[Editor’s note: The following post contains minor spoilers for “The Lighthouse.”]
Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is one of the year’s most acclaimed genre offerings, and the behind-the-scenes stories from the film’s grueling production are quickly becoming as insane as the film itself (see Robert Pattinson eating mud and vomiting). For Eggers, filming his follow-up to “The Witch” began with Pattinson simulating masturbation on camera and only got crazier from there. The director tells The Daily Beast that Pattinson self-pleasuring was the first scene that was on the “The Lighthouse” shooting schedule, which anyone who has seen the film knows is appropriately twisted.
“On day one we shot Rob masturbating in the shed — it’s the very first thing we shot — and Rob really, really went for it,” Eggers said. “And you know, it was inspiring.”
Pattinson relived the first-day experience himself in a new interview with The New York Times. “Well, my first shot was this ferocious masturbation scene.
Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is one of the year’s most acclaimed genre offerings, and the behind-the-scenes stories from the film’s grueling production are quickly becoming as insane as the film itself (see Robert Pattinson eating mud and vomiting). For Eggers, filming his follow-up to “The Witch” began with Pattinson simulating masturbation on camera and only got crazier from there. The director tells The Daily Beast that Pattinson self-pleasuring was the first scene that was on the “The Lighthouse” shooting schedule, which anyone who has seen the film knows is appropriately twisted.
“On day one we shot Rob masturbating in the shed — it’s the very first thing we shot — and Rob really, really went for it,” Eggers said. “And you know, it was inspiring.”
Pattinson relived the first-day experience himself in a new interview with The New York Times. “Well, my first shot was this ferocious masturbation scene.
- 10/17/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Lighthouse seeps into your bones with the chill of the sea wind. Stunningly directed by Robert Eggers from a script he wrote with his brother, Max, and shot in black and white in the boxy aspect ratio common in the silent era, The Lighthouse is set in the 1890s on a deserted island off the coast of Maine. It’s there, with the lighthouse looming above them, that extraordinary actors Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson duel with each other — as well as a raging storm, demon rum, masturbatory fantasies and mystical portents (a seagull,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Anyone who saw Robert Eggers’ prior outing The Witch knows that he’s a pretty weird dude. His film are odd, to say the least. Well, opening this week, his newest outing, The Lighthouse, manages to make The Witch appear mainstream by comparison. Ponder that for a moment. Though featuring a pair of bigger names in his cast this time, Eggers is doubling down on bizarre imagery and unusual filmmaking. A24 is going to have an interesting time convincing audiences to see this one. Luckily, one thing they have on their side is that, if you gird your loins and subject yourself to its weirdness, a certain type of cinematic nirvana takes over. It’s hard to explain, but while this isn’t a great work, it’s a good and, more importantly, an interesting one. Sometimes, that’s all that matters. The movie is described on IMDb as “The...
- 10/14/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Lighthouse Trailer Robert Eggers‘ The Lighthouse (2019) movie trailer has been released A24 and stars Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, and Valeriia Karaman. Plot Synopsis The Lighthouse‘s plot synopsis: “The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.” Thoughts Atmosphere is the first thing that the viewer thinks of when the viewer [...]
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- 7/31/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
David Crow Sep 9, 2019
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, The Lighthouse reveals its final creepy trailer with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
I tend to resist the term “elevated horror”—as it suggests horror is by default unsophisticated—but there is no denying we are living in a renaissance of smart, atmospheric, and bewitching horror cinema. And few have risen to immediate attention in this era as quickly as Robert Eggers, director of The Witch, one of the wickedest chillers ever made. Thus production on his next movie was always a curiosity, but everything we’ve heard, and now seen, about The Lighthouse promises something just as startlingly original.
Shot in black and white 35mm, and in the same aspect ratio of 1.19 : 1 that Fritz Lang filmed M (1931) in, there is something nefariously old-fashioned afoot. Here's what you need to know.
The Lighthouse Trailer
In the below trailer, we get...
Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch, The Lighthouse reveals its final creepy trailer with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
I tend to resist the term “elevated horror”—as it suggests horror is by default unsophisticated—but there is no denying we are living in a renaissance of smart, atmospheric, and bewitching horror cinema. And few have risen to immediate attention in this era as quickly as Robert Eggers, director of The Witch, one of the wickedest chillers ever made. Thus production on his next movie was always a curiosity, but everything we’ve heard, and now seen, about The Lighthouse promises something just as startlingly original.
Shot in black and white 35mm, and in the same aspect ratio of 1.19 : 1 that Fritz Lang filmed M (1931) in, there is something nefariously old-fashioned afoot. Here's what you need to know.
The Lighthouse Trailer
In the below trailer, we get...
- 7/30/2019
- Den of Geek
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