'THR Presents' Q&A with 'Empire of Light' filmmaker Sam Mendes - presented by SearchlightPics
, and the director added nods to some formative films from his era, including, which has its regional gala premiere at the titular Empire movie theater, owned by Donald Ellis .was not one of Mendes’ favorite films growing up, but it felt important when screenwriter writer Colin Welland quoted Paul Revere in his 1982 Oscar speech, “The British are coming.”
“I’m not sure it’s aged that well … but it was a big moment in British film. It felt just perfect for Mr. Ellis. who has big ideas about himself and his cinema, that he would feel that was the equivalent of really arriving. Having apremiere,” Mendes said. “It’s not a movie I would say that was one of my favorites at the time.”“I felt it spoke not only to the movie, but to Hilary’s character.
For Mendes, working as a filmmaker and theater director was a way to cobble together families, and that’s something reflected by the two characters at the center of“Art, movies, music, literature, that is in many ways your escape,” said Mendes. “The cinema in the movie is also an ad-hoc family for both of those people.”
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