{"id":30667,"date":"2014-02-15T18:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30667"},"modified":"2014-02-15T18:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T02:18:37","slug":"outstanding-director-award-david-o-russell-sbiff-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=30667","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Director Award &#8211; David O. Russell, SBIFF 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Caroline Juul Mortensen\u00a0at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2014<\/p>\n<p>(Creative review)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30669\" alt=\"1.31.2014.David.O.Russell.SBIFF_5\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.31.2014.David_.O.Russell.SBIFF_5-325x216.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.31.2014.David_.O.Russell.SBIFF_5-325x216.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1.31.2014.David_.O.Russell.SBIFF_5.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>: irector of 11 movies, writer of 8 scripts and Producer of 8 movies<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: merican Hustle (2013) is nominated for 10 Oscars, it has 45 wins and 80 other nominations<\/p>\n<p><strong>V<\/strong>: ague is not a word you would use to describe Russell\u2019s work<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>: am a huge fan of David O. Russell and I fell even more in love with him after this interview<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>: id in the end of the interview say: \u201cYeah, I\u2019m a late\u00a0bloomer\u201d because his first directional effort was in the 1994 independent dark comedy \u201cSpanking the Monkey\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>O<\/strong>: wned the interview with Roger Durling Friday night January 31st<\/p>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong>: inner of SBIFF Outstanding Director Award 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>: nded up agreeing with Durling that he is now more prone to seek the delights of what too-short life\u00a0offers than he was before<\/p>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong>: oted that Jennifer Lawrence is a \u201cgift\u201d in his films<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong>: \u201cussel has matured into one of the most essential voices in film today\u201d recalled SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling<\/p>\n<p><strong>U<\/strong>: ses techniques like handhold camera, Steadicam, shot on Ektachrome slide photography stock, filming explosions in one shot etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>: tarted out as a waiter and served for celebrities in Hollywood<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>: pent his spare time on writing scripts and documenting his experiences after majoring in English and Political Science at Amherst College<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>: asier to interview Russell now than Durling\u2019s first interviews with him years ago<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>: ots of jokes about who was controlling the interview \u2013 Russell or Durling?<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>: adder with thousands of steps is what you need if you want to reach David O. Russell\u2019s level of film making<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Caroline Juul Mortensen\u00a0at Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2014 (Creative review) D: irector of 11 movies, writer of 8 scripts and Producer of 8 movies A: merican Hustle (2013) is nominated for 10 Oscars, it has 45 wins and 80 other nominations V: ague is not a word you would use to describe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}