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Best Of: The Most Bodacious Surfing Movies
Much like an ocean wave, the surfing movie subgenre has seen its share of peaks and...
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DIY Moviemaker: How to Build Sliders and Jibs
How to build sliders and jibs: building two moviemaker must-haves in one easy project. When MovieMaker’s...
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Ray Harryhausen: The Golden Voyage
Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen passed away last week at the age of 92. Long before the days...
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Decoding Annie Parker: Veteran DP Steven Bernstein Takes the Helm
Decoding Annie Parker marks the feature film directing debut of long-time indie cinematographer Steven Bernstein, ASC, who...
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The Face of the Prophet: Vittorio Storaro Photographs The Life of Mohammad
Vittoria Storaro’s ambitious new project is a collaboration with Iranian director Majid Majidi (Children of Heaven,...
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American Film Showcase: Harrison Engle reminesces South Korea
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs launched the American Film Showcase...
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Shooting The Kitchen: Keeping one location visually interesting
In early 2011, my longtime friend and collaborator, director Ishai Setton, told me about a (very)...
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New Generation of Cinematographers: Interview With Stephen Lighthill, ASC
Stephen Lighthill, ASC began his career as a freelance news film cinematographer for “60 Minutes” and...
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Celebrating Female Vision: Cinematographer Anette Haellmigk Wins the Kodak Vision Award
Over a long and accomplished career, cinematographer Anette Haellmigk, whose credits include “The West Wing,” “Big...
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Celluloid Dreams: Matthew Mishory Shoots a First Feature on Film
Director Matthew Mishory’s debut feature, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, is a visually...
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“Dynamation”: The Golden Era of Ray Harryhausen
Long before the days of CGI and motion capture, movie monsters were sculpted by hand and...
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Film or Digital? The Oscars’ll Take Film
As firmly placed in the Age of Digital as moviemaking—especially low-budget indie moviemaking—undoubtedly is, it’s good...
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Form Meets Function with Rampart
Something about procedural cop dramas makes them inherently powerful, and director Oren Moverman’s Rampart is no...
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Celebrating the Flavors of Filmmaking at Slamdance
Last month, Josh Gibson went to the Slamdance Film Festival with his short film Kudzu Vine…...
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Who Needs HD When You’ve Got 4K?
Techies rejoice! A new toy is hitting the market. Of course, JVC’s GY-HMQ10, the world’s first...
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Haskell Wexler: The Last Indie Rebel
So much has been written about Haskell Wexler over the years that I’m going to keep...
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A 3-D Journey Back to the Future: Behind Robert Richardson’s Work on Hugo
Martin Scorsese’s Hugo takes audiences on a 3-D journey inside an underground train station in Paris...
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Dressing Up Shakespeare: Mark Friedberg Designs The Tempest
Mark Friedberg has a knack for creating worlds. As a production designer, it is his responsibility...
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Drawing from the Classics: Tarsem Singh’s Immortals
Tarsem Singh is on a roll. With his new film Immortals—in which Theseus (Henry Cavill) is...
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Craig Brewer & Amy Vincent Cut Loose for Footloose
When director Craig Brewer took on a re-imagining of the 1984 dance classic, Footloose, he turned...
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Jim Whitaker Chronicles Post-September 11th Rebirth
When Jim Whitaker, at the time an executive at Imagine Entertainment, visited New York City a...
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Don’t Go Near the Water: An Interview with Shark Night 3D‘s Director David R. Ellis
Each year, scientists learn more and more about the beauty and intricacy of our home planet....
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Sol Negrin Finds a Home at Five Towns College
We’ve all heard the saying, “You have to crawl before you can walk.” For future moviemakers...
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Panasonic Introduces AG-AC7PJ Camcorder
Great news, techies: Panasonic has just introduced its newest camera, the AG-AC7PJ. This lightweight, low-cost, professional...
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