Selections from David Fincher.
A few highlights from "Behind Button: A Conversation with David Fincher," hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Kent Jones to close out their Fincher retrospective pairing the director's work with films he likes, a set-up that yielded the whiplash double feature of "Se7en" and "Mary Poppins." He was drawn to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" because it seemed to offer "a more complete telling of a love story... because it involved one being there to help the other pass on," and found that "there were a lot of moments in the script that were semi-clichés" that he believed were overturned by the backward-aging structure. His original conception of the visual style of the film was based on Andrew Wyeth, sparse, fields of grain and lots of shots over characters' shoulders, something that went out the window upon seeing New Orleans. On the aforementioned double feature: "'Mary Poppins'...
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