Why this filmmaker matters
Jan de Bont has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.

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Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jan de Bont has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are visual style, rewatchability, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Bont set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Michael Douglas
Actor
7 shared titles · Shining Through

Paul Verhoeven
Actor
4 shared titles · Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone

Michael Kahn
Editor
4 shared titles · Twister

Lee Daniels
Director
3 shared titles · The Paperboy

Michael Kamen
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · Shining Through

David Seltzer
Director
3 shared titles · Shining Through

Mark Mancina
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · Speed 2: Cruise Control

Scott Glenn
Actor
2 shared titles · The Paperboy

Liam Neeson
Actor
2 shared titles · Shining Through

Sharon Stone
Actor
2 shared titles · Basic Instinct

Bruce Willis
Actor
2 shared titles · Bruce Willis : les secrets d'une icône

Joe Eszterhas
Actor
2 shared titles · Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
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