodiac strikes again, this time stabbing his victims in Napa County. After a

about being an actor is that you get to experience

taxi driver is shot in San Francisco, detective Tochi becomes involved in

things in a safe environment, that you wonder what kind of skill might you have in the real world. FW: I tend to react pro-actively to threats. So times where I was threatened with like violence

or bodily harm

I probably would react differently from both. TELL ME ABOUT THE SET, WAS THIS JUST LIKE A REAL PLAYGROUND FOR YOU AND THE OTHER ACTORS? JF: Playground, ummmm… never been described in that way, No. I will say by the end it did look like a big garbage heap. In the beginning I remember walking onto the set going “wow great brownstone, wouldn’t this be a great place to live,” but by the end you’re like ugh I never wanna see this place again. Over time there were sledgehammers and plaster everywhere, with knicks and bullet holes and everything that has gone on in it.

collaboration will bring this killer down. The movie continues with more killings that Zodiac is claiming he is doing, toying with the authorities at every turn. Over time, we see how the case torments each of these characters as their obsession with the killer grows and their lives slowly fall apart. Near the end, both Avery and Tochi become so obsessed that it ruins both of their careers leaving Graysmith as the last one standing to investigate the killer, or as he puts it, as “research for the book" he is planning on writing. Although the circumstantial evidence indicate the killer Arthur Leigh Allen's guilt, the hard evidence of fingerprints and handwriting samples exonerate him. In 1991,

2002

Mageau from one of the first crimes that Zodiac ever committed identifies Allen

Unkown, On Set

from a police mug shoot as the man who shot him and his girlfriend Darlene.

sets I’ve ever been on. I was like blown away. The first day I walked on there and it was kinda like Yeah. I could see that you could just drive a car down the street like in the middle of it, I thought wow, this is cool, this is just something else. This is movie making.

Unfortunately, the ending of the movie leaves things unresolved as Allen died

I… NEED TO KNOW WHO IS. I… I NEED TO

HOW DO YOU SUSTAIN INTO THE CHARACTERS THROUGH THE SHOOT?

in 1992 before he could be furthered questioned by police, and we are haunted

KS: Well um I’ve never really been in like a desperate

by the fact that this horrible criminal could have gotten away with his crimes.

situation, and I had actually like a perfect little life,

STAND THERE, I NEED TO LOOK HIM IN THE

so in the beginning I thought well if I was in this

FW: I gotta say it was. It was one of the most impressive

position, and I would just think about that. If I was in

EYE AND I NEED TO KNOW THAT IT’S HIM.

this position how would I be feeling. Ya know, I would be totally freaked out. I think I’m a lot like Sarah so I didn’t really have to get into her character so I just tried to make it as real as possible. WHAT WAS IT LIKE SHOOTING IN THAT CONFINED SPACE?

HOW EXCITED WERE YOU TO HEAR THAT JODI FOSTER WAS GOING TO BE STEPPING INTO THIS MOVIE? FW: I thought she was perfect for the part. It was always like a little thing, Kristen Stewart always reminded me of a young Jodi Foster.

the case and begins to work with both Vallejo and Napa County in hopes that

KRISTEN STEWART

KS: Meg, in the movie, is actually more claustrophobic then I am but it helped us a lot because the panic room was actually small and um we were always usually in a corner and we would be just be sitting there for up to a half an hour at times, because the rest of the room would be filled with cameras and lights and stuff.

LEADING CAST

NOMINATION

THE CREW

Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film SATURN

Keith Cunningham ART DIRECTOR Mike Medavoy, Arnold

Best American Film

Messer, Brad Fischer

BODIL

PRODUCERS

Best Motion Picture

Jake Gyllenhaal Mark Ruffalo Robert Downey Jr. Anthony Edwards

Donald Burt

Screen Play James

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Vanderbilt

Brain Cox

EDGAR ALLEN POE

Elias Koteas

Robert Graysmith BOOK AUTHOR James Vanderbilt SCREENWRITER

AWARDS Best Film, Best Director, Best Thriller

Angus Wall

EMPIRE

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FILM.ORG

SLATE

NEW YORK TIMES

MIKE BOURNE

DANA STEVENS

MANOHLA DARGIS

Zodiac is long—over two and a half hours—

David Fincher’s magnificently obsessive new film Zodiac is part police procedural, part monster movie, a funereal entertainment that is a testament to this cinematic true gift.

Fincher, more subdued… and aching for a return to smart suspense films from the likes

but when it’s over, you almost wish it had

of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula, pulls

gone on for another 20 minutes.

us by the collar into the frame and cranks the sense of menace taut without cheap tricks or cop-out gimmicks.

