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Writer-director Patty Jenkins has hit the ground running with her first feature, the widely acclaimed, Monster, a riveting and dark […]
Writer-director Jean-Jacques Annaud/Paramount Pictures After a three-year absence, French moviemaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is back–returning to theaters this summer with Two […]
With his new picture, Baby Boy, writer-director John Singleton returns to his own backyard in South Central Los Angeles for […]
Over the course of a career that began some 40 years ago, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has penned over 20 screenplays, including many adaptations of novels.
“[Being a director is about] being an observer—a pair of eyes with some sort of taste attached—someone who can understand […]
Anthony Minghella discusses a shot with cinematographer John Seale on Cold Mountain. Anthony Minghella met with MM over lunch while […]
Moviemakers Leigh, Jaglom, Duvall and Loach are latest in a long line of “naturalistic” directors or nearly as long as […]
Sound is one aspect of the film craft which, because of the medium’s overwhelming visual bias, is often undernourished—even by […]
Sound recording technology for film has remained surprisingly constant over the years. Before the arrive of DAT (Digital Audio Tape) […]
Francesca LoSchiavo and Dante Ferretti have collaborated on eight films. Dante Ferretti designed his first picture, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea, […]
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme has never shied away from exploring the often shadowy and troubled contours of the American story landscape.
The initial flowering of cinema in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century occurred in much the same way […]
“It captures a great image,” says DP Mark Benjamin of the Sony PD-150 camera. High Definition, Digital Betacam, DV Cam, […]
Some 40-plus years ago a gifted band of moviemakers—celebrated the world over as the French ‘New Wave’—were playfully reinventing the rules of the game.
Vinícius de Oliveira and Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station (1998), an international hit for Brazilian director Walter Salles. Moviemaking came […]
