Production Designer Dennis Gassner worked as a lumberjack when he was a young man, which made him uniquely qualified to envision the forest set of Rob Marshall’s “Into the Woods.”
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How former lumberjack Dennis Gassner conjured a forest for 'Into the Woods'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:38 am · January 19th, 2015
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'Blackhat' director Michael Mann has a worst-case cyber-attack scenario for you
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:41 am · January 14th, 2015
HitFix sits down with “Blackhat” director Michael Mann to discuss his latest film, cyber-terrorism, the Sony hack and more.
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Weta wizards describe the progression from 'Rise' to 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 3:17 pm · January 5th, 2015
HitFix talks to visual effects supervisors Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon about their work on “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”
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Roger Deakins got the biggest compliment of his career for 'The Shawshank Redemption'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:56 am · December 26th, 2014
Concluding a series of short interviews with cinematographer Roger Deakins covering films like “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “Sid and Nancy,” “Barton Fink,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Kundun,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “The Man Who Wasn’t There” and “The Village.”
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How Weta Digital pushed the FX envelope over the 13-year Middle Earth saga
Posted by gerardkennedy · 1:54 pm · December 25th, 2014
HitFix chats with Weta visual effects supervisors Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon about the bittersweet close to Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth saga, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.”
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Roger Deakins looks back on 1997's 'Kundun,' his only Scorsese collaboration to date
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:39 am · December 25th, 2014
Continuing a series of short interviews with “Unbroken” cinematographer Roger Deakins covering a range of topics from “Sid and Nancy” to “The Shawshank Redemption” to “Barton Fink.”
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Roger Deakins remembers making it up as he went along on Alex Cox's 'Sid and Nancy'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:05 am · December 24th, 2014
Continuing a series of short interviews with “Unbroken” cinematographer Roger Deakins looking back on films like “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “Kundun,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Man Who Wasn’t There.”
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Roger Deakins says working with the Coens on 'Barton Fink' changed his whole outlook
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:12 am · December 23rd, 2014
Continuing a series of short interviews with “Unbroken” cinematographer Roger Deakins about a wide range of films, from “Nineteen Eighty-Four” to “The Man Who Wasn’t There” to “The Shawshank Redemption.”
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Roger Deakins reflects on 'The Village' and M. Night Shyamalan's obsession
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:26 am · December 22nd, 2014
Continuing a series of short interviews with cinematographer Roger Deakins about films like “Sid and Nancy,” “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” “Kundun” and “The Shawshank Redemption.”
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Jack O'Connell knew playing Louis Zamperini in 'Unbroken' was going to hurt
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:52 am · December 22nd, 2014
Jack O’Connell sits down with HitFix to discuss his work in Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken,” a grueling ordeal that the actor anticipated.
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Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki details the 'dance' of filming 'Birdman'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:45 am · December 20th, 2014
HitFix talks to Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (“Gravity”) about the intense production of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Birdman,” which was filmed through a series of long, extended takes.
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Roger Deakins recalls 'The Man Who Wasn't There' and film noir favorites
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:17 am · December 19th, 2014
Continuing a series of short interviews with cinematographer Roger Deakins that include closer looks at films like “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Kundun” and “The Village.”
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How the ticking of a clock helped editor William Goldenberg pace 'The Imitation Game'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 2:42 pm · December 18th, 2014
HitFix chats with “The Imitation Game” editor William Goldenberg, two years removed from his Oscar win for “Argo.”
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Roger Deakins looks back on 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and the days of cinema alchemy
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:25 am · December 18th, 2014
Kicking off a series of short interviews with cinematographer Roger Deakins, looking back on films like “Sid and Nancy,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Kundun” and more.
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'Nightcrawler' director Dan Gilroy calls out media behavior in the wake of Sony hack
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:35 pm · December 17th, 2014
In the wake of the recent Sony hack, media outlets published stolen private information willy-nilly, recalling the scavenger-like behavior of the news gatherers depicted in Dan Gilroy’s film “Nightcrawler.” Gilory, a former Variety reporter, had plenty of thoughts on that when he spoke to HitFix recently.
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Angelina Jolie says the Coen brothers brought a lack of sentimentality to 'Unbroken'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:43 pm · December 17th, 2014
“Unbroken” director Angelina Jolie sits down with HitFix to discuss whittling Louis Zamperini’s epic life into a consumable film.
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Film editor Christopher Rouse on Paul Greengrass, Oscar nominations and 'Captain Phillips'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:19 pm · February 7th, 2014
Christopher Rouse recently earned his third Oscar nomination for Paul Greengrass’ “Captain Phillips” and Friday night, he picked up his second ACE Eddie Award to date. HitFix recently spoke to him about the on-going collaboration with Greengrass, the Academy Awards and the journey of his latest.
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'Wolf of Wall Street' scribe responds to criticisms and his first-ever Oscar nomination
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:57 am · January 21st, 2014
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Terence Winter talks to HitFix about reaction to “The Wolf of Wall Street” and hist first-ever Oscar nomination for wrangling Jordan Belfort’s epic memoir.
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