World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington
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Exclusive: Aster co-programmed the series, titled "Eddington City Limits," which highlights the features that inspired his COVID-set Western.
The 'Yellowstone' star discusses his love for the filmmaker and working with Joaquin Phoenix in A24's darkly satirical neo-Western.
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/Film on MSNEddington Director Ari Aster Gave Joaquin Phoenix An Indirect Note That Changed His CharacterJoaquin Phoenix couldn't figure out his Eddington character, Joe Cross, until director Ari Aster did something that inadvertently unlocked the role for him.
You might need to lie down for a bit after “Eddington.” Preferably in a dark room with no screens and no talking. “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s latest nightmare vision, is sure to divide (along which lines,
The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting and incoherently raving as he climbs a craggy hill silhouetted against a twilight sky. He gazes, or maybe glares, out at the town below.
He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of "Eddington," wants them all to feel like family.