The two were honored as directors of the year for 'Tár' and 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' respectively.
Both directors were also familiar presences on the Arlington stage over the festival’s 10 days, appearing on the first weekend’s writers’ panel and as presenters for earlier tribute subjects. Field toasted his muse, Cate Blanchett, as the powerful and power-mad conductor anti-hero Lydia Tár, during her tribute night on Feb. 10; McDonagh presented to his two stars, Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, subjects of the Cinema Vanguard Award tribute on Thursday night.
“She’s not just focused on Tár. She wants to understand all of it; that was tremendous,” he continued. “Cate literally showed up on the first day of rehearsal and she had memorized the entire script as if it was. I’m not just talking about the dialogue, but also the stage directions … and learned German and how to play Bach on the piano and how to conduct and how to have an American dialect.”
He asserted that “division of labor is a dodgy proposition. At the end of the day, a director and an actor are people, and they’re talking. They’re trying to be prepared enough but also nimble enough and be at the pitch of perception to be able to make very tiny adjustments with each other. That’s ongoing and it starts early on. She’s a very good dance partner. Let’s put it that way.”
Conversely, his films can have the intense inter-character dynamics of theater, as is the case with the darkly comic— custom-built for actors Gleeson and Farrell, who first teamed up and showed their camaraderie with McDonagh’s 2015 film. “I love actors and trying to solve problems between us,” McDonagh said, adding, “I couldn’t coax a performance that wasn’t there. I just like to get out of the way.
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