Into the Woods Shane Carruth takes moviemaking back to the basics

摘要

THERE ARE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS, AND then there is Shane Carruth. In 2001, Carruth quit working as a software engineer and began making a movie from a screenplay he'd written himself. Not yet 30, he had never finished a script before, or shot a movie, or acted in one. But an idea had taken hold, and Carruth—who immersed himself in oblique 1970s films like All the President's Men and The Conversation while he was laid up after a car accident—needed to make it into a film.