The Lighthouse

Robert Eggers' second feature pits Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe against weather, mythology, and each other inside a hermetically sealed two-hander. The texture — granular black-and-white, antique lenses, foghorn drones — turns every scene into a Melville hallucination.

• Shot on black-and-white 35mm with vintage Petzval lenses.
• Aspect ratio is the rarely-used 1.19:1, mimicking early sound-era cinema.
• Pattinson and Dafoe drank real alcohol in some scenes per Eggers' request.
• Most dialogue was lifted from Herman Melville and 19th-century New England logs.
• Pattinson called it the worst experience of his life — meant as a compliment.

• "Why'd ya spill yer beans?"
• "Should pale death, with treble dread, make the ocean caves our bed!"
• "Damn ye!"
• "You like me lobster?"
• "Yer fond of me lobster, ain't ye?"