Though 16 years had passed since Todd Field’s last film, “Little Children,” the emergence of “TÁR” on the fall festival circuit was an immediate reminder of the auteur’s filmmaking talent.
The film, which stars Cate Blanchett as a prominent orchestral conductor who finds her career collapsing before her eyes after a scandal, has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and is widely viewed as a strong Academy Award contender.
The film has the potential to bring Field his first Oscar and Blanchett, for whom he specifically wrote the role, her third.Now that he is on the frontlines of Oscar season, Field is able to look back at the humble beginnings that launched his directing career.
In a recent appearance on The Hollywood Reporter Director Roundtable, Field said that his love of cinema began with many, many viewings of Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”“It started for me in high school,
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