love and blessings!

I saw this film by accident, but......I bloody loved it! Good editing, good cinematography, good casting too. And such a great idea! Great work boys. Looking forward to the next one.

Qué hacer un canal en español puede que los veamos

About the color grading? Something to say? Great talk! Amazing work!

Amazing conversation! Incredible to see how they used the Rialto! Great work!

I love these breakdowns! Larry and Jomo are so articulate!

I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing Nickel Boys. Jomo articulates the creative process so eloquently, demonstrating the genuine care and passion that went into bringing this important story to life.

really loved this

Clarissa is amazing, this movie shines an amazing light on a great career

Beautiful work

Fantastic conversation, thank you so much!

This is the episode I've been waiting for. I am glad Jomo is getting the appreciation and flowers

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Finally, a recognition for DP Galo Olivares

i can have a sense of stability even without a queen. if you need a queen for providing you with a sense of stability you should consult your doctor.

Thank you for this @shotdeck! Always love seeing BTS, especially for movies like this!

Awww the baby is so cute

one of my favorite things about this music is the realism, realism in the since of the dialogue and story. and not a perfect happy ending.

I just saw this movie yesterday and now this popped up on my recommended!!

Big fan of Sam's work - can't wait to watch this movie!

Really loved this movie

This is one of my favourite films ❤ it resonated heavily with me

Pense que era la peli completa y me encuentro al boludo este hablando

Such an overrated movie.

I think Giger would have liked the cocoon

If they do the alien vs predator with Dan and Fede co directing, I hope they have Galo do the cinematography. Guy has an incredible eye for beautiful shots. Romulus is one of the most beautifully shot movies I’ve seen.

Sadly, no talk about shooting the offspring practically, one of the greatest sequences in this movie

Great "chest bursting" scene. One of my favorites, other than John Hurt's bloody surprise at the community dinner table from original film, this scene was impressive and very satisfying. Properly upsetting, nasty and painful but unique in that the surrounding environment and narrative consequences of the moment are particularly great. Her bodily reaction to the unfortunate sensation is incredible.

I really appreciate the interview, but you should take submitted questions from your viewers. Interaction is everything, this is the closest some people like myself will ever get to some of the legends you have on the show.

Fiilex Q10 👌

Unbelievable filmmaking. Great conversation.

i Wait of the Steelbook 4k of ALIEN ROMULUS.

I’m a mechanical design engineer, and also indie filmmaker…how can I help with building his camera???

I’m not sure if it’s a Latin thing and why shouldn’t it be but the scripts imo of Latin writer directors simply don’t translate well to English. Even listening to this conversation is hard work and these are eloquent individuals. I would rather read subtitles and at least hear the flow timbre and intonation of the language natively. It’s unfair to judge but it’s hard not to. Likewise there is a Latin aesthetic and again I’m not sure if it translates well at least for me. The cultural differences are even found in the commonality of cooking as a social bonding. Hard to image Ridley Scott doing that. The colour palette doesn’t translate either imo. It just doesn’t resonate and looks impoverished and very samey. It should be a plus when cultural identities can be represented and voiced but so much is lost in translation if it has to fit into a general contemporary aesthetic. Even the accents of the actors and the nuances in their acting feel wholly missed by the director and it’s hardly surprising. Not in just this film but in almost all films that require a strong cultural identity of the director to become universal. It just doesn’t work. Even Denis Villeneuve suffers from this. To my ears the script of alien feels wholly natural as I am English and the patterns of language and tempo are easily understood in depth but the characters in say Arrival or Bladerunner 2049 just speak from the page or from the mind. In fact they speak the way DV speaks. Too eloquent maybe. Too considered. I genuinely don’t care about his central characters most of the time as they feel inauthentic or perhaps two dimensional despite some exceptional acting. An example in the opposite direction would be Tarantino who writes in a language I understand and yet still feels foreign or novel but in a way that translates. Despite using many tropes and cliches as starting points he is able to shape them into three dimensions or at least give them personality through very specific language and tone. The logic would be that for international audiences a thread has to be followed that is more generic and will appeal to an audience who are perhaps the majority demographic for whom English is not their first language unless dubbed. This is maybe why there are so many Latin or scandi directors who cross over well to genres like horror or psychological themes where much is internalised, and these director writers often are characterised as visual storytellers. There are exceptions of course but the reality is self evident. Take a script from David Mamet, Tarantino or Sorkin or even any comedy and the differences are pretty stark. Humour is not universal when it is language driven and then needs translation. Hence we have the absurdist genre of Lanthimos able to translate in kind. The danger is that in translation these differences feel dumbed down as nuances get ironed out or just don’t translate and this serves no one well. The same considerations are often even more keenly felt in casting and the identity of the protagonists. DV protagonists are predominantly Caucasian and where making a break from that he often stumbles. Now we have the need to have multi ethnic casts reflect our own identity politics but this often wreaks of relegating characters to tokenism. The genius of Denzel Washington in many films is that you forget he is black. It just doesn’t matter. Is that because the writers are not black too or that the writing is so good regardless that it frees the actor to represent depth and nuance rather than just say the lines often because the lines themselves allow this and are never louder than the characters emotional authenticity. Ok this has now become a ramble. Hopefully it makes some kind of sense.

I liked this movie. It looked great, and I found the shot design elegant.

Galo's work on Roma was robbed.... Cuaron is a basterd

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Romulus was cringe as hell, such bad movie.

So good!

The opening conversation of this moved me. I grew up in Liverpool England and watched the 'making of's' more than the films themselves. When I was 8, I made a paper mache Jabba the Hutt (I couldnt afford the real one) I took it to school and proclaimed to my class that when I grew up I was going to work for Star Wars. When I was 25 I walked on to my first job on a film set: The Phantom Menace at Leavesden Studios. I would go on to make lightsaber props for the prequels. I'm 51 now run my own vfx studio and am currently in competition for an 2025 Oscar for an animated short film I made in my 'spare time' called Starship. Those films of our childhood, that magic is what keeps us all going. Great Interview, James Friend is a master of his artform.

First I thought it was a comedy bit, because the 2 look like clones. But then i was very impressed with the content and insight of the conversation and the images of the movie.

Thank you very much for such high-informative content! Strange Darling is so nice and fresh. Especially that dining scene.

Larry, such great content and enjoyable conversation with Giovanni. -todd constantine

Great conversation ! I remember shooting a TV Serie with and actor that he later starting a career as a Photographer ! but Giovanni talk an convence you of his Cinematography knowledge ! I like it ! thanks.

Someone sent out the "white shirt-under black long sleeve crew/black glasses/stache combo" memo. and I dig that! lol.

You know you’re in competition when the other guy has the same glasses and the same moustache

I'm so pleased at the seeming reemergence of natively shot film negative for features. - Twisters - Strange Darling - Anora - Saturday Night - Blitz - The Brutalist - Nosferatu - Maria - Kinds of Kindness - The Bikeriders - Trap There's no excuse to choose the inferior aesthetic of digital if you prepare for efficiency rather than just want to shoot haphazardly with some vague hope it's enough to cut something coherent together in post. If a specific extreme condition requires a digital camera, that's different, but it being the standard for anything and everything has ruined cinema.

It is interesting when actors work behind the lens as well.

Soo good - these two are an inspiration. Would love to see an uncut version of this interview!