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'Midnight Special' Director Jeff Nichols in studio q

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Channel: Q with Tom Power · 2016 · Entertainment

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Jeff Nichols' "Midnight Special" is a refreshing throwback to 80s classics like "E.T." and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" — science fiction films that are as emotionally complex as they are visually stunning. He joins Shad to discuss the dangers of directing for spectacle, and how fatherhood changed his wider perspective.

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