How DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Cinematographer Films Multiple Worlds
The CW has become home for the DC comics since Arrow premiered in 2012. The show’s incredible success prompted spinoffs The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Cinematographer Mahlon Todd Williams designs the dynamic visual style of the time-traveling epic Legends of Tomorrow. Despite the logistical challenges that come with working on one of four interrelated shows, Williams produces visually stunning masterpieces week after week.
The Future of Film: 360 VR
Technology has been propelling storytelling techniques since the advent of the camera. Annie Lukowski and BJ Schwartz are at the forefront of the newest revolution in filmmaking. Their company, Vanishing Point Media, aims to immerse audiences in the story by surrounding them with 360 degrees of action.
Oscar Watch: DP Shoots Lush Oscar-Contender Moonlight Wide Screen Anamorphic
Action franchises like Star Trek, X-Men and Transformers exploit the wide-screen "anamorphic" format so they can showcase epic-scaled explosions. By contrast, the biggest action sequence in coming-of-age drama Moonlight happens when a 14-year old boy busts a chair over the back of his high school classmate. A Best Picture contender, Moonlight takes place in Miami's rough Liberty City neighborhood, where Chiron (portrayed in successive time periods by Alex Hibbert,
The Legendary Sonia Braga Talks Aquarius
Sonia Braga became an international star — and nearly single-handedly put Brazilian cinema on the map — when Bruno Barreto’s 1976 sexy comedy Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands) became a U.S. art-house hit with Braga as the breakout star for her earthy, sensual performance. She followed that with two of her trademark roles: Gabriela (1983) reunited her with Barreto as Braga reprised a role she’d played on a popular telenovela of the same name in Brazil that had already made her a star.
How the Trainer for Bleed For This Whipped Miles Teller into Shape
Boxing coach Darrell Foster had eight months to transform Will Smith into his Oscar-nominated version of Muhammad Ali for the 2001 bio pic Ali. With the fact-based Bleed For This (Nov. l8), he only had a few weeks to teach Miles Teller how to fight like five-time world champion Vinny Pazienza, who severed his spine in a 1991 car crash, then made an astonishing come back and reclaimed his championship belt.
Inches From an Icon: Gimme Danger Cinematographer on Filming Iggy Pop
Cinematographer Tom Krueger has filmed his share of charismatic musicians ranging from Bob Dylan and U2 to Stevie Wonder and David Bowie. But nothing prepared him for the Iggy Pop experience. Shooting Jim Jarmusch-directed documentary, Gimme Danger, Krueger captures the hair-rising misadventures of proto-punk band the Stooges as told by craggy-faced Jim Osterberg, known to the world as Iggy Pop.
Iggy Pop in GIMME DANGER.
Watch Toyko get Crushed in Godzilla: Resurgence VFX Reel
Shin Gojira—which is Godzilla Resurgence to you non Japanese speakers—is the 31st Godzilla film in the franchise, and the 29th produced by the legendary Toho Studios. Co-directed by Hideki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, this latest Godzilla film once again unleashed the most famous monster in movie history on the city of Tokyo.
The film’s premise was clever; when the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line mysteriously floods and collapses (the line is a bridge-tunnel combo that runs across Tokyo bay),
Manchester by the Sea‘s Composer on Scoring Kenneth Lonergan’s Masterpiece
Ever since screenings at the Sundance, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, and now just this past weekend at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s haunting Manchester by the Sea has been generating awards season buzz not just for Lonergan and the solid cast headed by Casey Affleck, but also for composer Lesley Barber.
Barber, who lives in Toronto, has earned international acclaim over the past two decades for her film scores,
Watch This Stunning, Devastating Pixar Short
Pixar animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coates quietly released their short film, Borrowed Time, on Vimeo for a limited time only, just a few days ago. It's crushing. Pixar has long established itself as a studio that manages to mix the existential with the exciting, the melancholy with the mercurial. At their best, from Toy Story to Up to Wall-E, Pixar makes animated films that dont shy away from ruminating on life in all its complexity,
Designated Survivor‘s Production Designer on Creating a Dystopian D.C.
