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‘The Zone of Interest’ DP Lukasz Zal on Depicting Evil Without the Emotional Manipulation
The cinematographer explains his objective approach to shooting Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama with actors isolated on set far from the crew like “‘Big Brother’ in a Nazi house.”
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How VFX Pros Transformed Worlds and Faces With Visual Effects
'The Creator,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' and 'Cocaine Bear' are among the movies vying for a place on the Oscars shortlist.
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Creative Fusion on an Extra-Large Scale: Jennifer Lame on Editing ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Postcard From Earth’
The editor cut Christopher Nolan’s three-hour nuclear-bomb opus as well as Darren Aronofsky's movie, the first to debut at Las Vegas’ Sphere.
Pixar’s Pandemic-Era Movies ‘Soul,’ ‘Turning Red’ and ‘Luca’ to Get 2024 Theatrical Releases
Pixar’s Soul, Luca and Turning Red — which bypassed the big screen and went straight to Disney+ because of the pandemic — will play in theaters for the first time, Disney announced Wednesday. Soul, Pete Docter’s Oscar-winning 2020 animated film about a middle-school band teacher who is transported to the “Great Before,” will be released […]
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Making That ’70s Movie: ‘The Holdovers’ DP on Recreating the Era
When cinematographer Eigil Bryld paired with director Alexander Payne on Focus Features’ Nov. 10 release The Holdovers, which is set at a New England boarding school in 1970, one of the first things the Sideways helmer emphasized was that he didn’t want it to “just look like a movie set the ’70s.” The DP clarifies, “He […]
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‘The Killer’ Costume Designer on Dressing Michael Fassbender’s Assassin Like a German Tourist
At the opening of David Fincher’s The Killer, Michael Fassbender’s unnamed assassin describes his look as based on a German tourist he saw in London. It’s a convenient disguise for blending in on the streets of Paris because, as he explains, no one wants to interact with a German tourist. But what does that look […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Composer Ludwig Göransson on Crafting the Music of a Scientist’s Mind
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was the first movie in the director’s career that told the story of the main character in the first person. It’s an intimate portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist credited as the “father of the atomic bomb,” during World War II. And the intimacy is not only reflected in the camerawork, […]
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‘Barbie’ Scoring Duo Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt Say “It Was Never in the Script That Ryan [Gosling] Was Going to Sing”
Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt couldn’t have guessed their first time scoring a film together would be the biggest movie of the year. For the duo, working with A-list artists — such as Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, Adele, Lorde and Bruno Mars — is nothing new. And Ronson had even previously scored a film […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Tops HPA Awards
Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer topped the feature competition at the annual HPA Awards for postproduction, with Jennifer Lame winning the award for outstanding editing and Fotokem’s Kostas Theodosiou and Kristen Zimmerman claiming the prize for color grading. Tuesday at the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre, additional winners in the feature categories included John Wick: Chapter 4 […]
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Oscar Winners Robert Legato, Deborah Scott Among New Academy SciTech Council Members
Industry vets Dominic Glynn, Rob Legato, Nancy Richardson, Deborah Scott, Tom Sito and Sharon Smith Holley have accepted invitations to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Visual effects supervisor and VFX branch member Legato won Oscars for Titanic, Hugo and The Jungle Book. His VFX credits also […]
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Camerimage: ‘The New Boy’ Claims Golden Frog
The New Boy — the story of a young Aboriginal Australian orphan boy that was written, directed and lensed by Warwick Thornton — collected the Golden Frog in the main competition of the 31st EnergaCamerimage international cinematography film festival, which closed Saturday night in Torún, Poland. Cinematographer Ed Lachman received the Silver Frog for Pablo […]
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‘Ferrari’ Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Filming the Drama’s Intense Race Scenes
There was significant pressure on the day in which director Michael Mann and his team filmed the violent car crash from the 1957 Mille Miglia race for his upcoming film Ferrari. “We only had one shot at it,” says cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt, explaining that the special effects team created and rigged a single self-driving car […]
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Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards: Kevin Haney, Ora T. Green to Receive Lifetime Achievement Awards
Kevin Haney, an Oscar- and Emmy-winning make-up artist with credits from Driving Miss Daisy to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; and Ora T. Green, an Emmy-nominated hair stylist whose work includes Star Trek: Nemesis and Blade, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards Feb. 18 during the 11th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. […]
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Film Academy CEO Bill Kramer Sees “Great Possibilities” for Camerimage Partnership
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer “absolutely sees great possibilities” in a collaboration between the Academy and its Academy Museum with Camerimage, which recently broke ground on a new European Film Center in the Polish festival’s host city of Toruń. Kramer participated in a Wednesday panel about building cultural centers such […]
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Camerimage: Willem Dafoe On Working With ‘Poor Things’ Helmer Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Six Hours in the Makeup Chair
With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, Willem Dafoe came to the 31st EnergaCamerimage to support director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, which opened the international cinematography film festival this week in Torun, Poland. During the event, the actor sat down for a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, to discuss the adaptation of the 1992 novel […]
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‘Barbie’ Collects Color Grading Honor at Camerimage
The candy-colored look of Barbie delivered colorist Yvan Lucas of Company 3 the FilmLight Color Award for a theatrical feature. The third annual awards — organized by FilmLight, the maker of the Baselight color grading system, in collaboration with Camerimage — were presented Sunday at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival in Toruń, Poland. From roughly 400 […]
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Cinematographer John Bailey Remembered During Camerimage Opening Ceremony
There was an emotional start to the 31st EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival as news spread that John Bailey — the cinematographer behind films such as Ordinary People, The Big Chill and As Good As It Gets, and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — died Friday at age 81. During […]
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From ‘Barbie’ to Scorsese: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Nailing Different Visual Styles
Veteran cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s versatility could not be more evident than in his most recent work, which called for filming a 1920s Osage Nation in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and shooting the candy-colored Barbie Land of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Born in Mexico City to a bicultural family (his mom is an American […]
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Avid CEO to Retire During the First Half of 2024
Avid CEO Jeff Rosica revealed his plans to take an early retirement from the tech developer during the first half of 2024, during a quarterly company meeting on Thursday, just days after Avid was acquired for $1.4 billion by an affiliate of private equity firm STG. The maker of the Media Composer editing system and […]
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