Forster Mark (Marc Forster), director: filmography

Marc Forster is a well-known Swiss-German film director, gifted visionary and screenwriter, best known for his work "The Ball of Monsters", "Quantum of Solace" and "The War of the Worlds Z".

short biography

Forster Mark was born in late January 1969 in the German city of Illertissen. Most of his adolescence and youth, the future director spent in Switzerland at the ski resort of Davos, where after finishing his private school he continued his studies at the University. M. Zugerberg. The young man from an early age was interested in the film industry, Mark kept in mind a lot of original ideas, planning to embody them later on the screen. At the age of twenty, Foster decided to move to the United States, where, after graduating from New York University, finally has the opportunity to realize his dream. His first artistic film project, Foster Mark creates after a series of documentary films. They are the film Loungers, which despite a meager budget of 10 thousand dollars receives approval of the film industry and several prizes.

Formation of creative writing

The second work of the director was the film "All Together," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Forster Mark, whose films are now known to every self-respecting cinephile, in the 90 years was a serious internship series "Twin Peaks." The young visionary boldly took over from David Lynch the director's baton and completed the television movie. If in the credits of the last episodes the director Mark Forster did not appear, then no one would pay attention to the replacement of the director. These lessons clearly did not pass for Mark in the gift, he managed to gracefully stylize under his predecessor, having received in narrow circles the nickname "shadow Lynch". Therefore, "All together" he built exclusively on suspense - total expectation of something bad. And in the tape, suspense does not disappear even when it seems that all the dots are placed above the "i", the viewer knows the answer to the main exciting question. Foster turns family tragedy into a detective thriller, while not at all speculating on unhappiness.

Director's finds

A mobile digital camera that nervously fixes everything that happens, unpredictable editing junctions, raids, blackouts, changes in sound design - like a simple arsenal of artistic cinematographic tools, skillfully used by the visionary, which allowed creating an aura of increasing tension in the movie "All Together", later it will become a distinctive feature of the author's Forster's manner. Unfortunately, this tape suffered an unenviable fate - nobody especially noticed or appreciated it, neither the audience, nor the film festivals. And quite undeservedly. As for popularity, the picture loses the next project of the director named "Monster Ball", but all one is worthy of attention and can be recommended for viewing.

An exemplary psychological drama

The third picture of the director of the "Ball of Monsters", according to world critics, is a good psychological drama, played smoothly and professionally delivered. In the picture everything looks quite vital and natural, without depressing stretch and silly incongruities. The film, first of all, is good from the production side, it is shot very competently and flawlessly. The actors noticeably that they do not play as they please, but clearly obey the task set by the director. Therefore, performers play harmoniously, monolithically, without a single false note. This drama, when rating IMDb: 7.10, is considered a film community of one of the best works of the director. Forster Mark himself noted the performer starring Holly Bury, who was subsequently awarded the Oscar.

Slant to a fantasy movie

In 2004, Forster Mark shoots the film "The Magic Country". Producer of the painting Richard N. Gladstein in an interview with the media said that at the preparatory stage, the project was replaced by more than 50 directors. However, after he managed to conclude an agreement with Johnny Depp, already managed to conquer the entire planet in the form of a pirate pirate of the Caribbean Sea, the ups and downs of production ended, shooting the film went like clockwork. Despite this fact, the personality of the director should still be regarded as the key to the success of the picture. Foster, who already achieved recognition of the above-described acute social drama, unexpectedly showed interest in a fantasy movie. After the premiere the picture became extremely popular, it was highly appreciated by film critics of all stripes and an ordinary spectator, as evidenced by its IMDb rating: 7.80. The filmmaker was awarded with a mass of film awards, including 7 Oscar awards, 5 Golden Globes, 11 BAFTA.

Parables

The creative way of the director sometimes causes serious perplexity among an outsider unsophisticated observer. Having become famous for the unhurried and gloomy "Ball of Monsters", in "The Magic Country", making the creator of Peter Pan from the destiny touching, pathetic to the perfect idyll story, in "Stay," Marc Forster created a rather distinct mystical drama, despite the fact that the film was positioned As a psychological thriller. Unfortunately, the picture failed at the box office, with a budget of $ 50,000,000 having collected an amount of about $ 7 million and an IMDb rating of 6.90. Ignoring the modest assessment of his efforts, the director creates the movie "Character" (IMDb: 7.60) a real lyrical comedy a year later. It would seem that there is little in common between the pictures of his filmography, but, if you look closely, it becomes clear - the director is mastering the same genre - the parable. But unlike Shyamalan, Mark arrives at times wiser and thinner, he cleverly and ingeniously parries his parables for the more familiar and popular cinematographers.

007 prisoners do not take

In 2008, the director takes the director's chair of the direct sequel to the Casino Royale of the next episode of the Bond movie called Quantum of Solace. Unfortunately, the intelligent director who filmed the clever, though somewhat overdried drama, balance between style and pathos did not deter. On the one hand, he rested in realism, on the other - he abused the style. In the movie there is not a single phrase that could become a winged one, or a dialogue, in the perspective of what was disassembled into quotes. The whole narrative is an inexorable carousel of clashes and places. But the praise was awarded to the work of the artist, the game is rather simple-minded Kurylenko and impeccable Craig.

In 2011, the director again tried his hand at the genre of the action movie, he made a biographical action about the biker-preacher Sam Childers, the will of the fate of the defender of orphans in Sudan.

Fair skepticism

Concerning the "World War Z" (in the version of the domestic distributors "The War of the Worlds Z"), directed by Foster, many filmmakers had a lot of skepticism. A multi-million-dollar movie, a zombie-themed subject with an age rating of "12+" alarmed many. Separate was the inordinate detailed consideration of family values, which were supposed to be present in each scene, others assumed that the most interesting things were collected in the trailer. Wrong and one and the other. The new project of Mark Foster was a strong and selective film. It, of course, can not be positioned as the greatest zombie film, but the tape is able to amaze even the most skeptical fans of the genre. And most importantly, that watching Foster's next masterpiece is very interesting.