October 19, 2017
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How Wonderstruck DP Edward Lachman Channeled The French Connection for Kids Adventure

...separated by fifty years, who run away to Manhattan in search of a missing parent and wind up forging an unexpected bond. The twist: one story’s shot in black and white as...

January 4, 2018
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Oscar Watch: SFX Makeup Artist Arjen Tuiten on the Immense Responsibility of Working on Wonder

...that once they see themselves in the mirror, the painstaking effort becomes worth it. “As much as actors dislike the process of sitting in the chair every day, they almost always say...

March 2, 2018
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Oscar-Nominated SFX Makeup Artist Arjen Tuiten on the Immense Responsibility of Working on Wonder

...working on Harrelson, Angelina Jolie for Maleficent, or anyone of the actors in World War Z, Pan’s Labyrinth, or Alice and Wonderland, Tuiten says that once they see themselves in the mirror,...

May 29, 2018
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Documentarian Morgan Neville on Revealing Mr. Rogers in Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

...that is who he was. That is very typical of him to not want it to be about him. He would rather hold up a mirror. He often carried a camera out...

October 11, 2018
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Meredith Hagner, Jon Barinholtz, Carrie Brownstein, Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, Nora Dunn, and Chris Ellis in THE OATH. Photo credit: Courtesy of Topic Studios and Roadside Attractions

Ike Barinholtz on his Funny/Terrifying Directorial Debut The Oath

...35 years of fighting with. There’s no other actor that I threw a bag of change at, and gave him a black eye, in 1989. [laughs] And then said I didn’t do...

November 29, 2018
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How Head Full of Honey Production Designer Isabel von Forster Creates a Beautiful Trip

...to the site of one of his most important memories: Venice. This is where he met his late wife, whose saucy black-and-white beach photo (remarkably similar in both films) he has ever...

February 7, 2019
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Celebrating the ASC's Top 10 Films of the 20th Century

...mirror which is then infinitely reflected in an unending row of mirrors, becomes, in a sense, a meta-commentary on what Welles and Toland are up to. They are providing infinite reflections that...

March 24, 2020
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Silent Sunday Nights Host Jacqueline Stewart's Easy Going Film Expertise

...an emotional connection my aunt was making that was valuable to her. I think about that a lot when presenting these films.” Stewart is the first black host in TCM’s 25-year history....

June 29, 2020
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New "Candyman" Spot Creates More Buzz for Nia DaCosta's Film

...of Candyman. The answer he gets further emphasizes the implicit message in the prologue; the things that happened to the original Candyman, and the things that keep happening to Black people in...

June 2, 2021
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Giancarlo Esposito on Breaking Good in "Godfather of Harlem"

...the system are mirrored by Johnson’s machinations outside of them. The series is set in Harlem in the 1960s and is a prequel to Ridley Scott’s American Gangster (2007), which starred Denzel...