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You Were Never Really Here: A Special Issue ebook

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From the script to the final edit, find out how Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here was made from the people who made it. Through longform essays, find out how Ramsay uses every cinematic tool at her disposal to put us inside hitman Joe’s traumatized headspace.
 

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Orla Smith interviews director Lynne Ramsay
Orla Smith interviews sound designer Paul Davies (MEMBERS ONLY)
Orla Smith interviews editor Joe Bini
Elena Lazic interviews cinematographer Tom Townend
Orla Smith interviews producer Jim Wilson on the wild production (MEMBERS ONLY)
Orla Smith on the film's exploration of a traumatised psyche
Elena Lazic on Ramsay's haptic filmmaking


Paul Davies, Sound Design, You Were Never Really Here, Joaquin Phoenix, Lynne Ramsay

Orla Smith / March 27, 2018

Interview: How YWNRH sounds like ‘a head full of broken glass’

Sound designer Paul Davies discusses crafting a subjective mix that sounds like the inside of a PTSD-stricken head. Davies discusses his ongoing collaboration with Director Lynne Davies and how they created a disorienting soundscape in You Were Never Really Here. This is an excerpt from the ebook You Were Never Really Here: A Special Issue. […]

Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here, Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov

Orla Smith / March 26, 2018

Lynne Ramsay: ‘Beautiful images cancel each other out’

In this interview, Lynne Ramsay talks subverting hitman archetypes with gentleness, humour, and beauty. Ramsay discusses collaborating with cinematographer Tom Townsend, Editor Joe Bini, and Sound Designer Paul Davies to craft a dense and complex film in record time. This is an excerpt from our ebook You Were Never Really Here: A Special Issue which can be […]

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