When "Locke" had its world premiere last fall at the Venice International Film Festival, it caught audiences and critics as a surprise, its catalog description perhaps unable to capture the film's specific impact.
There is another scene, once the siblings have grown up into Sam Rockwell and Hilary Swank, that captures the film's early, promising mixture of blunt drama and psychological subtlety.
(My colleague George Packer, in his recent Profile of Poitras, captures the film's range brilliantly. Snowden also spoke to Jane Mayer remotely at this year's New Yorker Festival).
He's carrying a steering wheel in one hand and has a message that perfectly captures the film's off-kilter abandon.
No major studio of the time would have tolerated the cynicism that courses through this film; nor would a major studio have been capable of capturing the film's agonizingly expressive shabbiness.
The sprightly "The Trolley Song" was nominated for an Academy Award, but it was the heartbreaking "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" that best captured the film's bittersweet nostalgia.
The final image — a freeze frame of a pas de deux staged to resemble a triumphal Communist poster — perfectly captures the film's overall effect: it's strenuously brainless.
Once the images were captured, the film received digital processing and treatment.
He also praised the cinematography for "perfectly capturing" the film, and described the score as "ridiculously cool".
Digital imaging technician Jeff Tomcho was tasked with ensuring that the Red Epic cameras were properly set up and successfully capturing the filmed footage.
