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Rebecca O'Brien has 0 productions in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Rebecca O'Brien has 0 productions 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.
O'Brien 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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Ken Loach
Director
5 shared titles · The Old Oak

George Fenton
Original Music Composer
4 shared titles · The Old Oak

Takeshi Kitano
Director
4 shared titles · To Each His Own Cinema

Vincent Maraval
Executive Producer
3 shared titles · The Old Oak

Athina Rachel Tsangari
Director
3 shared titles · Harvest

Wong Kar-Wai
Director
3 shared titles · To Each His Own Cinema

Aki Kaurismäki
Director
3 shared titles · To Each His Own Cinema

Caleb Landry Jones
Actor
2 shared titles · Harvest

David Cronenberg
Actor
2 shared titles · To Each His Own Cinema
Ulrich Felsberg
Executive Producer
2 shared titles · Land and Freedom

Barry Ackroyd
Director of Photography
2 shared titles · Land and Freedom

Gerardo Herrero
Executive Producer
2 shared titles · Land and Freedom
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