‘None of us had been on a film set before. Someone had to help me find the camera’s on-off switch’
I met Joel Coen at a party in Manhattan in 1982. We got talking about how great the cinematography was in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend. He explained how he and his brother Ethan wanted to shoot a dummy trailer to try and raise $750,000 for a noir script they had written called Blood Simple. I had just graduated from Nyu film school and recently bought a used 16mm camera. I said: “I own a camera.” Joel said: “You’re hired.”
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I met Joel Coen at a party in Manhattan in 1982. We got talking about how great the cinematography was in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend. He explained how he and his brother Ethan wanted to shoot a dummy trailer to try and raise $750,000 for a noir script they had written called Blood Simple. I had just graduated from Nyu film school and recently bought a used 16mm camera. I said: “I own a camera.” Joel said: “You’re hired.”
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- 11/6/2017
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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