Production designer Cabot McMullen has created the settings for television series from Saturday Night Live to Scrubs, Smash, and Cougar Town. Before the audience hears a line of dialog, sometimes before they even see a character, McMullen has to let us know immediately what world we are in. That is not just identifying the story as gritty reality or heightened humor or fantasy;
Talking to Composer Abel Korzeniowski About Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals
When I interviewed Abel Korzeniowski in August of 2015, it was to discuss his work on the small screen, specifically Penny Dreadful. Yet what had drawn me to his work, long before I ever knew I’d be speaking with him, was his score for Tom Ford’s A Single Man. Lush, at turns haunting and, from beginning to end, totally gorgeous, Korzeniowski's A Single Man score became a major part of my listening rotation.
From Storyboard to Animation: See how Pixar Created Toy Story 2
Storyboards are an essential part of the filmmaking process, and perhaps no studio on the planet relies on them quite the way that Pixar does. A Pixar storyboard is essentially a hand-drawn version of the movie, and helps the artists making diagram the action and the dialogue. The storyboard is basically the blueprint for the film. "Each storyboard artist receives script pages or a 'beat outline', a map of the characters' emotional changes that need to be seen through actions,"
Darren Fung on Scoring The Great Human Odyssey
Composer Darren Fung’s sweeping score for PBS’ The Great Human Odyssey earned him a Canadian Screen Award for best music, but he almost didn’t take the project on. When anthropologist Dr. Niobe Thompson first approached Fung about the job, the response was unsure. “In all honesty, I kind of thought when Niobe had his vision of what the music was going to be, he couldn’t afford it,” Fung remembered.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Costume Designer Ann Foley Gives Superheroes Style
Throughout four action-packed seasons of ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., costume designer Ann Foley has created the look for an ever-expanding cast of characters in the Marvel Comic Universe (MCU). The show brought on two new characters this season that fans have welcomed feverishly. The antihero Ghost Rider, who has a penchant for flaring up, and android Aida, built in secret by Radcliffe,
Historian Deborah Lipstadt on Inspiring the new Film Denial
Deborah Lipstadt's History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier recounts a deadly serious farce: Almost two decades ago, the Emory University professor found herself in a London court, defending herself in a libel case brought by David Irving, a self-styled historian whose books take a pro-Nazi view of World War II and the genocide of Europe's Jews and other victims. The book was recently republished under the title Denial,
Atticus Shaffer Talks Growing Up on The Middle
Over the impressive seven season run of ABC’s The Middle, Brick has been the oft forgotten third child of Frankie (Patricia Heaton) and Mike Heck (Neil Flynn). His family has literally forgotten him at work and school, but actor Atticus Shaffer has become a fan favorite. A child actor no more (he just turned 18), Atticus has played Brick Heck since he was eight years old.
Socially awkward, book smart Brick is a sage and precocious observer who often teaches adults a life lesson or two.
The Dressmaker’s Costume Designer’s Stunning Creations
The Dressmaker, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and adapted from Rosalie Ham’s beloved novel, stars Kate Winslet as Tilly Dunnage, a chic, sophisticated dressmaker who returns from Paris to her small Australian outback town to find out the truth behind the scandal she was at the center of as a child. We speak to costume designer Marion Boyce about designing the incredible costumes, alongside Margot Wilson, that are the backbone of this offbeat comedy/drama.
Mark Duplass on Stripping Away Artifice For Blue Jay
Mark Duplass readily admits he’s “a schmaltz hound.”
“I have it deep in me. I can put on Same Time, Next Year or Somewhere in Time and just go for it,” he says. “I’m a nostalgic and melancholic person and I normally try to curb that in my art because I feel like if I don’t, it’s going to run rampant over everything. With this movie,
Dressing the Goofballs of Masterminds
Boasting credits that include George Clooney's Michael Clayton and Angelina Jolie's Salt, costume designer Sarah Edwards usually dresses glamorous stars in sleek outfits for serious adult dramas.
And then there's Masterminds.
Based on an actual 1997 North Carolina heist and directed by quirky Napoleon Dynamite filmmaker Jared Hess, Masterminds stars Zach Galifianakis as a simple-minded armored truck guard who conspires with trailer park goofballs (Owen Wilson and Kristen Wiig) to steal $17.3 million from his employer.
The 54th Annual New York Film Festival Begins Today
The 54th annual New York Film Festival kicked off today with the premiere of 13TH at the Alice Tully Hall movie theater in Upper West Side, Manhattan. Directed by Ava DuVernay, the documentary explores the intricate prison system and incarceration of modern America. Commenting on her film’s subject material, DuVernay said in interview with The Village Voice, “I wanted to give people this information so that they couldn’t say they didn’t know anymore.
