Mark Olsen moderates a roundtable discussion with acclaimed directors about the balance between sticking to their vision and adapting to the realities of filmmaking.
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. I recently had the pleasure of moderating this year’s Envelope Directors Roundtable with the knockout lineup of Edward Berger ('Conclave'), Brady Corbet ('The Brutalist'), Coralie Fargeat ('The Substance'), James Mangold ('A Complete Unknown'), Denis Villeneuve ('Dune: Part Two') and Malcolm Washington ('The Piano Lesson').
The full video will broadcast on Spectrum and be available on YouTube later today. From our edited print transcript, the group began talking about what they can compromise on and what they cannot. Villeneuve and Fargeat said that, within the confines of their budget and logistics, they have an attitude of no compromise, as often as possible. As Fargeat said, “Everybody sometimes wants to try and change it and make a difference. It’s my job to keep it the way I had invented in my head.” Conversely, Berger noted that the vaping cardinal in “Conclave,” which has now become a meme and a fan favorite, wasn’t in the script, but was a response to the actor on set in his costume vaping between takes. Mangold, director of “A Complete Unknown,” said, “We all make plans before we start. But then the secret, at least in my experience — the work I’m most proud of is where I adapt. It’s not about compromise, but it’s that the world, the actor, in that moment, the weather, the location, the schedule, something within the very real confines that Denis was talking about comes up against your vision. … The reality is how we adapt to the s— that happens, good and bad, which isn’t about compromise, but it’s about being alive.” This holiday season has brought us a terrific bounty of films to round out our end-of-year moviegoing, with “Babygirl,” “The Fire Inside,” “A Complete Unknown” and “Nosferatu” all landing in theaters this wee
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