Podcast: Manure Director Michael Polish
Michael and Mark Polish make their third trip to Sundance with Manure, a new surreal comedy that takes place in a “heightened reality” simliar to Northfork, their 2003 Sundance entry. This one stars Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni, Kyle McLachlan, and Ed Helms and concerns manure salesmen in the 1960s.
The entire film was shot indoors on a soundstage and relied heavily on a stylized production design to create a sort of throwback to the way Hollywood used to make movies. But instead of making Manure sepia-toned in postproduction, the twin brothers did most of their work before filming.
“The backdrops were painted with brown clouds and the sets are all done in brown, the cars are brown and the costumes are also brown,” Michael Polish says. Anything that didn’t come out one of many shades of brown was then corrected digitally.
Despite all this old-school technique during filming, the actual shoot occured on the Red Digital Cinema Red One camera, as Polish describes to Melin.
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