Andrew Dominik

Director

“I’d like to make more movies, man, but I don’t want to just make movies. I want to make the movies I want to make.”

Biography

Andrew Dominik (born 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed two films so far: Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. —Wikipedia

Films on MUBI

Killing Them Softly

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Chopper

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Kerem Soyyılmaz

4Feb13

I like this guy.

Mike Thorn

13Dec12

Dominik is currently one of the most precise, uncompromising genre auteurs in cinema. He filters the visual poetics of Malick through his dissections of masculinist genres. His films are punctuated by episodes of violence that, like real violence, are both sickening and awkward. He comes from a rare breed of filmmakers, internalizing his influences work without falling into the trap of impersonation. Typical of unconvential genre filmmakers, Dominik is also very underrated (especially his masterpiece, Killing Them Softly) but I think his work will be seriously revisited in the future.

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Robert Keegan Walker

29Jan13

Currently, in agreement
TakaAwesome

18Feb13

I love Dominik but I'd consider Jesse James his masterpiece thus far. I was disappointed with Killing Them Softly, care to share why you believe it to be his masterpiece?
Mike Thorn

21Mar13

Taka, I thought Killing Them Softly felt almost like a hybrid of Dominik's previous films (in terms of both aesthetics and content). While Chopper and Assassination had subversive moments within their genres' conventions, Softly was a relentless and precise assault on the trappings of crime films. I think the critique of capitalism/American politics is viciously executed. I also love Dominik's effort to revert the current photographic tropes: rather than digital mimicking celluloid, Dominik and his photographer aimed to make celluloid look as "un-filmic" as possible. If you'd like to discuss the film further, please feel free to leave a comment or message on my profile.

SALAWAY GENNARO

27Sep12

"I'd like to make more movies, man, but I don't want to just make movies. I want to make the movies I want to make." –Dominik. Harvey Weinstein calls him the most stubborn director.

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