Paul Greengrass has always been interested in depicting the real world on-screen. Starting out in the documentary world in his 20s, he sharpened the signature observational aesthetic that came to define his cinema.

“It took me quite some years to find my voice and a successful way to make a marriage [between] recording and recreating reality,” Greengrass says about his approach to fictional stories with the instincts of a documentarian. “I just realized, instead of trying to shoot films like a drama director would, it would be much better if I reached back to where my roots were.”

That filmmaking philosophy resulted in several modern-day drawn-from-the-headlines classics, including titles like Captain Phillips and United 93, and even informed the breathtaking white-knuckle aesthetics

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