Christine

Christine (2016)

Timing: 2:3 (123 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2016-10-14

Country

United States

Production

BorderLine Films, Great Point Media, Fresh Jade

Genre

Drama

Budget

$313 465

Revenue

$313 465

Website

http://www.curzonartificialeye.com/christine

Director

Antonio Campos

Actors

Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia, J. Smith-Cameron, Timothy Simons, Kim Shaw, John Cullum, Morgan Spector, Jayson Warner Smith
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Craig Shilowich

Producer

Melody C. Roscher, Craig Shilowich, Jim Reeve, Robert Halmi Jr., Sean Durkin, Josh Mond

Operator

Joe Anderson

Composer

Saunder Jurriaans

Artist

Audition

Douglas Aibel, Stephanie Holbrook

Editing

Sofía Subercaseaux
All team (54)

• Rebecca Hall, who plays the lead role, is married to Morgan Spector, who plays the doctor.
• The trailer for the film was released by In Sync Advertising, whose head, Robert “Smitty” Smith, once worked on the same channel as Christine Chubbuck and was even friends with her. Smith contacted the filmmakers himself. They had repeatedly tried to locate him and involve him as a consultant even before filming began, but none of their attempts were successful. Smith turned out to have a very common name.
• One episode of the film shows two working VCRs using interlaced scan at the same time.
• The film’s “warm,” muted colors are characteristic of films from the 1970s. The plot unfolds at the beginning of this decade, so the filmmakers specifically sought to achieve this effect for greater realism. Previously, this effect was achieved through lighting and the use of special film (Ektachrome, 16mm film produced by Kodak). In the age of digital technology, it is achieved by applying special computer filters and graphic overlays.
• Like Christine Chubbuck, screenwriter Craig Shilowich experienced bouts of profound depression in his youth.
• In the film, Christine Chubbuck is portrayed as a rather withdrawn person, although in reality she was known at work as very sociable and friendly. Christine loved children and even participated in puppet shows for children with intellectual disabilities in her free time. Only close relatives knew about the depth of her depressive episodes.
• At the national American Sundance Film Festival in 2016, two films about Christine Chubbuck, a television presenter who committed suicide on live television on July 15, 1974, had their premiere screenings – the biographical film “Christine” by Antonio Campos and the fiction-documentary film “Kate Plays Christine” by Robert Greene.
• The film's "warm," muted colors are characteristic of films from the 1970s. The plot unfolds at the beginning of that decade, so the filmmakers deliberately sought to achieve this effect for greater authenticity. Previously, this effect was achieved through lighting and the use of special film (Ektachrome, 16mm film produced by Kodak). In the age of digital technology, it is achieved through the application of special computer filters and graphic overlays.
• At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, a national American festival of independent cinema, two films about Christine Chubbuck, a television presenter who committed suicide on live television on July 15, 1974, had their premiere screenings – Antonio Campos' biographical film "Christine" and Robert Greene's fictionalized documentary "Kate Plays Christine."