With sex, lies and videotape in 1989, Steven Soderbergh re-invented the indie feature. Since then, he’s ping-ponged between big Hollywood crowd-pleasers (Oceans 12, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight) and his own, challenging experiments in filmmaking (The Limey, Full Frontal).... »
What happens when you put an "actor’s director" in the middle of an effects-driven franchise like the Harry Potter films? First, even Mike Newell, ( Four Weddings and a Funeral , Donnie Brasco ... »
Every time director/writer John Stimpson went walking on part of his
property on Wachusett Mountain in Massachusetts, he thought about the
local legend of a haunting that many of his friends claimed to have
experienced.... »
Lew Wasserman was the last of a breed: an old-school Hollywood film
mogul with a spectacular rise and fall. His story intrigued Barry
Avrich, president of Toronto-based advertising agency Endeavor, who has
a track record of directing documentaries about unusual people.... »
What attracted everyone to work on Stephanie Daley—
including leads Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamblyn — is what
cinematographer David Rush Morrison calls "an amazing script."... »
Cinematographer Robert Elswit has had quite a year. With two high-profile projects playing on theater screens during Oscar season, he’s become the go-to guy for socially conscious drama — on both Syriana and the monochromatic Good Night, and Good Luck... »
Lending a feature-film look to the new ABC hit political drama Commander In Chief , which stars Geena Davis as the country’s first female president, has been "a key ingredient to our approach,"... »
Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 marks the fourth collaboration between Rob McLachlan, ASC, CSC, and director James Wong. The two previously merged their talent on Final Destination , The One and Willard... »
When you’re trying to capture the feel of a specific place on film, it makes sense to go on location and soak up the atmosphere. But when Memoirs of a Geisha director Rob Marshall headed to Japan in search of some early 20th Century flavor, he found the region just felt too modern to work... »
Garage-pop band The Greenhornes debuted their first music
video, "Pattern Skies," fresh from delivering the soundtrack to Jim
Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers. Given two-and-a-half
weeks to concept, shoot, edit and animate the video, Lightborne
(Cincinatti, OH) juggled production and post.... »
