Linus Sandgren - Cinematographer

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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EPISODE 36 - LINUS SANDGREN - Cinematographer

Team Deakins sits down for a conversation with cinematographer, Linus Sandgren (NO TIME TO DIE, FIRST MAN, LA LA LAND, JOY). “I love the creation of the image.” We cover a lot of ground in our talk and touch on, among other things, Swedish films and sensibilities, working minimally, how important it is to find the right approach for each movie. He also goes into detail about how he develops the look with the director. He tells us about working with David O Russell and does a deep dive on the making of FIRST MAN which you don’t want to miss! And finally, of course, we talk a bit about shooting a Bond movie. A fascinating conversation with a talented image-maker!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakins podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and James Deacons, often joined
0:16.9	in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear
0:25.2	that in mind when you hear the audio. If you'd like to submit a question or
0:30.2	topic please do so by emailing pod, POD at Roger Deacons.com.
0:37.0	We're joined today by an Academy Award-winning cinematographer. Among his credits are American
0:46.4	Hustle, Joy, Lala Land, and First Man. He also has a film soon to be released, The James Bond movie No Time to Die.
0:55.0	We're happy to welcome Lienis Sandgren.
0:58.0	Lienis, thank you for being with us.
1:01.0	Thank you for having me.
1:03.0	We'd like to start and ask how you got to where you are now.
1:07.0	Did you know as a kid that you wanted to make images or was it something you found later or what?
1:14.6	Yeah I think looking back I think I did.
1:19.7	When I was playing as a young teenager I was making movies like I noticed that a lot of cinematographers and filmmakers in general have been doing as kids, you know, I was making super eight films with my friend and we drew a lot, we were drawing a lot of cartoons and made comic books and stuff.
1:40.0	That was sort of the way we played and I remember I actually did small stop motion films and we did films with with a forced perspective where my friend climbed up the Coca-Cola bottle you know and stuff.
1:55.2	Fun! And yeah and that kind of stuff followed me you know like over the years I was always
2:01.1	interested in that type of you know filmmaking like things you can do in
2:07.8	camera I sort of love that illusion I guess as a kid, I was into drawing a lot.
2:14.0	My mother was graphic designer, she used to be an arts teacher and my dad was a film distributor.
2:22.0	Oh, well.
2:23.2	So, you know, I actually grew up with my father sort of influencing.
2:28.7	I know, for fact, now that my father influenced me
2:32.1	without really wanting to influence me, I think, but I got influenced by his work because he was importing to Sweden and to Scandinavia art house films really or like quality movies from all over the world like international
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