Will Tizard Contributor“The Banker,” a sumptuous Apple TV Plus production competing in the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s main competition this week, is the true story of Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, two Black investors who broke down racial barriers during the 1960s by keeping their race secret.
DP Charlotte Bruus Christensen (“Far From the Madding Crowd,” “A Quiet Place”) worked with director George Nolfi to conjure a magisterial look to the trappings of a real estate empire for the film, which moves from small-town Texas to booming Los Angeles – and finally to the halls of Congress, where the protagonists face a reckoning for rocking the boat.One of the things that pushed this toward 35mm film was that the script and the period and.
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