OH GOD, SAVE US ALL…

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NPR.ORG

CNN.COM

BOB MONDELLO

TOM CHARITY

There are no tidy, last-minute plot twists

Low key but all the more compelling for it,

to make you feel good in Fincher’s Zodiac,

Zodiac is the first must see movie of 2007.

just focus—to keep an audience focused—and the most disciplined film making you have seen in forever.

THE NEW REPUBLIC

TIME OUT NEW YORK JOSHUA ROTHKOPF

GEOFF PEVERE

A modern American masterpiece.

It makes you want to study it even more

theatrical executions, inflated the serial

closely, in search of things you might have

killer genre to gothic proportions, the

missed, trailing after leads that flash by

movie Zodiac lets the air back out. It is

in the relentless momentum of going nowhere

methodical rather than macabre, clinical

fast. If you’re not careful, it might make

rather than cruel.

you obsessed.

NEW YORKER

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

SEATTLE TIMES

DAVID DENBY

CALVIN WILSON

MOIRA MACDONALD

Any honest neurotic could probably tell

Zodiac, the latest film from director David

you: the emotional payoff of an obsession

Fincher, is among his best.

is not attaining some longed goal—it’s

I'M NOT THE ZODIAC. AND IF I WERE, I WOULD NOT TELL YOU…

TORONTO STAR

CHRISTOPHER ORR Where Seven, with its stygian gloom and

David Fincher’s grim but mesmerizing Zodiac offers the puzzle-solving addictiveness of a detective story, the shivers of a thriller

the obsession itself, which fulfills certain

and the allure of character study, all with

unimaginable needs.

a dash of newspaper drama.

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ROBERT GRAYSMITH PAUL AVERY

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I think what’s interesting about

IF A WOMAN APPROACHES ANY BEAST

this is you have these sort of grue-

AND LIES WITH IT YOU SHALL KILL THE WOMAN AND THE BEAST. THEIR BLOOD

some murders that go along and I

WILL BE UPON THEM.

think that keeps me up.

THE GIRL WITH THE

JAKE GYLLENHAAL

DRAGON TATTOO

2007 Indielondon.co.uk

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH MARK RUFFALO?

WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO ROLE OF ROBERT GRAYSMITH AND TO

JG: Well, we only have a couple of scenes together.

THIS MOVIE? JG: I think at first I didn’t know anything about this

David’s put together a kind of unlikely trio. And with Mark

story. I did not know about Zodiac. I did not know about

and Robert Downey, Jr., they are highly experienced, much more experienced than I, and I was learning from them every

Robert Graysmith. I did know about David Fincher. I’d met with David a few times about other things and he sent

day. I mean, particularly, Robert I worked with a lot more

this to me, I read the first draft of it, which was very

and Robert is sort of like working in the eighth dimension.

different from the later drafts that he got his hands on.

He is sort of like Tinkerbell. Like the court jester kind

The first draft is very much a sort of cop thriller with

with buckets and buckets full of inspiration, handing

of dancing around you constantly inspiring. Imagine Robert your typical characters and I thought it was fascinating.

them over to everybody he works with and as an actor it

The murders terrified me and just thinking of David doing

is extraordinary.

the movie, I was totally in. A couple of months went by and he started working on the script and I read a draft that

YOU HAVE SO MUCH DIALOGUE AND SO MUCH SCREEN TIME IN THIS

he had done and it was 200 pages long. It was this sort of

FILM. WAS THAT GRUELING FOR AS AN ACTOR?

opus and the murders were still terrifying and yet there

JG: We shot non-CGI in six and a half months, 110-day

was still all this character stuff in between and all of it

a story about finding a serial killer. It was grueling in terms of the mindset you had to be in. Particularly with

The film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, centers around a newly discredited journalist, Mikael—Daniel Craig, and a troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth—Rooney Mara, teaming up to uncover a 40 year-old mystery of a missing teenage girl, Harriet Vanger. The film starts out by focusing separately on the lives of this unique duo, following the journalist as he backs away from his company to save the reputation of it and the hacker as she is struggling to gain independence from the state. Mikael takes the case to get away from his life for a while in hopes that by being away he will be able to lick his wounds peacefully and distract himself. Instead, he finds himself consumed by this mystery. During the movie, it comes out that the man who has hired him had a thorough and high level, illegal background check done on him. Though he is infuriated by the invasion of privacy, he see the potential in having someone like Lisbeth on the case with him. Midway through the movie, she joins him on his investigation to find a murderer of women. The closer they get to the truth however, the more in danger they are of losing their lives to Harriet’s killer. Working together also seems to heal the duo of their internal struggles. Mikael allows himself to be comforted in a way the he has received from his coworker whom he is having an affair with. Lisbeth begins, for the first time, to let someone into her life in a personal and intimate way. By the end, they are able to uncover the families darkest secret and save each other from an unspeakable fate.

YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THIEVES,

schedule, where you are talking most of the time and it’s

was real. All of it was real stuff that actually happened and I just thought: “This is amazing.”

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MISERS, BULLIES. THE MOST DETESTABLE

David, there is a sense in his movies that there is an WAS THE RESEARCH PROCESS SOMETHING YOU REALLY GOT INTO

interesting numbness in them. I think that comes from him.

KNOWING THIS IS BASED ON TRUE EVENTS?

There’s something in him and I think his process brings

COLLECTION OF PEOPLE THAT YOU WILL

that out, too. The takes he does and the way he does it

JG: When you’re working on it as an actor, it had less to do with me obsessing about the facts than why he found

forces you into this sort of state and within that

it so fun. I think Robert found it actually fun. I think

state is a David Fincher movie.

EVER MEET—MY FAMILY.

that’s what’s hard for people to understand is that this I think it is interesting for the people involved

man enjoyed searching for this person, where a cop would have done it because it was his job, or a journalist would

because there are some people who revel in it and there’s

have done it, as it was his job. He really had fun. It

some people who are disturbed by it. And we worked on it for six months. But the audience gets to experience it for

was like a kid at a candy store kind of, which I thought of an interesting duality or interesting juxtaposition

two and half hours, which I think is a big jolt to you

to your normal detective story.

when you are in that world. I don’t know if I would ever want to go back into the Zodiac world again but it is

WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH A DIRECTOR LIKE

quite a world to be in.

DAVID FINCHER, WHO IS SO WELL KNOWN FOR HIS VISUAL STYLE? JG: I think his visual style definitely takes precedence. As you can see in the movie it’s an extraordinary vision. I think this movie in particular was different for him Scott Rudin, Ceán Chaffin,

PRODUCERS

Donald Burt PRODUCTION DESIGNER

like working on Shakespeare. You have to stay within the

Tim Miller

iambic pentameter; you have to stay within the rules, but

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

within those rules I think are amazing discoveries.

LEADING CAST

AWARDS

THE CREW

in that he wanted to be more for the actors. And he gave us a space in which we could work. He knows what he wants; he is very clear about it and that discipline is sort of

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross MUSIC Steven Zaillian SCREENWRITER

Best Horror/Thriller Film SATURN Best Achievement in Cinematography Jeff Cronenweth

Daniel Craig Rooney Mara Christopher Plummer

OSCAR

Stellan Skarsgard

Best Achievement in

Steven Berkoff

Film Editing Angus

Robin Wright

Wall, Kirk Baxter OSCAR Best Performance by an Actress

Kirk Baxter,

Rooney Mara

Angus Wall,

OSCAR

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DRAMA

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CHICAGO READER BEN SACHS

CHICAGO SUN TIMES

This is never the kind of movie where they are going to fall in love. That she

of craftsmanship over material.

even smiles is a breakthrough.

VILLAGE VICE

WASHINGTON POST

J HOBERMAN

ANN HORNADAY

An altogether leaner, meaner, more

Mara’s bristling, unbridled performance

high-powered, stylish, and deftly directed

BOSTON GLOBE WESLEY MORRIS

ROGER EBERT

David Fincher’s adaptation of the international best-seller is a triumph

gives the film the ballast it needs to pull

affair, though similarly hampered by a

off that curious, undeniably engrossing,

too-long narrative fuse.

balancing act.

I don’t think I’ve seen an actor do more with deadpan expressions than Mara does in this movie. Her face doesn’t move but, whether she’s tasers a man or standing in front of a mirror watching a cigarette dangle from her mouth, we respond to her.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY OWEN GLEIBERMAN Fincher has made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo into an electrifying movie by turning the audience into addicts of the forbidden,

CNN.COM MARK RABINOWITZ

MIAMI HERALD

The dynamic between Craig and Mara in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is so sensa-

and third stories are any good as long as they are full of Lisbeth Salander.

I WANT YOU TO HELP ME CATCH A KILLER OF WOMEN…

looking for the sick and twisted things we can’t see.

RENE RODRIGUEZ

When it comes down to it, this is Rooney Mara’s movie, and I don’t care if the second

tional, it instantly propels the movie beyond glossy, high-toned pulp into something far more affecting.

