How did you arrive at the very specific tone of the film?
Adam McKay: It was always going to have comedic elements to it. But in the editing process, the tone was very tricky.
Features: Q&A
December 23, 2021
A Hero – Q&A with Asghar Farhadi
by The National Board of Review
The following questions and answers are excerpted from a conversation that followed the NBR screening of A Hero. What was your writing process like, as this idea has been with you for a while? Asghar Farhadi: When I was developing the concept of this idea in my head as a student, I was never thinking about […]
December 16, 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Q&A with Amir “Questlove” Thompson
by The National Board of Review
You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.
October 25, 2021
Mass – Q&A with Fran Kranz, Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, and Jason Isaacs
by The National Board of Review
You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.
October 15, 2021
Ascension – Q&A with Jessica Kingdon
by The National Board of Review
You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.