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Yesterday I began a final look at the crafts categories. Today, a look at the four remaining fields: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design and Best Film Editing. BEST ART DIRECTION The precursors of the BFCA, BAFTA and Art Directors Guild have been fairly consistent in citing four titles in this category. Last [...]
TECH SUPPORT: Final analysis, part two
Posted by Gerard Kennedy · 9:48 am · January 21st, 2011
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Predict the ASC nominees
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:32 am · January 10th, 2011
Now that the DGA has spoken, something to pass the time. Tomorrow the crafts guilds continue to roll out the season as the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) offers its picks for the best work behind the camera in 2010. This is perhaps my favorite of the below-the-line categories, so I thought I’d offer up [...]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Cinematography — Volume II
Posted by Gerard Kennedy · 11:36 am · October 15th, 2010
Today we take a look a second look at, well, certainly the most “cinematic” of categories: Best Cinematography. As I like to say, cinema is born out of the camera and those who wield these devices enrich our films more than a few words written here could possibly say. From capturing mood, lighting and atmosphere [...]
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INTERVIEW: Peter Weir
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:49 am · September 7th, 2010
Telluride Film Festival For director Peter Weir, the pacing of his output has become almost as measured as his brand of cinema. The Australian has built a career around art house grandeur, but his work has slowed to a handful of films per decade, in stark contrast to the frequency of the 1970s and 1980s. [...]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Cinematography — Volume I
Posted by Gerard Kennedy · 10:58 am · July 23rd, 2010
Of the so-called “tech” categories, Best Cinematography is one of the most popular, certainly for me. The invention of the camera took us beyond radio and literature and set modern art on a path aimed toward the moving picture, and this field recognizes those behind the lens. Cinematography obviously has a massive impact on a [...]
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PAGE TO SCREEN: “The Long Walk” by Slavomir Rawicz
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:15 pm · June 15th, 2010
In one of the year’s more groan-worthy feats of movie marketing magic, Disney recently slapped their plucky horse ’n’ housewife drama “Secretariat” with a paradox of a tagline in “The Impossible True Story.” No sooner had they done so than assorted sniggering blogger types responded with a perfectly reasonable question: if the story is impossible, [...]
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