The production designer Jack Fisk is the artistic force behind the look of a number of beloved movies: numerous Terrence Malick films like “Badlands” and “The Thin Red Line,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood,” Alejandro Iñárritu’s “The Revenant,” and, most recently, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” for which Fisk is nominated for an Oscar.
When the writer Noah Gallagher Shannon decided to profile Fisk for The New York Times Magazine, he didn’t know much about production design.
After reporting the piece, Noah says he learned that often when people appreciate the cinematography of a movie, what they’re actually appreciating is the production design: what the frame looks like, rather than how the frame was captured.
And Jack Fisk, he found, has a singular philosophy and approach to making the world captured in each movie frame come to life.
Persons:
Jack Fisk, Terrence Malick, ” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “, ” Alejandro Iñárritu’s “, Martin Scorsese’s, Fisk, Noah Gallagher Shannon, Noah
Organizations:
The New York Times Magazine