At one point Anton Corbijn threatened to quit feature-film directing. As he said in our interview last year, he didn’t feel comfortable on film sets at first. “I felt like a stranger on the film set,” he said. “It’s just a big team compared to me and a single camera when I take pictures. I had to get used to the surroundings and the process of making something. In my head I can see what I like, but just to get there [was difficult].” Thankfully for us he’s grown more confident and seems to have shelved that plan. His follow-up to “A Most Wanted Man” is in the can and premieres at the Berlin Film Festival.
Titled “Life,” the movie is about a brief, but transformative period in the life of Dennis Stock, a photographer for Life Magazine assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean. The movie stars Robert Pattinson as Stock and Dane DeHaan as Dean. Here’s the official synopsis from Berlin:
In 1955, ambitious Hollywood photographer Dennis Stock and the then still unknown...