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JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION SELECTION! Lew’s cinematography and Smith’s direction often place Marks on the fringe of the composition, a character always out-of-reach and placed in the background, as Jamie was when he was alive…

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