American Cinematographer - August 2008 - (Page 26) Dark a Matters Mulder and Scully return to the FBI in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, shot by Bill Roe, ASC, and directed by Chris Carter. by Rachael K. Bosley Unit photography by Diyah Pera P icking up with Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) six years after we last saw them, The X-Files: I Want to Believe reveals that the pair have abandoned their perilous pursuits at the FBI to live as ordinary citizens; Scully has resumed her career in medicine, and Mulder’s interest in unexplained phenomena has become more a hobby than a vocation. Some of the traumatic events in their shared past are not entirely behind them, however, and when the FBI comes calling about a series of apparent kidnappings — mysteriously linked to a defrocked priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to have visions of the victims — the grim case shatters the peace they have tried to forge. Fans of The X-Files, which ended its nine-season run on television in 2002, will recognize in I Want to Believe elements of a “standalone” episode, which usually presented an X-File that had nothing to do with the alien-related conspiracy that came to define the series’ narrative core. Such cases sent Mulder and Scully in pursuit of serial killers, mad scientists, evolutionary oddities and other earthbound evildoers. “This movie is a classic X-File in that sense — dark and gruesome,” says director of photography Bill Roe, ASC. “But there are a lot of angles to the story, and a big one is 26 August 2008
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