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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘True Grit’ costume designer Mary Zophres
In lieu of a typical entry in our Tech Support interview series (which kicked off last week), and on the heels of Friday’s sit-down chat with the Coen brothers, we’re kicking off the week of “True...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘True Grit’ sound mixer Skip Lievsay
Continuing today with our week-long look at the below-the-line elements of the Coen brothers’ “True Grit,” we’re chatting with sound re-recording mixer Skip Lievsay. Along with Carter Burwell, Lievsay...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘True Grit’ cinematographer Roger Deakins
The Coen brothers’ “True Grit” opens nationwide today. And we’re continuing right along with our daily look at the below-the-line talent of the film with director of photography Roger Deakins. Deakins...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘True Grit’ composer Carter Burwell
Nearing the end of our week-long series of interviews with the below-the-line talent of Joel and Ethan Coen’s “True Grit,” we’re talking today with the film’s composer Carter Burwell. Of the entire...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘True Grit’ production designer Jess Gonchor
We’re wrapping things up today with a final look at the below-the-line of Joel and Ethan Coen’s “True Grit” and a chat with production designer Jess Gonchor. You might recall our interview with Gonchor...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Illusionist’ producer Bob Last
It’s been over 10 months since I first reviewed Sylvain Chomet’s dazzling new animated feature “The Illusionist” at the Berlinale, and yet it only finds its way to US theaters tomorrow. A more...
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INTERVIEW: ‘Shutter Island’ director Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” did just fine with audiences this year, bringing in nearly $300 million worldwide and ultimately proving to be the biggest box office hit of his career to date....
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: The design of ‘Alice in Wonderland’
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp may well be poised to go down in film history as one of the famous actor-director duets. Seven collaborations to date have delighted audiences for the past 20 years. They...
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INTERVIEW: ‘Another Year’ actress Lesley Manville
Failing to turn on your voice recorder is any journalist’s fear when conducting a great interview. So after spending close to a half-hour with “Another Year” star Lesley Manville some weeks back, and...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: The construction of ‘The Social Network’
One of the immediately striking things about Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay for “The Social Network” is its assemblage, the manner in which he chose to tell the story with cascading elements of the...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Way Back’ actor Jim Sturgess
When Jim Sturgess’s agents set up a meeting with director Peter Weir, who was casting for his new film “The Way Back,” the actor’s brain was in a different place. He was in the middle of filming...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: The wizardry of ‘TRON Legacy’
It’s somewhat intriguing to note how far the visual effects side of filmmaking has come in the last three decades. When “TRON” was released in 1982, it’s FX wizardry was disqualified from Academy...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘Salt’ sound re-recording mixer Greg P. Russell and...
When Oscar voters spoke up last Tuesday, two intriguing craft category nominations stuck out, both coming from the same branch: Mark P. Stoeckinger’s third bid to date for the sound editing of...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: The makeup of ‘Barney’s Version,’‘The Way Back’ and...
As we have noted a number of times, the makeup branch is one of the Academy’s most independently minded. While many people have criticized them in the past for bestowing the moniker “Oscar nominee” on...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Fighter’ actress Amy Adams
Amy Adams. You know the girl. Sweet, bright-eyed, purveyor of naive, fresh-faced screen creations. You certainly wouldn’t peg her as an expected fit for Charlene Fleming, boxer Micky Ward’s...
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TECH SUPPORT INTERVIEW: ‘Toy Story 3’ composer and songwriter Randy Newman
When the Oscar nominations were announced last month, composer Alan Menken almost tied Randy Newman for third-most nominations among living artists. But Newman inched away, nabbing his own nomination...
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INTERVIEW: Talking westerns and only westerns with ‘True Grit’ actor Jeff...
Last year was the best opportunity to do the career retrospective thing with Jeff Bridges, right at the starting gun of an Oscar-winning steamroll through the film awards season. This time around, the...
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I thought I’d bring this around one more time this weekend. We talked to 37 of this year’s Oscar nominees this season. A few more have been added since we first posted this last month: Ethan Coen...
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You can check out the 37 interviews we conducted with Oscar nominees this season here, but I thought I’d offer up one more list here at the end of things, the 12 interviews we conducted with those who...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Double Hour’ director Giuseppe Capotondi
With this year’s Cannes circus just a week away, now is as good a time as any to point out the strangely hobbled journey taken by so many festival films to our cinema screens. For all the concentrated...
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INTERVIEW: ‘A Better Life’ director Chris Weitz
Filmmaker Chris Weitz has taken a ride on a rather inconsistent career path since making a splash (along with brother Paul) with 1999’s “American Pie.” He followed that raunchy comedy with the...
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INTERVIEW: ‘Contagion’ screenwriter Scott Z. Burns
There’s a scene in 2009’s “The Informant!,” Steven Soderbergh’s tongue-in-cheek look at corporate malfeasance written by Scott Z. Burns, when Matt Damon’s pathological liar Mark Whitacre rants...
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INTERVIEW: ‘Albert Nobbs’ producer, screenwriter and actress Glenn Close
Telluride Film Festival Actress Glenn Close has known the title character of “Albert Nobbs” for nearly 30 years. Ever since she was first asked to audition for the play “The Singular Life of Albert...
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INTERVIEW: ‘The Descendants’ actress Shailene Woodley
Telluride Film Festival If anything or anyone is a break-out, on-the-rise element of this year’s Telluride Film Festival, it’s 19-year-old “The Descendants” star Shailene Woodley. She stars in the film...
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INTERVIEW: ‘Into the Abyss’ director Werner Herzog
Telluride Film Festival Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog first attended the Telluride Film Festival at its second annual way back in 1975. He brought with him “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” which would...
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