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Leave No Trace: A Special Issue eBook
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This eBook is a crucial roadmap to the inner-workings of Leave No Trace, featuring interviews with the filmmaking team and essays on the film's themes and amazing performances. Bursting with exclusive content and incisive analyses, this is an eBook to read and cherish. Make it yours now.
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Contents
Elena Lazic interviews director Debra Granik
Elena Lazic interviews cinematographer Michael McDonough
Gillie Collins on externalizing the process of an adolescent separating from a parent
Brett Pardy on white poverty and empathy in Granik's films
Alex Heeney on Ben Foster, including an interview with the actor
Alex Heeney interviews editor Jane Rizzo (MEMBERS ONLY)
Orla Smith on Thomasin McKenzie's performance
Alex Heeney on Ben Foster's career and his subtle depictions of trauma
Familiar Faces: Ben Foster’s subtle depictions of trauma
Ben Foster has made a career out of portraying complicated men with some relationship to trauma, in as quiet and subtle way as possible. We delve deep into the …
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Thomasin McKenzie tracks every step toward independence in Leave No Trace
Increment by increment, Thomasin McKenzie tracks Tom's journey from girl to young woman. This is the seventh piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik's Leave …
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Editor Jane Rizzo: ‘There’s very little story, so it is about building the moments’
Editor Jane Rizzo discusses cutting Leave No Trace, developing the father-daughter relationship, building the soundscapes for different locations, and …
Ben Foster on silence and trauma in Leave No Trace
Ben Foster discusses how he prepared for his role as Will in Leave No Trace. This is the fifth piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, …
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Debra Granik frames poverty as a systemic failure to empathize
Debra Granik's films — Down to the Bone, Stray Dog, and Leave No Trace — focus on individuals who struggle to navigate an unfriendly social support system in an …
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