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Robert Richardson’s 3-D Journey Back to the Future
Noted cinematographer gives the past a cutting-edge look in Martin Scorsese's Hugo
Martin Scorsese's Hugo takes audiences on a 3-D journey inside an underground train station in Paris during the 1930s. The story revolves around a 12-year-old orphan named Hugo, who makes a home for himself behind a wall at the station after his father dies. Hugo interacts with the owner of a small toy booth in the station, an eccentric girl, passengers on the platform and a mechanical man that his father created.
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Sol Negrin Finds a Home at Five Towns College
Sol Negrin, ASC, the cinematographer for "Kojak" and Coming to America, knows first-hand how important it is for newcomers to have the support of an experienced professional. Which is why he is now a professor of Cinematography, passing his knowledge on to the students of Five Towns College in Long Island, New York. MovieMaker spoke to Negrin about his creative influences and the advice he shares with his pupils.
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Digging for Deep Gold with Michael Gleissner
In the new action-thriller Deep Gold, a champion free-diver and her sister are drawn into a deadly conspiracy while investigating the disappearance of a government plane carrying a fortune in gold. Filmed entirely in and around the exotic islands of Cebu and Palawan in the Phillipines, Deep Goldfeatures eye-popping 3-D action sequences.
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Jeff Cronenweth Captures The Social Network
The movie to beat this awards season is undoubtedly David Fincher's The Social Network, which has already nabbed several prestigious honors, including awards from the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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Matt Katsolis Shoots and Scores with Panasonic
When Florida-based moviemaker Matt Katsolis stumbled upon a contest link this past summer, little did he know that he would soon be named the grand prize winner in Panasonic's "Shoot It. Share It" video contest.
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Grete Eliassen Hits the Slopes in Say My Name
23-year-old Grete Eliassen is quickly emerging as a breakout star in the skiing world. Raised in Minnesota and Norway, Eliassen started skiing at the age of two, began competing when she was 10 and turned pro at 17.
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Spike Lee in HD, Courtesy of Canon
Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, famed director Spike Lee returned to document the city’s ongoing recovery efforts.
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Bryan Greenberg Shoots The Perfect Game
In 1957, a little league team from Mexico pitched the only perfect game in history and, even more amazingly, became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
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Sam Levy Gets Romantics
Sam Levy studied as a cinematography fellow at the Sundance Institute Director's Lab in 2007. Three years later, he has returned to Park City as the director of photography on Galt Niederhoffer's film The Romantics.
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Giles Nuttgens Almost Loses A Teardrop Diamond
When The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond’s original director of photography dropped from the project, director Jodie Markell’s first move was to phone cinematographer Giles Nuttgens.
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Technology Changes, DV Expo Remains
Technologies are changing and careers are shifting in the entertainment business, but one thing that has remained constant for 14 years is the Digital Video Expo.
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DV is No Fad, and Neither are the DV Awards
Martin Rhodes was wrong about the success of digital video once, but never again
In 2003, Martin Rhodes knew the world of video production was significantly changing. That's why he created the DV Awards, an international competition awarding video producers of all kinds for excellence in digital video recording and editing.
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Joseph White Aims and Shoots for Repo! Men
Arriving in theaters on November 7th, Repo! The Genetic Opera is a true original—a "science fiction horror rock opera" that is sure to be unlike any other musical you've ever seen. Directed by the Saw series stalwart Darren Lynn Bousman and based on a play by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich (who also wrote the script), the movie takes place in the not-so-distant future, when an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Biotech company GeneCo emerges, offering organ transplants for a price. So how do you mix science fiction, horror, opera and Paris Hilton? Any way you'd like, says cinematographer Joseph White.
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Discover New Technology at HD EXPO New York
Want to learn more about the latest innovative film technology, and even try it out yourself? Then HD EXPO, making its New York City debut on September 25th, will be right up your alley. This exclusive trade show features keynote speakers and intensive workshops that will allow participants to hear how top leaders in the entertainment industry are applying the most up-to-date innovations in their current work. Participants will then be given the chance to test out this eye-popping technology on the HD EXPO exhibit floor. MM spoke with HD EXPO's CEO/founder Kristin Petrovich about the upcoming event.
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Stephen Goldblatt's War on Film
In 2003, Goldblatt teamed up with director Mike Nichols to shoot the highly acclaimed HBO miniseries "Angels in America." Two years later, they worked together again on Closer. So when Nichols asked Goldblatt if he was interested in collaborating once again—on Charlie Wilson's War—the answer was a no-brainer. Not only was Goldblatt intrigued by the story (Nichols had recommend he read the book the film is based on several months earlier during lunch) and impressed by the cast (Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams among them), but he had found his previous outings with Nichols truly rewarding experiences. Goldblatt immediately said yes.
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Vittorio Storaro Paints With His Camera
The Oscar-winning DP channels Caravaggio
A frequent collaborator to moviemaking legends like Francis Ford Coppola and Bernardo Bertolucci, Vittorio Storaro is taking on one of the world's greatest artists with Caravaggio.
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Guillermo Navarro: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Experiment with commercials. I have shot commercials between features since the beginning of my career. They can be experimental, both technically and in the visual language, which contributes to telling stories. I once shot a commercial in the Yukon Mountains where dusk lasted for hours. That gave us an extraordinary opportunity to dig deeper and explore the photographic variables of the location.
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Guillermo Navarro’s Filmmaking Fairytale
Celebrated cinematographer makes history with Oscar for Pan's Labyrinth
Cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, ASC made history when he earned an Academy Award for Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth in 2007, as it was only the second time that a foreign-language film with English subtitles claimed top honors in the Best Cinematography competition.
