Thanks to Torrance K
Fincher is wearing a “Psycho” themed T-shirt from Soderbergh’s
Spotted by Joe Frady, our cool-director fashion expert.
Category: David Fincher
Cross-Examining David Fincher’s Interrogations
Sheryl Oh
August 8, 2017
Film School Rejects
Allegiances are never simple in a Fincher film.
David Fincher makes some seriously memorable films. That’s like saying water is wet, but his movies are impeccably crafted without seeming ostentatious or painfully clinical. Arguably, the best part about his films is the talking. You won’t find a film of his where character dynamics aren’t laid bare in the form of a lengthy conversation. Literally putting words on screen has been a landmark of his since the beginning of his film career.
Notably, many of Fincher’s movies crescendo to significant arguments and interrogations, and it is never just run-of-the-mill grilling. He has the ability to make talking – for want of a better term – interesting. Part of what makes his interrogations so enveloping and immersive is the insistent, intimate focus on the subjects at hand. Characters are thrust into settings but also command them in cinematically satisfying ways:
Fincher gives us just enough of any given setting, and the details are always overshadowed by the manner in which the characters move and interact within them. (Jones, 44)
Fincher has a new Netflix series coming out in a couple of months; one which will undoubtedly feature some of his signature wordy conversations. While awaiting the release of Mindhunter, we examine what it takes for him to put together the perfect interrogation scene.
The Average Shot Length of David Fincher Films
By Vashi Nedomansky
07 Aug 2017
VashiVisuals
Analyzing the average shot length (ASL) of films / TV / music videos can be very telling or completely irrelevant. Taken as its own metric…it is just a number. The supposition that action / thriller / sci-fi films genres have a shorter ASL is statistically accurate but that does not mean a longer ASL means less tension, action, drama or intensity.
Here’s Every Single One of the 2,400 Shots in ‘Gone Girl’ and Other Fincher Movies
Liz Nord
August 9, 2017
No Film School
Thanks to film editor Vashi Nedomansky, you can take a bird’s eye view of some popular David Fincher films and analyzing every single shot used.
David Fincher: A Life In Pictures (2014)
BAFTA Guru
Published on Aug 4, 2017
YouTube
The BAFTA-winning director behind Gone Girl, The Social Network, Seven + Fight Club on his craft + career. From the BAFTA Archives.
Art of the Title: David Fincher
Interiors: The spaces in David Fincher’s films
Interiors is an online film and architecture journal, published by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian, that analyses and diagrams films in terms of space.
A Pair of Artists Use Architecture to Study Film
The founders of “Interiors,” a journal dedicated to film and architecture, diagram scenes from movies such as “Fight Club,” “Psycho,” and more.
Colin Warren-Hicks
January 30, 2014
Metropolis
If cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame, David Fincher is an artist who is very much concerned about all four corners of his canvas.
by INTERIORS Journal
June 3, 2013
ArchDaily
“Their positioning throughout the scene provides us with an understanding of how David Fincher uses space within the film, and in doing so, how he also maintains the architectural integrity of the film.”
Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian
2012-01
Interiors
“The vastness of the desert around them emphasizes the fact that the handcuffed John Doe is captured; a lack of freedom despite the free space around him.”
Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian
2013-01
Interiors
“David Fincher switches from a subjective perspective onto an objective perspective after the reveal has been made.”
Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian
2014-01
Interiors
David and Brad seem impressed by the latest toy from RED
Jarred Land (Facebook)
Jarred Land (Instagram)
July 7, 2017
Crazy. Last night it seems the entire the world was arguing over how insane we were (again) and how the Hydrogen display we are promising is just simply impossible. […]
Read the full announcement:
Order here: http://www.red.com/hydrogen
Link to PDF: http://www.red.com/hydrogen.pdf
More details by Jim Jannard, founder of RED, on the RED User forums.
Thanks to mikez
FincherFanatic (Blog) No More… Long Live FincherFanatic!
For a full decade, since January 2007, the FincherFanatic Blog has been the best source of information and news about one of the best directors of our time, and the unmissable gathering point for fans of exquisite and exciting filmmaking from all over the World.
Run with gentle fanaticism and infectious enthusiasm by FincherFanatic, it has officially ceased its activity due to “life catching up” with his author, who has kindly passed the torch to this site:
Posted by: FincherFanatic
July 6, 2017
fincherfanatic.blogspot.com
Not that this were actually a news-worthy item at this point: Life has caught up, as so often it does, and as I am sure you all have guessed at this point. Time for the fincherfanatic blog there is no more — enthusiasm for Fincher’s work and craft will certainly remain…
I am deeply thankful for you wonderful bunch of fincherfanatics that have assembled here over the years, thank you for all of your emails, sharing your links and resources, and once again: a heartfelt thank you to Mr. Fincher himself for allowing me to meet him for a very generous interviews a few years back. Fincher’s works have been great subjects of study for my own story-telling and film-making efforts. Creating and maintaining this blog for some years was an instructive and very very fun thing to do. […]
That being said, there will be no more updates to this blog. I saw Daryl has set-up a new Fincher blog over at https://thefincheranalyst.com/, which I hereby highly recommend, and I will make sure to drop by there in the future.
Daryl, good luck with that, and thank you for carrying the torch.
To everyone else, thanks for stopping by and sticking around.
It will still remain as an invaluable source of 10 years worth of information, so keep it in your bookmarks or add it if it is not there yet.
How David Fincher’s ‘World War Z 2’ Can Resurrect The Zombie Sub-Genre In Hollywood
By Pramit Chatterjee, writer at CREATORS.CO
June 29, 2017
Movie Pilot
Before we can fully realize how Fincher can significantly change the zombie sub-genre’s current direction, it’s important to acknowledge how these brain-eating beasts are currently being used in American entertainment. […]
Carrie Coon on working with David Fincher
The very talented and charming Carrie Coon (don’t miss her superb performances on “The Leftovers” and the 3rd season of “Fargo) offers some insights into her experience working for the first time in a film. A David Fincher film.
From minute 28:28 to 33:52:
Conversations with Carrie Coon of FARGO
SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Published on May 12, 2017
YouTube
Q&A with Carrie Coon of FARGO. Moderated by Jarett Wieselman, BuzzFeed.
From minute 21:31 to 29:51:
Carrie Coon’s Amazing Five Years
Little Gold Men (Vanity Fair)
August 10, 2017
Overcast
Podcast: 53:57
Emmy-nominated actress Carrie Coon stops by to talk Leftovers, Fargo, and what’s next.
The Fincher Analyst 