Bennett Miller is a Hollywood producer and director. He has eighteen prestigious film awards. He was twice nominated for an Oscar, and in 2015 received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Films of the American director - the topic of the article.
Youth
Bennett Miller, whose biography began in 1966, spent his early years in New York. Once in a school library, he met a future writer, a young man named Denis Fatterman. This meeting predetermined the fate of the future director. Already in the early years, these creative personalities became interested in theatrical art. They did not miss a single premiere. And once Bennett Miller during a performance in the leading theater of the city was so delighted with the effect that the actors played on the audience (including him) that he made the final decision: he would become a director. However, later the hero of this article connected his life not with the theater, but with cinema.
When Miller was sixteen, he went to the summer theater camp. Here he made acquaintance with young talents. The names of many of them are widely known to viewers today. One of Bennett’s new friends was actor Philip Hoffman, who played almost a quarter century later in the movie Capote.
Student years
After college, Bennett Miller continued his studies at the University of New York. Initially, he was exclusively attracted to theatrical art. But the older he got, the more interest in him woke up in cinema. But, despite great plans for the future, Bennett Miller studied the university program without much zeal. And therefore, was soon expelled. The young man combined his dreams of a film career with an enthusiastic game of chess, which somewhat delayed the day when Miller's name became famous in Hollywood, and then around the world.
"Cruise"
For several years, Bennett interrupted casual work. From time to time he took an insignificant part in the creation of films of famous directors. A couple of times he happened to work as an assistant director. Bennett Miller created his first painting in 1998. This documentary film tells about a man who works as a guide.
Timothy Levitch - and this is exactly what the name of the hero of the movie Miller is - is madly in love with his city. Every day, driving a tour bus past the famous sights of New York, it is not limited to boring statistics and important historical dates. Telling tourists about his city, Timothy makes philosophical retreats from time to time. He flavors his stories with legends and traditions related to the history of New York.
Levitcha Miller hardly knew since childhood. Once it occurred to him that this unusual person should become the hero of his picture. Since then, he has followed the guide with the camera. Timothy Levitch was not opposed. Moreover, after Miller’s film debut, he became famous far beyond the borders of his native New York.
