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James Laxton

James Laxton

“It always feels good to have someone feel like you did a good job, and obviously that makes you feel like you should keep going. But I see your point, on some level: our job is odd, in that you’re not necessarily meant to understand why it works.”

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    Medicine for Melancholy

    MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

    BARRY JENKINS United States, 2008

    More than a calling card for the Oscar®-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’ feature debut heralded the arrival of a deeply impassioned vision. A yearning portrait of modern Blackness in San Francisco, Medicine for Melancholy is a captivatingly authentic tale of hesitant love and urban malaise.

    Camp X-Ray

    CAMP X-RAY

    PETER SATTLER United States, 2014

    Kristen Stewart delivers a remarkable performance opposite Peyman Moaadi in this engrossing debut from writer-director Peter Sattler. Set in at the Guantánamo Bay prison, Camp X-Ray tells an affecting and intimate story that focuses on the human component of a provocative subject.

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