REEL-VIEWS

USA TODAY

JAMES BERARDINELLI

CLAUDIA PULG

This is what a movie adaptation should be:

Fincher’s electrifying storytelling makes

a film whose base narrative has its roots in

the most of unsettling visuals, large casts,

the source material but whose soul can be

complex plots and sharp dialogue.

identified through the images that unfold on the screen.

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MR. FINCHER, YOUR TITLE SEQUENCES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS A HIGHLIGHT OF THE FILM. IT IS ALWAYS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW YOU INTRODUCE A FILM FIGHT CLUB AND THE TRIP THROUGH THE BRAIN TO PANIC ROOM AND THE SHOTS OF NEW YORK CITY WITH THE BOLD TITLES. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE APPROACH THAT YOU WANTED TO TAKE WITH THE TITLE SEQUENCE? FOR MS. MARA, THERE ARE ELEMENTS IN LISBETH’S CHARACTER THAT, FOR ME AT LEAST, FELT LIKE A VIGILANTE COMIC BOOK HERO. DO YOU SORT OF SEE THAT IN HER CHARACTER? DF: I want to address the vigilante comic book—I hope not. I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort

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of set the stage or to get people thinking in different

Collider.com, Steven Frosty Weintraub

terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be

It did not seem that crazy to have a bisexual character. Lisbeth is incredibly comfortable with her sexuality and I went into it the same. It didn't faze me. It was not hard to wrap my head around the notion.

ROONEY, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WERE GIVEN A LIST OF THINGS THAT YOU HAD TO DO OR BE PREPARED TO DO IN ORDER TO GET THIS ROLE BEFORE YOU AUDITIONED. I WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU COULD TALK ABOUT THAT. DANIEL, DID YOU GET A LIST OF THINGS YOU HAD TO DO IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR THIS? RM: The list was just, David had told the casting director to let me know before I went down the long road of auditioning that if I were to get the part that I would have to become a smoker and have to go off and be among myself for a year. I would have to be butt naked, do these horrible rape scenes, ride a motorcycle, and what else was on the list? DF: Skateboard? RM: No. That wasn’t on the list. DF: Was that later? I don’t remember. RM: That came later. It was just stuff like that. AND STARVE YOURSELF? RM: No. He didn’t say that. David was constantly trying to feed me on the set. DC: And me as well, but much more successfully. ONE OF THE MOST SUBVERSIVE THINGS ABOUT THIS FILM IS THE SMOKING. THERE ARE SO MANY CIGARETTES IN THIS FILM. I AM CURIOUS, WHAT WAS THE IMPERATIVE TO HAVE THESE CHARACTERS

going in. Often times when movies are marketed they are THIS IS A QUESTION FOR BOTH ROONEY AND DANIEL. THIS IS

marketed towards the idea of “What is the consensus that

OBVIOUSLY A BOOK THAT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE

everybody has that will get them into the seven o’clock

READ. PEOPLE HAVE THIS VISION OF WHAT THESE CHARACTERS

show?” So often times a title sequence can help to reorient

ARE.

WHAT DID YOU GUYS WANT TO DO IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE

their thinking. I liked the idea of this primordial sort

CHARACTERS YOU OWN AND NOT WHAT PEOPLE HAVE IMAGINED

of tar and ooze of the subconscious. I liked the idea that

THEM TO BE?

it was sort of her nightmare.

RM: To be honest, I did not really think much about what other people imagined it to be. I used what I imagined it

RM: Like David just said, I hope not. That was never

to be. I read all three books and I had a really clear

our intention. We always wanted to make her very human.

picture of who this girl was. Luckily, David’s idea was

We never really thought of her as a comic book hero.

pretty similar. I didn’t really think much about what other people thought of her. DC: Exactly. In this industry, the less you think about what other people are thinking about, the better and more original you can be. You can’t go into a project thinking. “How will these people like it? How will those people like it?” You want to be single minded about it. You can not

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please everybody. I WANT TO ASK DANIEL AND ROONEY ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP

MAP

BETWEEN LISBETH AND MIKAEL. IT IS KIND OF ODD BECAUSE THERE IS A BIG AGE DIFFERENCE FIRST OF ALL BUT IT ALSO SEEMS THAT BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T LIKE INTIMACY SHE WOULDN’T FALL

THINGS TO DO

FOR HIM EVEN THOUGH SHE SEEMS TO. WHAT IS YOUR TAKE? DC: I think it has a lot to do with honesty and trust. I think that is what was so great in the books. They should

AFTER PARTY

not have a relationship and they shouldn’t even meet in life. They come from different social classes and whatever.

