Jack Fisk

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q3805579: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Raggedy Man. Count them as craft (8 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Craft (9) everyone in craft

Directing (2) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Jack Fisk → Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk's latest Oscar nomination was for building a town for Flower Moon, but he lost to Poor Things.
    “Which is he built a fucking town.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:34:07 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jack Fisk → The Thin Red Line. After years away, Terrence Malick brought Fisk back for The Thin Red Line.
    “And then it's like, he's gone until Malik resuscitates him for a thin red line.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:36:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Jack Fisk → Killers of the Flower Moon. Fisk researched the period billiard scorekeeping mechanism so the built set would be right, per a New York Times Magazine piece.
    “Jack did the research and found out this is how they would have kept score.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:31 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (collaborator): Jack Fisk → Terrence Malick. Fisk production designed all of Malick's movies and was first-timer with Scorsese here.
    “Jack Fisk, who doesn't really work that much anymore, who's production designed, all of Terrence Malik's movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jack Fisk → Sissy Spacek. Fisk is introduced as the Malick production designer who is married to Spacek.
    “who's married to Sissy Spacek, who's one of the great, like, artists of the last 50 years of movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:03:34 · Sean Fennessey or Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): David Lynch → Jack Fisk. Fisk, the production designer who plays the Man in the Planet, is the other big friend Lynch made in high school.
    “Uh, the other big uh, friend that he makes in high school. Jack Fisk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:40 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Jack Fisk → Terrence Malick. Fisk, who plays in Eraserhead, worked with Malick, who was friends with a man Lynch showed footage to.
    “Obviously, Jack Fisk has worked with Terrence Malik.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:51:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jack Fisk: Per an NYT Magazine piece, Grann saw Fisk had researched how billiard halls kept score; Sean wants him to build a billiard-room barbershop for the Ringer.
    “every studio executive listening, you need to stop spending your $250 million on garbage VFX and you need to spend it on Jack Fisk, just building shit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jack Fisk: Fisk, Lynch's high school friend and production designer, plays the Man in the Planet in Eraserhead.
    “plays as we all know, plays the man in the planet in Eraserhead.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 0:33:48 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)