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Jim May has 0 titles cut 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.
May 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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Stephen Sommers
Executive Producer
9 shared titles · G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Bob Ducsay
Editor
7 shared titles · Van Helsing

Paul Wernick
Writer
4 shared titles · G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Rhett Reese
Writer
4 shared titles · G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Dwayne Johnson
Actor
3 shared titles · G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Liam Neeson
Actor
3 shared titles · The A-Team

Alan Silvestri
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · The A-Team

Neal H. Moritz
Producer
3 shared titles · Goosebumps

Jeff Wadlow
Screenplay
3 shared titles · Bloodshot

Steve Jablonsky
Original Music Composer
3 shared titles · Bloodshot

Andrew Adamson
Director
3 shared titles · The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Jonathan Pryce
Actor
2 shared titles · G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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