If you didn’t know anything about Jeff Nichols’ Loving, the first few minutes of the film wouldn’t look any different than the beginning of a 1960’s love story between two people from small town Virginia. In his 5th film, Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) tackles his first historical story, “an important story”, he says. While Loving […]
Most of the time, I can spot a first-time feature film director without looking. More often than not, those directors come from short films. The reason I can spot this is the simplicity in the narrative, which is what Imperium drowns in. Directors like Jeff Nichols make small-budget films feel humongous in scope on a
Midnight Special answers the question of what a “Jeff Nichols film” might look like on a larger budget. “It’s still a Jeff Nichols film,” he said at the packed North American premiere at SXSW. He wasn’t kidding, there are major notes from his two previous films Mud and one of my all-time favorites Take
It’s no surprise that Jeff Nichols‘ latest (his third) film, Mud, was the best thing to show at this year’s SXSW film festival. Two years ago, Nichols burst onto the scene with the critically acclaimed and unforgettable Take Shelter. He now returns with a script he wrote during the same summer as Take Shelter, and