SMOKE ALL THE TIME?

I think that Salander has never really gotten to trust

DC: People use to.

anyone or only a few people in her life that are straight with her and he is. He comes in and she has broken the

RM: Did you read the books?

law and has hacked into his life. He walks in and says, “Forget that. I think you are great and I would like

DF: Yeah. We took some of the smoking and some of the

to work with you and I’ll walk away.” I think that this

coffee out because in the book…there was a time during

appeals to her.

pre-production where they ingest, but it had a moment where it maybe took hold. We were literally going to begin

RM: I agree. It is that and also I think that he is one of

every scene with a cup of coffee and a cigarette burning

the first people in her life to ever just appreciate her for

just in homage to Stieg Larsson.

the way she is.

He is one of the first people to ever treat

her with any sort of decency or respect.

DF: But is that the most subversive thing about it? You hardly ever see that in mainstream films anymore.

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AUGUST 18th

THINGS TO DO_DARK REVELATION

6:00 p.m. Doors Open Music, Drinks.

7:00 p.m. Showing of Panic Room.

9:00 p.m. Interlude Music, Drinks.

9:45 p.m. David Fincher introduces Zodiac.

10:00 p.m. Showing of Zodiac.

12:30–2:00 a.m. RAVE at the EMP Center.

AUGUST 19th

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BARS

PIKE PLACE MARKET

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Doors Open Music, Drinks.

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7:00 p.m.

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in business since 1907. A year-round farmers market and a

Showing of The Game.

handicrafts and tourist-friendly knickknacks.

9:15 p.m.

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Interlude Music, Drinks.

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gleefully toss salmon to each other and crack jokes, always

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drawing a crowd at the fish stall by the main entrance.

10:00 p.m. David Fincher introduces Fight Club.

TINI BIGS LOUNGE

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10:15 p.m.

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BUCKLEY’S

the top. Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, it’s 605 feet

12:30–2:00 a.m.

tall and looks like a spaceship on stilts, towering over

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hours at the Pacific Science Center, Chihuly glass display, food court, theaters or simply watching kids frolic in a giant outdoor fountain.

OLYMPIC SCULPTURE PARK The outdoor sculpture garden spreads over 9 acres of

AUGUST 20th

a seaside bluff north of downtown, transformed from an

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

6:00 p.m. Doors Open Music, Drinks.

7:00 p.m. Showing of Seven.

9:15 p.m. Interlude Music, Drinks.

industrial backwater into the home of artwork such as Alexander Calder’s “Eagle,” six tons of red-painted steel that looks like an abstract soaring bird. Paths wander amid sculpture; for a longer, lovely walk, stroll along the 1.2-mile waterfront path in adjoining Myrtle Edwards Park.

Stop at the Seattle Aquarium to see what lives in and beyond the local waters.

6:00-10:00 p.m.

PIONEER SQUARE

DJ ICE DOLL

Showing of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Pioneer Square marks Seattle's original downtown,

1:00–2:00 a.m.

12:30–2:00 a.m.

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dating back to 1852. The district is characterized by late

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shops, eateries, and wooden piers jutting out into the bay.

August, 18th

David Fincher introduces The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

10:15 p.m.

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DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT There’s a broad sidewalk along the harbor front with

10:00 p.m.

LODGING

of the nation's best surviving collections of Romanesque Revival style urban architecture.

August, 19th 6:00-10:00 p.m. DJ GHOST

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WHAT IS THE GOING RATE FOR TRAPPEDIN-THE ELEVATOR ADVENTURE?

DVD PACKAGING« For the DVD packaging I also thought along the lines of limited edition. Along with my visual system of graphics, type and press board I decided to bring in three new materials metal, wood, and spray paint. I wanted the actual container for the DVDs to be very industrial and one that only had a slight look of destruction to it. For inside the drawers I started with the forensics Bio-Foam to stay along the lines of the vernacular, but found it to hard of a material to work with and it just looked like crap. So I moved on to MDF board. Along with a crafter we created a plan of action and made the insides to the drawers. Each drawer holds two movies, and leaving the last drawer to house the mini booklets. In each booklet was a shorter summary, trivia, quotes, and images. For the covers of the booklets I did silk-screening.

