SBIFF 2018 - Outstanding Directors - Group Discussion

now this chair I don't know you are made of steel yeah yeah muffin all right muffin sit well cracking my pelvis like I'm giving birth thank you again all for being here this is such a special thing to have all five of you and I guess to just sort of give a little context how many of you knew each other before this whole season did and and what sort of relationships if you didn't know each other have formed from just being it so many of these various ceremonies and festivals and things over the course the last six months Jordan Lee we could say well I I knew I knew nobody but you know this you know the the first person I met was Greta we met at a yeah we're friends and we you know there's there's there's definitely kind of like a you know a actor to director bond that we have and these gentlemen I've met in the subsequent weeks and you know it's I can't express how the you know you were it feels like there's this competitive nature to the season it doesn't feel like that it really you're I mean these are heroes of mine that I get to kind of sit and eavesdrop on their conversation is how it feels so it's cool Greta yeah yeah it's exactly the same I do and also because it's both of our first our direct writing and directing debut and then I feel like often I'm turning to you afterwards and I'm like can you believe I met you and I met you I also on a set I would was made a film with Rebecca Miller and one day she said oh that's just Paul by the monitor I was like oh no but but I was nervous and then I I got over it and then I met you in this time both of you yeah yeah and the photograph that day and we're photographed together like a group for 100 Hollywood Reporter yeah that we have promotion what do we have we have a blast instantly you know we Paul I love and admire his war but I we haven't met I'm wearing the punch-drunk love jacket I feel like I look like Adam Sandler after he was in water for three weeks but Chris and I have known each other for a while and have fun we you know visit the houses or talk or you know we're a couple of trips to New Zealand yes well I've known gamer for years and poor of them for some time we've bonded over the state of the world celluloid and trying to you know maintain infrastructure and he's been a very important ally in that so yeah help each other out with that over the years and and these guys had just met at the DGA for that incredible panel which is fascinating to hear you guys it's really fun that's a fun occasion yeah jerem oh and Greta I just want to when you mentioned a photo I thought you were gonna refer to one that was taken whatever it was two days ago at a at the Oscar nominees luncheon can you share who asked you for a selfie who did me take a selfie Sen Spielberg yes I was just do and when he said that I crane came down with a renovation the ceiling opened the store arrow came down saying I think we're ready now we just took a selfie but what a selfie man good it's it's a cool selfie I I feel like we're shining with so much happiness we're just so excited I've ever looked it is I like it I know that over the 6 you know these last several months it gets very crazy for all of you but I imagine you might have had a chance to check out at least one or two of each other's films and so I want to starting with Paul ask you if you can share something in one of the other filmmakers up here in one of their 2017 films that you were particularly struck by and impressed by so Paul we can maybe start with you and we'll jump around well the first thing I think of when I think of guillermo x' film is is really sally hawkins and her performance yeah I I guess I'd I felt for so long that there she was like right in front of our faces and like who was gonna be the person that could grab her and put her where she needed to be so that's the most memorable thing about that film is seeing her front and center and certainly Chris's film which he's always so sweet I always get to see them in the optimal setting you know we always get to see the right hot off the presses and I just remember thinking that as many times as you've done this there's no there's there's no greater pleasure than sitting in a movie theater now and saying like how the did he do that was there a particular moment where everything that was one of them like well how the did he do that really every single one of them and and Greta is again I guess I go right to I get guess I go - right right - sheersha you know again feeling like that was probably it's not jealousy but it's it's like you see this Irish actress suddenly be somebody from California more specifically sacrum so I was like well how did she do that and that's the best feeling when you feel a magic trick in front of you because all the things that you know about being a director sort of go away right and I got to see his movie in the in the middle of shooting in in winter in London when you know I really needed a lifeline and I needed something to inspire me I was cold and I didn't think we were doing well and I took myself to the movies on Sunday night because I was obviously an enormous fan of everything he'd done in television but it inspired me so deeply and hugely and it was also a connection back to my country as peculiar of that connection it actually ironically made me homesick [Laughter] who were you identifying with I've got to get back to my meetings right that those were wonderful and lovely sentiments I want to say that if you you know it's again totally understandable if somebody hasn't yet seen everything and also in the interest of time I'm gonna say if you if the others up here if you can just point out one moment from the other no but I mean that was terrific that's Guillermo if you if you can go and then we'll come back down it's very strange because to two conditions exist to admire a movie either you admire and you can't imagine how it was done which happens and then the other one is when you admire it and recognize something that is deeply personal for you and you couldn't have done it but you relate intimately and this is very strange for me to say but that happens to me when labor is very very hard for me to say because I'm in a Catholic girls school I'm not for Sacramento but but I am so much of it I I could see you know and and it was a movie when I noticed you know is this scene deceitfully simple it seems and is it was visually so controlled so beautiful with the right flourishes assured I loved it you know I loved all the words I would throw the PTA trick I don't want my one with knowledge always how the did he do it how the super quick and with mr. peel you know I just the moment he goes into the sunken place I went you know the rest I was going great writing great directing beautiful stadium and then I went oh we just cross the Vario sound you know so I was much quicker than PDA and PPA may I please when I found on thread I did a movie called crimson peak and I said oh that's