Why this filmmaker matters
Michael McDonough has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
Performer
Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Michael McDonough 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.
McDonough 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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Debra Granik
Director
4 shared titles · Leave No Trace
Anne Rosellini
Producer
4 shared titles · Leave No Trace

Natalie Portman
Actor
3 shared titles · New York, I Love You

Shunji Iwai
Director
3 shared titles · New York, I Love You

Dale Dickey
Actor
2 shared titles · Leave No Trace

Allison Janney
Actor
2 shared titles · Lou

John Leguizamo
Actor
2 shared titles · The Babysitters

Dickon Hinchliffe
Original Music Composer
2 shared titles · Leave No Trace
Maggie Cohn
Screenplay
2 shared titles · Lou

Affonso Gonçalves
Editor
2 shared titles · Winter's Bone

Fatih Akin
Director
2 shared titles · New York, I Love You

Joshua Marston
Director
2 shared titles · New York, I Love You
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