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» LEADING CAST CRIME

MYSTERY

THRILLER

Morgan Freeman SOMERSET

Brad Pitt DETECTIVE MILLS

David Fincher

R 139 mins

1999

Gwyneth Paltrow

October

TRACY

Kevin Spacey JOHN DOE

John Cassini OFFICER DAVIS

SE7EN

» SUMMARY

Se7en is focused on a detective that has given up on the world and is convinced that there is only darkness throughout it. However before he is about to retire he is paired with a young detective from the country who has a go get them, and bring down the justice on the bad guy attitude. Together they are given a case that has them uncovering hidden clues, and taking them through new twists and turns at every moment. Through this unique friendship, that grows throughout the movie, we begin to watch as Morgan Freeman character transforms from that man who is non-caring and who has basically given up; to someone who wants to fight against the darkness of humanity and fight for people like his new partner.

“Become vengeance, David. Become wrath.”

» TRIVIA

This was voted the eighth scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.«

Denzel Washington turned down the part that went to Brad Pitt, telling Entertainment Weekly that the film was too “dark and evil.” He later regretted his decision upon seeing a screening. All of John Doe’s books were real books, written for the film. They took two months to complete and cost $15,000. According to Somerset, two months is also the time it would take the police to read all the books. New Line executives originally balked at the film’s ending, but Brad Pitt refused to make the film if the ending were changed. All the building numbers in the opening scene start with 7. The climactic delivery was scheduled for 7pm. The word “fuck” and its derivatives are said a discernible 74 times throughout the movie, mostly by Brad Pitt.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX? DAVID MILLS

Website

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WEBSITEÂŤ Includes seven pages. Home page which contains the flying logo with link to ticket page. Festival page linked to map of Seattle center where the even will be held. Fincher page with a small bio. Filmography page with little summaries about each movie and links to a more detailed page about the selected movie.

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Tickets & Schedule

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TICKETS & SCHEDULE« For the ticket I also decided to use the vernacular of the dead toe tag from the morgue. For the schedule I wanted it to be easy for someone to throw into their back pocket and have it be easily accessible to look at show times, or when the

Barbara Smith TIME

08/18/2017

6:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.

SEAT

SERIES NO.

G—17

45679

VENUE

ADDRESS

Seattle International Film Festival Center

305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

FEATURED FILMS

»7:00 p.m. Panic Room

»10:00 p.m. Zodiac

DIRECTOR

David Fincher

DATE

NAME OF RECIPIENT

August 18th $150.00

No Refunds or Exchanges Property of Dark Revelation

ENTERTAINMENT

DJ Ice Doll & KMFDM GENERAL ADMISSION

TIME

08/19/2017

6:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.

SEAT

SERIES NO.

G—17

57794

VENUE

ADDRESS

Seattle International Film Festival Center

305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

FEATURED FILMS

»7:00 p.m. The Game »10:00 p.m. Fight Club DIRECTOR DATE

David Fincher

$150.00

August 19th

GENERAL ADMISSION

Ages 21 & Over

2017

NAME OF RECIPIENT

Barbara Smith DATE

TIME

08/20/2017

6:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.

SEAT

SERIES NO.

G—17

97879

VENUE

ADDRESS

Seattle International Film Festival Center

305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

FEATURED FILMS

»7:00 p.m. Seven »10:00 p.m. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo DIRECTOR

David Fincher No Refunds or Exchanges

ENTERTAINMENT

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Kitty Lectro & Nine Inch Nails Ages 21 & Over

www.darkrevelationfestival.com

Property of Dark Revelation

No Refunds or Exchanges

ENTERTAINMENT

DJ Ghost & CombiChrist

www.darkrevelationfestival.com

Barbara Smith DATE

www.darkrevelationfestival.com

2017

Ages 21 & Over

GENERAL ADMISSION

www.darkrevelationfestival.com

2017

NAME OF RECIPIENT

DATE

August 20th $150.00

Property of Dark Revelation

rave starts.

www.darkrevelationfestival.com

AUGUST 18th

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

6:00 p.m. Doors Open Music, Drinks.

7:00 p.m.

Showing of Panic Room.

Showing of The Game.

9:00 p.m.

9:15 p.m.

Interlude Music, Drinks.

9:45 p.m.

10:00 p.m.

David Fincher introduces Zodiac.

David Fincher introduces Fight Club.

10:00 p.m.

10:15 p.m.

Showing of Zodiac.

AUGUST 20th

AUGUST 19th

7:00 p.m.

Showing of Fight Club.

12:30–2:00 a.m.

RAVE at the EMP Center.

ARTISTS

6:00 p.m.

August, 18th

Doors Open Music, Drinks.

6:00-10:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

DJ ICE DOLL

Showing of Seven.

9:15 p.m. Interlude Music, Drinks.

