Ari Aster Explains Politics of 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.
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.
Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020. "'Eddington' has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody,