Interviews

Interview: David Lowery (A Ghost Story)

Published on August 16, 2017

Just prior to immersing himself into editing dock mode with the feature he shot earlier this summer (Old Man and the Gun – with Elisabeth Moss, Casey Affleck, Robert Redford), David Lowery was on the last legs of his film fest and press tour for the A24 release of A Ghost Story. Arguably the hottest ticket at Sundance back in January, and at Karel Och’s Karlovy Vary and Mitch Davis’ Fantasia Intl. Film Festival, I got the chance to sit down with the filmmaker for a generously lengthy one on one.

A film that has something new to offer upon a second viewing, the acclaim will certainly resurface during awards season. This interview took place exactly one week after A Ghost Story was released in a handful of theatres in NYC. We talked about branding and the A24 folks methodology, working with Casey Affleck, how to keep your film production a secret, how to work direct a physical performance, bed sheets, passing on culture, the soundtrack of our lives, working with Shane Carruth and finally, what he thought of Assayas’ Personal Shopper.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).