As Focus Features evolves, an appreciation

Posted by · 1:24 pm · October 2nd, 2013

Focus Features has announced a shift in ideology, folding in FilmDistrict and focusing on a broader cache of product. While the label isn’t dead, the identity will most certainly change. Here’s an appreciation of the best that identity produced over the last decade or more.

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Tech Support: 'American Gangster,' 'Milk' and 'Zodiac' lenser Harris Savides dies at 55

Posted by · 10:12 am · October 11th, 2012

Lenser collaborated frequently with Gus Van Sant, David Fincher and Noah Baumbach.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features celebrate anniversaries in 2012

Posted by · 8:57 pm · March 1st, 2012

Uni floats celebratory Blu-rays while Focus offers up a look back at performances

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Everything old is new again, and again

Posted by · 11:23 am · January 25th, 2012

Where is the line between manipulative and evocative, referential and derivative, or tributary and outright plagiaristic in the use of borrowed scores and imagery in cinema?

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Rhapsody in tweed: on the costumes of 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'

Posted by · 11:20 am · January 17th, 2012

BAFTA voters overruled their own costume branch by handing a Best Costume Design nomination to the soberly colored men’s suits of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” — and they were right to do so.

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