Before he became a director, Jan de Bont was the cinematographer on some of the most visually intricate, elegantly lit movies of the 1980s and early ’90s, including Paul Verhoeven’s The 4th Man and Basic Instinct, John McTiernan’s Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October and Ridley Scott’s Black Rain. When de Bont made his directorial debut in 1994 with Speed, the film’s kinetic energy and precise attention to light and composition were no surprise; what made the picture a classic was how finely attuned the visual choices were to the nuances of performance. Speed made Sandra Bullock a star, […]
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The post "The Set was a Circle with the Floor and Mirrors Rotating": Jan de Bont on The Haunting first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 10/27/2020
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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