“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.
The movie is another monumental endeavor from Zemeckis, seeking to tell an epic and intimate story (with the help of de-aging technology) about a family’s home through the years.
