Photography by David Fincher.
MINDHUNTER:
How Mindhunter Gets Under Your Skin
Overanalyze
Published on 15 Nov 2017
YouTube
A video essay analysing what makes Mindhunter so creepy.
Mindhunter is a Netflix original crime drama series executive produced by David Fincher set in the late 1970s in which two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters.
Features portrayals of real-life serial killers such as Ed Kemper, Richard Speck, Monte Ralph Rissel and Jerry Brudos.
MINDHUNTER Soundtrack CD out on December 15
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MINDHUNTER: Inside the mind of composer, David Fincher collaborator Jason Hill (part 1)
Kyle Kohner
November 9, 2017
RIFF Magazine
MINDHUNTER: Composer Jason Hill, of Louis XIV, never complacent (part 2)
Kyle Kohner
November 15, 2017
RIFF Magazine
How Stephen Shore’s Photographs Inspired Netflix’s Mindhunter
Alexxa Gotthardt
November 23, 2017
Artsy
In the first scene of the Netflix crime show Mindhunter, the camera trails a car through the run-down streets of small-town Braddock, Pennsylvania. We don’t know that it’s 1977, or that someone will be offed in the next five minutes—but the setting provides clues. It’s a rainy night lit only by moody street lamps and the beams of an AMC Matador police car. The nearby buildings ooze seediness.
The scene is lonely, unglamorous, and wildly intriguing. It’s also resolutely American—and whisks viewers swiftly back to the 1970s.
It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that the show’s creators were inspired by the pioneering U.S. photographers of that decade—namely, the great Stephen Shore, whose career spent capturing backroads, motel rooms, and lunch counters across America is currently being celebrated in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. “Since Mindhunter is a period piece, photography from the era was hugely helpful to all of us,” the show’s cinematographer, Erik Messerschmidt, tells me from Los Angeles.
Case Study. David Fincher & The Social Network
Tyler Mowery
November 21, 2017
YouTube
Today I look at David Fincher, his personal directing style, and the process that created The Social Network.
How David Fincher Uses Pop Music
The Discarded Image (Julian Palmer)
Published on 14 Nov 2017
YouTube
In this video essay I breakdown how David Fincher uses popular music in films like Fight Club, The Social Network and the new Netflix series Mindhunter.
David Fincher: ‘Moviemaking is a rat f*ck, every day is a skirmish’
Matt Thrift
November 12, 2017
Little White Lies
The alchemist behind Fight Club and Zodiac discusses his newest true crime saga, the Netflix Original series MINDHUNTER.
Netflix has come a long way since the launch of its flagship in-house production, House of Cards back in 2013. The first two episodes of that landmark series saw one of American cinema’s most fastidious craftsmen make his first foray into television. Now David Fincher is back and doubling down, helming four episodes of 2017’s most anticipated binge-fest, an adaptation of the memoir by FBI agent John Douglas, the criminal profiler who served as inspiration for Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris’ bestseller, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Fincher gave us a call for an epic conversation about all things MINDHUNTER.
With Mindhunter, David Fincher’s killer completes their journey
Netflix’s newest crime drama series is the culmination of a career-long obsession for the director.
Brogan Morris
October 22, 2017
Little White Lies
George Michael and David Fincher’s “Freedom! ’90” Music Video Gets a 4K Remaster
Headjar Productions Scanned More Than 30,000 Feet of Archival Footage for Channel 4 Documentary
By Bryant Frazer / November 9, 2017
Studio Daily
An iconic music video has gotten a rare 4K remaster. As part of a documentary project for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, director David Fincher’s promo clip for the late George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” featuring supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford has been rescanned from the original camera negatives at 4K on a Blackmagic Design Cintel Scanner and graded in Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve Studio to match the look of the original, NTSC-resolution music video.
Blackmagic Cintel Scanner Used on Channel 4 George Michael Documentary
November 8, 2017
Black Magic Design
Netflix Delivers a Killer Serial Killer Series: Production on David Fincher’s ‘Mindhunter’
In addition to serving as co-executive producer for Mindhunter, Fincher directed four hours of the 10-episode season.
By: Kevin H. Martin
10/26/2017
Creative Planet Network / Digital Video Magazine
The first masterpiece from filmmaker David Fincher was his feature film Se7en, a procedural featuring one of the most memorable serial killers ever committed to celluloid. Ten years ago he returned this dark territory with Zodiac, an adaptation of the true-life case involving a still-unknown killer who struck repeatedly throughout the San Francisco Bay area. In the years since, Fincher helped launch House of Cards (an adaptation of the successful UK series) for Netflix. He comes back to the crime investigation genre with Mindhunter, a 10-part streaming series that launched on Netflix on Oct. 13.
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In addition to serving as co-executive producer for Mindhunter, Fincher directed four hours of the 10-episode season, with Christopher Probst shooting the pilot installment. The other directors were Asif Kapadia, Tobias Lindholm and Andrew Douglas.
Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt shot part of episode two, along with the remaining eight episodes. Messerschmidt had served as gaffer on Fincher’s most recent feature, Gone Girl. He pulled double duty on this fall’s Granite Mountain, gaffing and shooting 2nd unit—the latter a duty he performed for next year’s Sicario follow-up, Soldado, as well. “Fincher was very involved in the process, which is to be expected. He was there every day,” Messerschmidt says.
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Crime Scenes: Evolving the Postproduction Process on ‘Mindhunter’
I recently spoke with Tyler Nelson, one of the four series editors, who was given the opportunity to move from the assistant chair to that of a primary editor on ‘Mindhunter.’
By: Oliver Peters
10/26/2017
Creative Planet Network / Digital Video Magazine
Mindhunter director Asif Kapadia on Ed Kemper and learning David Fincher’s style
Christopher Hooton
Nov 6, 2017
Kernels (Independent)
How do films make you feel? The Independent gets personal about cinema and TV with actors, directors, cinematographers and other people from the continually evolving world of “content” in a new fortnightly podcast hosted by Culture Editor Christopher Hooton.
Netflix‘s new original series Mindhunter has enrapt a legion of viewers with its smart, reserved style. Chris sits down with episodes 3 and 4 director Asif Kapadia to look at how it came together, how Brad Pitt‘s DVD of Senna led to his signing, directing an actor as serial killer Ed Kemper, learning from David Fincher on set, and how a season of TV’s episodes are carved up for different directors.
The Fincher Analyst 