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Amy Vincent: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I was a camera loader, assistant and camera operator on crews with Bob Richardson, Bill Pope, John Lindley and Darius Wolski. All of them are master cinematographers. They were my mentors. I saw up close how they made decisions and dealt with the cast and crew. That was a big part of my education.
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Michael Ballhaus: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
You never stop learning. I'm still learning every day, on every picture.
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A Lesson in Collaboration
The Departed marks the seventh collaboration between acclaimed cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and legendary director Martin Scorsese
As he approaches his fiftieth anniversary in the movie business, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus sat down with MM for a candid discussion of his life's work-from Beware of a Holy Whore to The Departed-giving plenty of insight into the fine art of writing with light.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Stick to your guns. I got a lot of pressure from the studio heads [shooting the pilot for "Scarface"], who wanted me to "brighten it up." I'd tell them that 'the director doesn't want it bright.' The studio barred me from timing the TV show, but I went into the suite at 5:00 a.m. and did it anyhow. I wasn't invited to shoot another film for that studio for more than 20 years.
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Donald Morgan is Still Making Movie Magic
For veteran DP Donald M. Morgan, the best is yet to come
In a career spanning more than 30 years, cinematographer Donald M. Morgan has worked with Robert Zemeckis, John Carpenter, Roger Young and Joseph Sargent, among others, pulling in six award nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers and nine from the Emmy Awards along the way, all the while maintaining a moxie that pushes the boundaries of his art form.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
It's a good thing to be frightened. In fact, you should be scared every day you go to work. There should be something that is daunting to you that you haven't eliminated all doubts about. There should be something that keeps you awake at night.
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Picture Perfect
Allen Daviau celebrates almost 40 years in the cinematography business
Allen Daviau worked his way up the Hollywood food chain by providing lighting for high school stage plays, working the graveyard shift in photo labs and shooting a live television show for $100 per week. These days he's best known as the cinematographer behind some of cinema's most beautiful photographic moments in such films as E.T., The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun and Bugsy. In the course of his career, Daviau has earned five Academy Award nominations and, in February of 2007, he will receive the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Shooting for an Alternate Reality
Benoît Delhomme discusses his work on Ming-liang Tsai's What Time is it Over There?
We have all heard it said countless times: cinema is a collaborative
art. Anyone who can deliver the goods at a high level of craft
and work well as part of a team is likely to find a healthy
amount of success is the industry. Such a person could be,
like French Director of Photography Benoît Delhomme, a very
busy artist, moving from one interesting project to another,
and collaborating with some of cinema´s most exciting, innovative
moviemakers.
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Whenever I DP a film, I try to bring something different to the table that separates it from my previous work.
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Focusing the Eye Through Composition
An Interview with DP Neal Fredericks
In 1999, Blair Witch mania hit and made instant superstars
out of all those involved. For cinematographer Neal Fredericks,
it was the opportunity of a lifetime. With 10 years of experience
in film, television, commercial and music video experience
behind him, the success of that film was all he needed to
become one of independent film's most in-demand DPs. Here,
Fredericks talks about his preferred filming format, his new
projects, and how his globetrotting childhood helped to hone
a cinematic sensibility.
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What I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
When you get a brilliant idea that sounds familiar, think of a new idea.
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Innovation and Creative Intuition on the Set
An Interview With Legendary Cinematographer John Toll
Though he has been a frequent collaborator with several of
the world's most celebrated directors, John Toll, DP of such
disparate work as Legends of the Fall, Braveheart
and The Thin Red Line has always succeeded in bringing
his own vision to the forefront.
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Tough Love
Sam Jackson tames Christina Ricci-and Amy Vincent catches it all on film-in Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan
After riding an unexpected wave of success with their debut collaboration, Hustle & Flow, writer-director Craig Brewer and cinematographer Amy Vincent are partnering up again, this time on Black Snake Moan, an unconventional "coming of age" story in which an aging blues musician helps to cure a young nymphomaniac of her sexual addiction.
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
I think I've learned to be a bit more diplomatic, although I'm not sure if that's true (laughs). Maybe I've learned not to care so much about what people think. What you really need to learn is that the film is not made on the first day of shooting. It's a long haul. You need to pace yourself over the course of a film.
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Shooting Life
DP Roger Deakins talks about what's important and his collaboration with the Coen Brothers
The sheer number of excellent films Roger Deakins has shot
since his career began in the late 1970s is impressive by
any standard. He is one of the most celebrated cameramen in
Hollywood, and a regular collaborator with Joel and Ethan
Coen. Deakins has worked with some of the most interesting
directors in the business, including David Mamet, Mike Figgis,
Frank Darabont, John Sayles and Martin Scorsese. His most
recent work can be seen in the Oscar-winning film, A Beautiful
Mind, as well as the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There.
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Things I’ve Learned as a MovieMaker
I've learned that the surest way to ensure employment or a career in the movie business is to have a friend or friends that will give you a job. I have had numerous conversations with crew people on how they got their start in the industry. The majority of these chats have included the sentence "well, my friend got me a job as a...". I believe that the more friends you have is directly proportionate to the number of job opportunities available to you.
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Test Driving the Future
The DP behind Like Mike talks about new technology in film
Shawn Maurer never planned to work in film. Though
he grew up appreciating motion pictures, it wasn't until enrolling
in a film class in community college that he realized the
place he belonged was behind the camera. His most recent work
can be seen in the family fantasy, Like Mike, a film
that allowed Maurer the chance to shoot on Fuji's new Reala
500D film.
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