A sense of loss pervades the film wistful dusks deepen into dark, as Fern walks across the Plains with her lantern.
What other story is there, anyway? Zhao, he said, had edited “Nomadland” during the pandemic.
“California nomads! It’s capturing something that’s kind of gone, hanging by a thread.” “It’s Herzogian.” He said that he was starting a new project, focussed on the old surfers in the shore community known as carps. Richards held up his index fingers like goalposts, an imaginary viewfinder. It was low tide, and a fisherman stood in the shallows, surf-casting, dark against the light-crazed sea.
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With digital, we could make our own movies for a hundred thousand dollars at the level they could be shown as cinema.” Zhao’s next film is “Eternals,” a two-hundred-million-dollar Marvel movie with Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie, and Richards, operating the camera. Chloé could get no backing, because she’s a Chinese woman. “Tarantino says digital is the death of cinema,” he said. Richards shot it, and submitted it as his thesis. Of course they have a thunder god!” On the reservation, Zhao made “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” using locals to tell a loosely fictional story about a Native boy and his sister. You think about the religion of those people. “There’d be multiple lightning storms going at once. “It was the American West of my dreams,” he said. “Those who go home to work on their script, and those who go to the Apple Bar.” He went out West with her, to the Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. “There are two kinds of students,” he said. He found his way to N.Y.U.’s film school, and then to the campus bar, where he met Zhao. Once you close it, there’s no one knocking on the door. “As soon as the door shuts, the curtains close, you’re in a cocoon. We were trying to write a movie and live in a van,” Richards said. “Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Nevada. parks and campgrounds they became connoisseurs of Famous Dave’s. Richards and Zhao got Akira in 2018, and that summer drove all around the West, scouting locations, meeting van dwellers and train hoppers, and trying to be unobtrusive in R.V. “He thought I was trying to make it nicer!” “A neighbor came up to me and gave me his friend’s card-a guy who decks out vans,” he said. He outfitted Vanguard in the front yard of his and Zhao’s house, in Ojai. He was director of photography on the film, and head of production design. Richards, who is thirty-six, with a scruffy beard, was wearing a navy barn jacket and grimy jeans. Radical self-sufficiency is her true north. “I’m not homeless, I’m just houseless,” Fern says. Her conveyance is Vanguard, a careworn white van, its headlights searching out a new future, everything bungee-corded down. The gypsum plant where she works closes, and the town becomes a modern-day Pompeii, abandoned mid-thought, coffee cups still on counters. He meant Linda May and Swankie, two of the real-life van dwellers who play versions of themselves in Zhao’s new film, “Nomadland.” It stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who hits the road after losing her husband, her job, and her town. “If any of the nomads saw that, they’d be ashamed of me.” Inside was an unmade double bed, and no kitchen. “I would show you inside, but it’s just been gutted,” Joshua James Richards, a cinematographer who co-owns Akira with his partner, the writer-director Chloé Zhao, said, before reluctantly opening the sliding door. Joshua James Richards Illustration by João Fazenda
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