October 4, 2013
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One of the Greatest Cinematographers Ever: Gravity's Emmanuel Lubezki

...with his ex-wife Julian (Julianne Moore), the leader to a revolutionary force known as the Fishes, which bears major secret—they’ve found a young, pregnant African woman, Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey). Kee is a...

June 8, 2018
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Andrea Riseborough on Bringing the Complex, Searching Nancy to Life

...Why do you think reflecting a wider expression of womanhood is so essential? I can’t understand how people don’t make the connection that when women are misrepresented, underrepresented, or not represented at...

September 15, 2020
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"Lovecraft Country" Director Cheryl Dunye on Shapeshifting & More in Episode 5

...from this background of working with Ava DuVernay and come from a place of empowered woman directors who are given the opportunity to tell stories they haven’t been able to tell before...

November 11, 2020
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Writer/Director Francis Lee on His Hard Scrabble Love Story "Ammonite"

...will never underestimate how wonderful that was.” Neon is releasing Francis Lee’s awards contender Ammonite theatrically on Friday (November 13) in the US followed by the company’s first PVoD (premium video on...

June 27, 2022
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"Winning Time" Cinematographer Todd Banhazl on Capturing the Flow State

...one technique, it was a combination of all the tools that sold the illusion. Smaller pieces of furniture or lower door frames were built into the sets. Apple box highways, forced perspective,...

July 11, 2023
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“The Last of Us” Cinematographer Ksenia Sereda on Shining a Light in the Darkness

...can get drawn to terrifying things. One example of this is in the pilot when Joel’s daughter, Sarah (Nico Parker), is in the neighbor’s house just as the wheelchair-bound older woman is...

June 12, 2023
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"Arnold" DP Logan Schneider on Shooting Schwarzenegger

...interviews with famous collaborators like Jamie Lee Curtis and James Cameron, but the core story comes directly from the world-famous bodybuilder-turned-movie star-turned-California governor. Filming intermittently over two years mainly at Schwarzenegger’s Brentwood...

October 30, 2023
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MPA Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office in Response to Notice of Inquiry on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

...beneficiaries of technological innovation. Creators are innovators by nature; they always rely on a range of tools, including technological tools, to give life to their artistic vision and to connect their works...

November 13, 2019
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Photo Credit: Merrick Morton. Courtesy 20th Century Fox/Walt Disney Studios

How Ford v Ferrari's Production Designer Rebuilt the World's Greatest Race Track Piece-by-Piece

...cinematographer], the producer and I—and we found that it’s completely unrecognizable now. It’s all built up, there are these huge barriers on each side to make it safer. Everything’s been completely engineered...

December 20, 2019
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Best of 2019: How Ford v Ferrari's Production Designer Rebuilt the World's Greatest Race Track Piece-by-Piece

...to have the tools that would let them perform in this high-speed ballet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkCqox_MhE Why couldn’t you use the wide-angle lenses and the rest of the techniques to give the illusion of...