As a cinematographer, if you spend the bulk of your career shooting classy big-budget productions for Hollywood heavyweights, it’s conceivable that you might occasionally get a B-movie hankering: Even gourmet chefs crave the sloppy pleasures of a Big Mac now and then. Janusz Kaminski gets the urge rarely, it seems, but when it strikes, he takes to the director’s chair. Back in 2000, Steven Spielberg’s trusty Dp made an ignominious helming debut with “Lost Souls,” an incoherent occult horror that wasn’t even the tasty kind of trash. Two decades later, things haven’t overly improved with “American Dream,” the noble-sounding title of which does little to dignify the dingy exploitation exercise lurking below: a thriller in which the American pursuit of happiness is no match for the dogged chase given by ticked-off Russian mobsters.
The relative novelty of Kaminski’s attachment in this capacity superficially distinguishes “American...
The relative novelty of Kaminski’s attachment in this capacity superficially distinguishes “American...
- 1/12/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
MAZEfilms, Inc. has begun pre-production on a $25 million feature, Eli , to be shot in North America and parts of Europe. Daniel Maze will direct from a script by Maze and Alexander Yurchikov. "Eli" will be produced by Saskia Boedt, photographed by Keith Dunkerley, and scored by Konstantinos Zacharopoulos. Principal photography will begin in the fall of 2010 in stereoscopic 3D. The film is a fantasy which focuses on a young boy who discovers that his teacher is a witch intent on stealing the soul of his ill sister. After Eli discovers her intentions, an angel appears to help him defeat the witch and conquer his fears.
- 4/6/2010
- Comingsoon.net
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