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Cinematographer Ed Lachman Strikes Wonder with “Wonderstruck” - Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum Here’s a question for you: Can illustrated novels be made into compelling films? With his screen production of Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck, director Todd Haynes suggests what it takes. One handy element is cinematographer Ed Lachman. Using Kodak 35mm black-and-white and ...
- 6.59 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“Call Me by Your Name” - Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum Call Me by Your Name is drenched with sun, yet it’s only a partly sunny affair. Luca Guadagnino’s smart and sensuous adaptation of André Aciman’s novel basks the splendors of Northern Italy in the summertime, which is to say, at some point things will tur ...
- 6.6 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat\" - Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum “For many forward-thinking people, the age of the white male was already over,” reflects curator Diego Cortez in Sara Driver’s documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. With that Cortez, who co-founded TriBeCa’s iconic Mudd ...
- 6.6 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”: Fade to Wack - Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum Does anyone in your family listen? The folks in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) sure don’t. And they’re not the only ones to switch off. The scene cuts often stop them at mid-sentence, inviting bemused viewers to absorb the jolt. In his winning new picture, direc ...
- 6.61 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer Shane F. Kelly Unfurls “Last Flag Flying: Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival
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By Laura Blum What is manhood? How are men to act in the world, and where do truth and responsibility fit in? Having studied boyhood in depth, now director Richard Linklater tracks the next phase of masculinity in his new film Last Flag Flying. To help visualize the maturation arc, he once again t ...
- 6.62 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Spotlight on the 55th New York Film Festival - Arthur Miller: Writer
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By Laura Blum “Our children are our biographers,” goes the saying, and in Rebecca Miller’s (Personal Velocity, Maggie’s Plan) documentary about her playwright father Arthur, she takes it to heart. The result, Arthur Miller: Writer, leaves just-the-facts inventorying to ...
- 6.63 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“Loving Vincent”: Interview with Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
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By Laura Blum Who hasn’t looked at Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night and felt the brushstrokes swirl? Like many of the Dutch artist’s oils, the dabs of color rolling around the stars and moon give an illusion of movement. Now along comes Loving Vincent to wrestle that ci ...
- 6.65 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Director Dave McCary Talks “Brigsby Bear”
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By Laura Blum It’s a mainstay of the screenwriting rulebook that a protagonist must undergo special change. But such rules are meant to be broken, and Brigsby Bear, the winsome first feature from Dave McCary, makes the case for non-conformity. That’s because James, the man-child a ...
- 6.8 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“Endless Poetry”: A Conversation with Director/Production Designer Alejandro Jodorowsky
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By Laura Blum Endless Poetry (Poesía Sin Fin) marks director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s third collaboration with his preferred production designer: himself. Like his 1970s cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain, which he also styled, this latest extravaganza takes a pha ...
- 6.82 years ago - By Laura Blum
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