10:00 p.m. David Fincher introduces The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

10:15 p.m. Showing of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

12:30–2:00 a.m.

LIVE MUSIC SCHEDULE

1:00–2:00 a.m. KMFDM

August, 19th 6:00-10:00 p.m. DJ GHOST

1:00–2:00 a.m. COMBICHRIST

RAVE at the EMP Center.

August, 20th 6:00-10:00 p.m. KITTY LECTRO

1:00–2:00 a.m. NINE INCH NAILS

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Soundtrack

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SOUNDTRACK« For the soundtrack I decided to put my good networking to use and hired a local producer to help me put together a collection of music that had the essence of Fincher's films. The soundtrack includes Soylent Grün WUMPSCUT Tormentor SKINNY PUPPY, Juke Joint Jezebel KMFDM, AM COMBICHRIST, Waste KMFDM, Disflux VELVET ACID CHRIST, Hell Two VELVET ACID CHRIST, Deliverance WUMPSCUT, Flesh KMFDM At the Heart, APHEX TWIN Embryodead, WUMPSCUT,Dudek WUMPSCUT,Buck Dich RAMMSTEIN-SEHNSUCHT, Untitled APHEX TWIN, Brute KMFDM-NIHIL, Another Corpse Under My Bed COMBICHRIST, Engle RAMMSTEIN-SEHNSUCHT, Stripped RAMMSTEIN-SEHNSUCHT, All Your Bass Belongs to Us COMBICHRIST, Hidden Track COMBICHRIST Vater Unser COMBICHRIST, and Herzeleid RAMMSTEIN. The housing of the bullet is from a real 50 mm pistol casing.

"Often the use of music and sound are hauntingly dark and psychoanalytical, acting as brainwaves channeling through the films, transporting the viewers deep into the minds of secretly disturbed individuals." ALEXANDER BELL

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» Seven_1995

INDUSTRIAL SOUNDS

» Fight Club_1999 » The Game_1997 » Panic Room_2002 » Zodiac_2007 » The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_2011

David Fincher’s movies use music in a way that very few movies do nowadays. Often the use of music and sound are hauntingly dark and psychoanalytical, acting as brainwaves channeling through the films, transporting the viewers deep into the minds of secretly disturbed individuals. ALEXANDER BELL

FUELED OBSESSION

» SONGS

Soylent Grün

Hell Two

Buck Dich

Stripped

WUMPSCUT

VELVET ACID CHRIST

RAMMSTEIN-SEHNSUCHT

Tormentor

Deliverance

Untitled

SKINNY PUPPY

WUMPSCUT

APHEX TWIN

All Your Bass Belongs to Us

Juke Joint Jezebel

Flesh

Brute

KMFDM

KMFDM-NIHIL

At the Heart

COMBICHRIST

APHEX TWIN

Another Corpse Under My Bed

Waste

Embryodead

KMFDM

WUMPSCUT

Disflux

Dudek

VELVET ACID CHRIST

WUMPSCUT

COMBICHRIST

Hidden Track COMBICHRIST

Vater Unser

COMBICHRIST

Engle

Herzeleid

RAMMSTEIN-SEHNSUCHT

RAMMSTEIN

» ARTISTS

Wumpscut

Skinny Puppy

An electro-industrial music project from

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian electronic

Germany. Founded May 1991 by Bavarian disc

music group, considered to be one of the

jockey Rudolf “Rudy” Ratzinger.

founders of electro-industrial.

BIRTH NAME

OCCUPATIONS

LABELS

MEMBERS

YEARS ACTIVE

LABELS

Rudolf Ratzinger

Disc Jockey

VUZ, Ant-Zen, Beton

Nivek Ogre

1982— present

PIAS Recordings,

BORN

YEARS ACTIVE

Kopf Media, OBUH,

Dwayne Goettel,

June 3, 1966

1991 — present

Subtronic, Nova Tekk,

Cevin Key,

Metropolis, XIII

Dave Ogilvie,

ORIGIN

GENRE

Bis, Art Music Group

Bill Leeb,

Munich, Bavaria,

Electro-indus-

Will Morrison,

Germany

trial

Mark Walk, Ken Marshall, Pat Sprawl

www.wumpscut.com

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www.myspace.com/skinnypuppy.com

GENRE Electro-industrial

Metropolis Records, Nettwerk, SPV GmbH American Recordings, Communications, Sub-Conscious,

I HYPNOTIZE WITH ALIBIS AND FINGERS MADE OF LEAD I SYMPATHIZE WITH FROZEN EYES.

