February 25, 2016
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Know Your Oscar Nominees: Cinematographers

...Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects) can prove a little more difficult. So difficult in fact, that for some, the arrival of each February has come to mean a new...

February 23, 2016
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Know Your Oscar Nominees: Film Editors

Looks like it’s part III of our technical guide to the Oscars, with ground to cover even after our breakdowns of the sound mixing and editing category and costume designers. This time around,...

February 9, 2016
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Kung Fu Panda 3 Editor Clare Knight Builds a Trilogy and a Family

...particularly in animation, you have to build the movie, so you have this encyclopedic knowledge of every sound effect. When we were looking for the sound for baby Po I found that...

February 25, 2016
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The Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2016

...films (in no particular order) that you need to know about in 2016. It looks like this year is going to be a scream. 10 Cloverfield Lane – March 11 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHzng8fxLs...

March 2, 2016
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Showrunner Kahane Cooperman on Amazon's The New Yorker Presents

...a little bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDP99eGo2w How did you come to be showrunner? I had worked at The Daily Show for more than 18 years. It was a fantastic 12-week gig that turned into...

March 4, 2016
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Zootopia Animator Darrin Butters on Drawing From Disney's Rich Heritage

...Disney’s rich heritage, the benefits of CGI animation and his side gig as a warm-up guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWM0ct-OLsM Zootopia is such a richly drawn world: did you enjoy having a blank canvas to...

June 2, 2016
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Talking to Seth Meyers About Late Night's Growing Power

...so hard anymore).   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn0eIAyYByI You are well into your third season now, in what ways do you think your show has developed and you've developed as a host? The main thing is...

July 5, 2016
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Mr. Robot Production Designer on Show's Sinister Looks

...talked to production designer Matt Munn about making coding come to life, trying to show the real New York and working on Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL1zlyRdAZM What were the initial discussions and inspirations you...

August 4, 2016
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Chatting With Kent Jones About his HBO Documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut

...their friend, a filmmaker they both admired, and they wound up with a movie that stood up for cinema. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8kEYUxOeg What was the source of the archival interview footage of Hitchcock and...

August 22, 2016
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Cinematographer Crescenzo Notarile on his Emmy Nominated work on Gotham

...shows the seedy underbelly of comic fans’ favorite corrupt city, when Bruce Wayne was just a child and Commissioner Gordon was just a detective. Notarile’s work on the series is gritty, imaginative and...