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Sam Lisenco has 0 designed titles in the Nutevio catalogue.
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Sam Lisenco has 0 designed titles in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, 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.
Lisenco 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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Benny Safdie
Actor
6 shared titles · Good Time

Natalie Portman
Actor
4 shared titles · May December

M. Night Shyamalan
Director
4 shared titles · Remain

Shaka King
Director
4 shared titles · Judas and the Black Messiah

Ronald Bronstein
Editor
4 shared titles · Good Time

Josh Safdie
Director
4 shared titles · Good Time

Michael Diamond
Actor
3 shared titles · Beastie Boys Story

Adam Horovitz
Actor
3 shared titles · Beastie Boys Story

Brady Corbet
Director
3 shared titles · Vox Lux

Spike Jonze
Director
3 shared titles · Beastie Boys Story

Jude Law
Actor
2 shared titles · Vox Lux

Al Pacino
Actor
2 shared titles · The Humbling
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