the way I should have done it now I get it Jordan that's great so you know phantom thread really me up that movie was I loved I loved each of these movies for very distinct reasons they're all they're all masterpieces and by the way I should point out when I met Paul maybe three weeks ago or a month ago and I was like - phantom thread I'd loved it so much using really how did you see it I was like I'm a screener and I just saw his face go and I realized I lost Paul forever but I will say you know the there's a there's a scene in the movie where Woodcock is is that the the the New Year's Eve party and it's I all the the the emotion and the psychology and the the beauty the visual beauty of this moment are working in harmony in a way that is just a pure cinematic moment that you almost can't describe but I do get choked up thinking about the the character who is looking for the woman he loves who he realizes there's a rift between them that can never be who may never be mended may or may never make sense and this beautiful moment of searching for this person he loves that he simultaneously realizing he needs to let go in some way I don't know I'm I don't know if that's how you were thinking about it but that's that might be my I just it was one of those moments where I'm like okay this is cinema absolutely Greta oh it's for me it's like so I want to say something about each one I'm gonna I'm gonna do it for me it's all yea these moments in Guillermo movie which transported me and made me fall in love with love and it does this thing that only movies can do where you love the lovers and I don't know that anything else can do that and and it's the moment after that the water goes out and sally hawkins is behind the creature and the look on her face when she looks at richard jenkins and it makes me tear up when i think about it it's this look of you cannot shame me because I am in love and I just it's like the most beautiful it's the most beautiful thing other in in in Dunkirk I mean there's so many moments to choose the moment that is the most emotional for me is the moment that happens after killing and Murphy asks is he is he's the boy okay and he says he's yes he'll be ok and then he shares a look with Mark Rylance and what balance gives him his approval and it's a live but they're all it's for the good but also just the very beginning of it went the confusion you're instantly in the confusion of war that there's no they're being shot up by one side he gets away then all of a sudden the French are shooting at him then he has to go over here and you realize it's just it's just their children and it's utterly confusing and even that just made me cry instantly you're beautiful I feel like I'm gonna cry would I talk about all of these movies you're a beautiful movie the scene when he finally after he recovers from his first illness and he comes in any assert to to marry him and it's both perverted and sublimely romantic and it's so it's so beautiful and so funny in a way and twisted and how she's silent for a while she doesn't answer him and then he's like well why haven't you answered me that moment and your movie which I saw at the in the best possible way I saw and in a huge theater in New York City and everyone was screaming at the screen and to themselves and everyone was terrified and laughing and then people started crying when I mean that way it was just like what being in a collective experience watching everyone go through their emotions but for me it's at Daniel kuya's face when he says no no I'm not gonna talk about that and you see this well of pain that he can't he can't even articulate and it's this it's this tender detail and this tenderness that's in the middle of a genre film and and anyway it's I am done I've taken up all the time mr. Nolan well to be brief about it I I had the pleasure a couple of years ago of doing a Q&A with Guillermo so I had the pleasure of going back and looking at all his films and just to say it quickly when I saw shape of water I knew that this was one of the ones that came straight from the heart and is informed by his personal experience in ways that I have no idea what they are but I know that they're utterly sincere and he's made several other films like that and this was a new one of those and I found that very very moving Jordans movie I had no idea of what I was going to see I hadn't read anything about it other than it was great and how often do you get the experience of seeing something that you have no idea where it's going to go and then it goes somewhere far more interesting than you ever imagined Greta's movie I went to see and it felt familiar in all the right ways it felt comfortable it felt like a part of life that I knew and had experienced felt like memory and then you get out and in talking to my wife about it afterwards I realized that's not a relationship you ever see in films but it feels like you've seen it before it's so complete in the telling and it taps into I mean particularly those of us who have 16 year old daughters as I do it's who are into theater and all that it's it's very precise and Paul's movie I mean we were talking about it earlier but I made this for my wife and I made the slightly strange decision to take our kids to go see it and ever since every time I do anything vaguely I suppose they would say dictatorial it's Oh mr. Woodcock are you a spy get out your gun do you have a gun I've been hearing this for weeks and every time Emma cooks mushrooms now huge hysterics I've seen the film a couple of times and seeing it on 70-millimeter was such a pleasure and the thing I found strangest about it as it opened up on its photochemical version is it was suddenly very aware of the sound and the use of sound of the film is so extraordinary because it's it's simple and gritty and then extremely loud I mean the spreading of the butter and the toast it just you feel it up and down your spine it's it's amazing I mean I think all the film's they're incredible work and I'm very proud to be up there amongst these guys and the Alvie I'll be very very brief but there's a moment in Chris's film that I would like to discuss because it exists purely in cinematic way and it's another thing way at the end when finally the plane is landing and there's fire and and you know it's a point it's truly a born almost like a eulogy at the end of the of the battle and then is when he removes his mask and you can see his face it's the end and his the first thing you're gonna really fully see him as AB honorable human that is not fused with the machine and it's pure poetry and what you were saying it's so hard to talk about film because you can never encompass it with words what makes it work lies beyond the wars beyond the this the story the plot or the characters is purely a moment when the light hits when the camera moves when something moves magically and that's the ending of Bunker you

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Published: Wed Feb 07 2018