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A Banner Year for Special Makeup Effects
Every autumn in the entertainment industry, the many below-the-line crafts in a year’s films are often under appreciated by a celebrity-oriented press corps, both foreign and domestic, who often seek nothing but a parade of stars come the lengthy awards season. Yet, the various crafts in a film, with the artists behind those... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Sian Grigg, J. Edgar
Among the films receiving attention for its makeup and effects is J. Edgar. The story of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the Clint Eastwood film posits the title character at four separate age stages: his early 20s, his mid-30s, his early-40s and his early-70s. Responsible for mastering these stages was Leo... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Julie Hewett, The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, The Artist, brings audiences back to the freewheeling world of silent films in the roaring twenties. Without question, this black-and-white period film about movies themselves required close attention to detail in all departments including cinematography, costume design and art direction. But the makeup department had to work just... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Matthew Mungle, Albert Nobbs
Oftentimes, high-quality work in smaller-budgeted films is less recognized come awards season than those films’ older brothers, the big-budget studio tentpoles. Case in point this year might be Albert Nobbs, both a period and foreign-produced film which manages to create a visceral world onto itself inside of an $8-million budget. This film is a... »
Scorsese Hails His Below-the-Line Collaborators for the Enchanting Hugo
A renowned student of film history and craftsmanship, director Martin Scorsese was eager to acknowledge his many collaborators, both present and in name only, for his new fantasy film, Hugo at a special event in Los Angeles on Nov. 5. Flanked by cinematographer Robert Richardson, composer Howard Shore, production designer Dante Ferretti, editor... »
Canon Launches Cinema EOS System
At a gala spectacle on Nov. 3, 2011, on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, Canon debuted their C Series lightweight and portable video cameras, featuring the EOS C-300. This particular camera includes an EF mount system to support EF lenses and EF cinema lenses, but it also has a PL mount. The... »
Titanic To Sail Again in 3D in April, 2012
Titanic, James Cameron's lavish spectacle, released in 1997 and winning 11 of its 14 Oscar nominations, is getting a makeover, courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. At Paramount on Oct. 28, Cameron and producer Jon Landau unveiled 18 minutes of the film that has been converted to 3D after a complete scan... »
Halloween Comes Early as Horror Runs Amok in Big Bear
In Southern California, one location offers a rocky lakeside backdrop that might be the setting in a classic '80s slasher film such as Friday The 13th. The region famously boasts scenery as diverse as mountains, beaches and desert, and what better place to set a horror film festival than a gothic mountainous resort... »
Director Renny Harlin Launches 5 Days of War
From Aug. 7 until Aug. 16 of 2008, the sovereign nation of Georgia was invaded by Russian troops in a military offensive that might have shocked the world - if it had been widely reported. However, the 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, took place in Beijing,... »
Director Series
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear
January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »