Over at Wizard, my pal Kiel Phegley has conducted a massive, informative, surprisingly candid interview with Jack Bender, executive producer and lead director of Lost.
With so much emphasis on the plotlines and characters and mysteries and other writerly aspects of the show, the fact that it’s the best-looking network television program since Twin Peaks almost always gets overlooked, and pretty much no one on the show has more of a role in that visual look than Bender. Sample quote:
So what we did is that we saved all the camera moves and all the moving shots and handheld and longer lenses and all of that stuff for the island story, and we made the flashbacks closer angles, wider lenses so that all of the background would be in focus.
I never even noticed that, for crying out loud.