One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was just sitting there, waiting to be captured. Of course, this is not the case. It was meticulously, carefully planned and built. The Film Stage's Dan Mecca was lucky and honored to speak with Alexandra Schaller, the film’s production designer, about the agonies and ecstasies of bringing Train Dreams to life, as well as some earlier, accomplished work in her career.
Additional thanks to Schaller, who provided The Film Stage access to mood boards and behind-the-scenes photos from the project.
Explore here: https://thefilmstage.com/train-dreams-production-designer-alexandra-schaller-on-finding-beauty-in-the-land-and-making-small-films-feel-big/
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One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was just sitting there, waiting to be captured. Of course, this is not the case. It was meticulously, carefully planned and built. The Film Stage's Dan Mecca was lucky and honored to speak with Alexandra Schaller, the film’s production designer, about the agonies and ecstasies of bringing Train Dreams to life, as well as some earlier, accomplished work in her career.
Additional thanks to Schaller, who provided The Film Stage access to mood boards and behind-the-scenes photos from the project.
Explore here: https://thefilmstage.com/train-dreams-production-designer-alexandra-schaller-on-finding-beauty-in-the-land-and-making-small-films-feel-big/
Emulsion Ep. 11 - Restoring Hearts of Darkness with Fax Bahr and James Mockoski
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Emulsion Ep. 11 - Restoring Hearts of Darkness with Fax Bahr and James Mockoski
Raise the subject of documentaries about filmmaking and you'll probably first go to Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Or the film you’re thinking about instead was directed by somebody was thinking about Hearts of Darkness. Or, assuming the film came out earlier, it was perhaps directed by someone who later saw Hearts of Darkness and wishes they made a film as good. Which is no disrespect to any other film that fits into its genre––just to say that no other such documentary seems to mirror and match the subject.
Though long available, the film has––very much contra Apocalypse Now––only just been restored by American Zoetrope and is now rolling out in theaters. The effort was overseen by James Mockoski, who has served as a guiding hand for the recent spate of Coppola restorations and recuts. I was accordingly pleased to speak with him and Hearts' co-director, Fax Bahr, about the film’s legacy, its restoration, and what Francis Ford Coppola has planned after Megalopolis.
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One of the many special things in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, is the production design. Nearly every element of each setting feels like it was just sitting there, waiting to be captured. Of course, this is not the case. It was meticulously, carefully planned and built. The Film Stage's Dan Mecca was lucky and honored to speak with Alexandra Schaller, the film’s production designer, about the agonies and ecstasies of bringing Train Dreams to life, as well as some earlier, accomplished work in her career.
Additional thanks to Schaller, who provided The Film Stage access to mood boards and behind-the-scenes photos from the project.
Explore here: https://thefilmstage.com/train-dreams-production-designer-alexandra-schaller-on-finding-beauty-in-the-land-and-making-small-films-feel-big/
