![]() This one is a little closer to one that maybe my friends from high school who watched sports a lot could get into. ![]() I think my parents are going to like it? I tend to make films that my parents don’t really like but that critics do like and which don’t make money. People are really dumb, and it’s fun to watch. Some kind of Cronenberg meets Dumb and Dumber - I don’t know, something in the middle there. You laugh but you feel kind of gross about it. ![]() I found that exciting, I guess, and if you know the Daniels’ work you know it’s part of what they do so well. Did they not understand what just happened here? So it became a sad laughter. Did people laugh at anything you didn’t expect them to?Īpril: I noticed that the laughter tapered off and turned into an awkward laughter after the reveal. If we knew the camera wasn’t moving we could shape it more.įilmmaker: This audience laughed at totally different things than the first audience I saw The Death Of Dick Long with. The house we shot in kind of just looked like that, and Ali, our production designer enhanced that feel with new wallpaper, furniture, and touch ups. The great thing about working in New York is that you get to work a lot in real locations, so going down to Alabama felt similar even though it’s a different world. When I work with, and with Sean as well, we like to light sort of 360. Eyeline and all the blocking, that stuff gets me excited. How do you shoot in a really boring kitchen that many ways? I was blown away we pulled it off. And to also shoot that kitchen in a million different ways. Zeke (Michael Abbott Jr.) is deep and Lydia’s (Virginia Newcomb) by the window where you can’t really see her. Ashley likes to block while the actors are blocking. It starts as a sort of Coen Brothers noir and then becomes this sad, beautiful thing. I was kind of worried about people watching it and not rolling with the punches. There were some scenes near the end that I didn’t expect would hit me as hard as they did. I was really stressed out, but I had fun, and it works.įilmmaker: Were you surprised by anything? Was there anything you shot that didn’t make it in?Īpril: I think they included everything. ![]() Other than the stuff, I would have done it the same. There’s not much you can really do in that situation. I think that I’m much smarter than these characters and yet I probably would have done the same things they did. In our talks: His pro tips on making a lighting package on a budget, the beauty of crewing up in a non-industry city, candid anecdotes from a bountiful career (100+ credits on IMDB) and the secrets to how his light helped coax the uncomfortable laughs of The Death Of Dick Long.įilmmaker: What’s your immediate reaction?ĭaniel April: I had a lot of fun. When the credits rolled, I asked April for his immediate reaction to the film and followed up with him later on his day off. First Match, Madeline’s Madeline and The Miseducation of Cameron Post are among the duo’s recent ventures, and in the thumbnail image above, Ashley keyed her gaffer with the flashlight on her iPhone just off frame. Scheinert caught drift too, and was able to invite more of the crew, reuniting April with Dick Long’s DP Ashley Connor, who he’s worked beside for many years. The film’s gaffer, Daniel April, the sought after lightsmith of New York indie film, still hadn’t seen the film, so I invited him to attend A24’s special screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown Brooklyn, featuring free wine and popcorn, the common bribes.Īpril had just gotten off the set of Betty, an upcoming HBO series based on Crystal Moselle’s feature film Skate Kitchen, when he arrived at the theater. It is the second feature film from one of Swiss Army Man’s co-directors, Daniel Scheinert, whose kooky debut portends the mercurial sensibilities of Dick Long, a cotton state comedy of errors with a hushed twist. I first saw The Death Of Dick Long at a press screening at Technicolor Postworks. A24, Ashley Connor, Daniel April, Daniel Scheinert, Good Time, Sean Price Williams, The Death of Dick Long
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