“I think for Bob, it has always been, what really gets him going is figuring out a way to do something in traditional storytelling. Perhaps it can turn into making Fords and Chevys. You can be on the factory line, and you can make a hit movie. But to get him going, to get him excited about a project, I think he has to see something in it that pushes him and what he does to another level.”
Contact is a tremendous movie. 27 years after its release, Robert Zemeckis’ film remains awe-inspiring. The Carl Sagan adaptation is emotionally, intellectually, and viscerally engaging science-fiction. It’s the full-package. For cinematographer Don Burgess, it is the most challenging film he’s shot. Which is saying a lot considering he just made Here with Zemeckis, in which the two explore the passage of time from one angle.
