Jeff Nichols Appreciation Thread

Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud were all excellent.

Just saw on IMDB he newest film, Midnight Special, is completed.

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A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

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Cast:
Joel Edgerton
Adam Driver
Kristen Dunst
Michale Shannon
Sam Shepard

SXSW: Jeff Nichols & Michael Shannon Talk 'Midnight Special,' Screen First Footage From The Film
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While Nichols kept coy, both before and after, about the context of the clip or what the larger movie was about (the plot follows a father and son who must evade government officials when they learn the boy has supernatural powers), his earlier comments to us that he wanted to make a movie that looked and felt like an old John Carpenter film certainly rang true. The hallmarks of Carpenter's work — twinkly lights against a jet black night sky, super anamorphic lenses that distort background images into abstract blobs, deliberate camera movements and framing, a glitchy electronic score — were all present, but refracted through the gritty, slightly heightened working class world of Nichols.

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