All posts tagged "the master"
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If Beale Street Could Talk DP James Laxton on Using the Large Format Alexa 65 Freely for Barry Jenkins’ Period Romance
Director Barry Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton have enjoyed a meteoric rise through the industry together, from collaborating on shorts in film school in Florida,...
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A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success at the Academy Awards since...
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Seeing Sounds: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Sound Mixes Form a Strange Symphony (Video)
Just as easily as a film’s images can lull its viewers into a trancelike state of submission, so can its sounds wake them from that...
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Large-Format Fun: The Somerville Theatre’s New 70mm & Widescreen Festival
Need more proof that the 70mm theater experience isn’t dead? The Somerville (Massachusetts) Theatre 70mm and Widescreen Festival offers a unique opportunity to see an...
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“Let There Be 70mm:” The Real-life Cinematic Saga Behind Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
When Quentin Tarantino announced that he was going to film The Hateful Eight in Ultra Panavision, a format last used in 1966, words like “ill-considered”...
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85th Academy Awards: They’re a sham, but they’re our sham
Every January when the Academy Awards nominations come out, my reaction follows the same emotional arc. Before I see the list, I start out excited....
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...