What I don’t know, I don’t like. What I don’t like, I don’t want. What I don’t want, I waste. I hypnotize with alibis. And fingers made of lead I sympathize with frozen eyes. Turned inwards in my head. I realize to my demise. It is better left unsaid. That columns crash down endlessly. And I will end up dead. Go, waste. What I don’t see, I don’t know. What I don’t know, I do not want. Waste. What I do not want, I do not need. What I do not need, I don’t feel. What I don’t feel, I don’t say. What I don’t say, I don’t do. Waste. What I don’t do, I don’t like. What I don’t like, I waste. Theorize I’m on the rise But all I do is fall I victimize my love of life I have seen and done it all. Ready, steady, stop. Hurry up and wait. The tick-tick-ticking of the clock. Delineates your fate. Waste. What I don’t see, I don’t know. Waste. What I don’t want, I don’t need. What I don’t need, I don’t feel. Waste. What I don’t feel, I don’t say.What I don’t say, I don’t do.Waste. What I don’t do,

Combichrist

Norwegian aggrotech band formed in 2003 by

Norwegian Andy LaPlegua. They are based in

Atlanta Georgia.

MEMBERS

YEARS ACTIVE

LABELS

MEMBERS

YEARS ACTIVE

LABELS

Andy LaPlegua,

2003 — present

Metropolis Records,

Andy LaPlegua,

2003 — present

Metropolis Records,

Joe Letz,

ORIGIN

Out of Line Music

Joe Letz,

ORIGIN

Out of Line Music

Wes Borland,

Norway

Wes Borland,

Norway

Trevor Friedrich, Abbey Nex,

Trevor Friedrich,

GENRE

Abbey Nex,

Aggrotech, EBM

www.combichrist.com/

GENRE Aggrotech, EBM

www.combichrist.com/

» ARTISTS

Velvet Acid Christ

Rammstein

An electro-industrial band formed in

Neue Deutsche Härte band from Germany.

1990, limited popularity in Europe’s

The band was formed in 1994. Their songs

underground nightclub scene.

are usually in German.

MEMBER

SOME ALBUMS

LABELS

MEMBERS

YEARS ACTIVE

LABELS

Bryan Erickson

Fate, Maldire,

Dependent, EDT,

Till Lindemann,

1994 — present

Motor Music

Pestilence,

Metropolis, Off-Beat,

Paul H. Landers,

ORGIN

Universal, Vagrant,

Neuralblastoma,

Pendragon

Richard Kruspe,

ACTIVE 1990 — present

ORIGIN Westminster, Colorado

Church of Acid,

Christian Lorenz

Fun with Knives,

Oliver Riedel,

Calling Ov the

Christoph

Dead, The Remix

Schneider

Germany

GENRE

Slash London PolyGram Records

Industrial, Neue Deutsche Härte,

Wars, Calling Ov the Dead www.velvetacidchrist.com

www.raamstein.com

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SHUT IT LOCK IT GET THE FUCK AW FROM IT.

AND E WAY . RAOUL

Flying Logo

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FLYING LOGOÂŤ The flying logo was my favorite piece to work on. It allowed me to step away from print/web and create something in multimedia. Finchers movies always have amazing trailers that really puts you in the mood-set of the movie. My personal favorite is Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For the flying logo I really wanted to showcase the making of the logo. I also wanted to have it feel like Finchers works. I started by stop animating the making of the word Dark. After I put it into quicktime pro to create mini movies of each letter. Again I used my networking skills to find an editor who would help me to create what is now my flying logo. Jessica Rentola-Ramberg is a professional editor from Portland Oregon, and works for Fox. It was the first time I had experience as an art director with a working professional. Between the late night phone calls, the brainstorming, and a few cuts later it became one of my stronger pieces. As Phil always says "his favorite tool as a designer, the telephone."

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Product

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PRODUCT« I didn't actually create a set of products because I had already selected my four extra deliverables from the list but I wanted something a little extra. Before deciding what I wanted to create I went back to the thread, The character’s obsession is fueled by the dark side of the human psyche which forces them to face their internal struggles leading them to find the smallest piece of good in the bad/ light in the dark/ good in the evil. Also I went back to the story, Obsessed inner city dectective traveling through the city at night. From there I decided I wanted to create and obsession kit for the detective.

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Process

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PHOTO CREDITS Movie Stills_ Cecchi Gori Pictures New Line Cinema Fox 2000 Pictures Regency Enterprises Columbia Pictures Corporation Hofflund/Polone Indelible Pictures Polygram Filmed Entertainment Paramount Pictures Warner Bros. Phoenix Pictures Columbai Pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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