Exposure: Patrick Lussier [web exclusive]
Filmmaker Patrick Lussier provides “deep background” on the making of My Bloody Valentine 3D, in a preview conversation of his keynote address at the upcoming Digital Cinema Summit at NABShow, Las Vegas. By John Rootenberg
Power Train
Amir Mokri and Justin Lin put pedal-to-the-metal to juice up Hollywood’s baddest, loudest street racing franchise, Fast & Furious. By Jon Silberg
Pieces of My Heart
April 2, 2009 by editor
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Polish-born DP Jerzy Zielinski, ASC returns to his homeland for a haunting tale of heroism under fire. By Bob Fisher
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)
Philosopher George Santayana’s timeless insight into human nature is a compelling reason to tune in on the evening of April 19 when CBS Television airs The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a Hallmark Hall of Fame Production. The telefilm takes audiences on a cinematic journey to Poland during the early 1940s where a courageous woman rescued approximately 2,500 children from becoming victims of the Holocaust.
Irena Sendler was a nurse in Warsaw when the German army invaded and occupied Poland in 1939. Some 380,000 of the 1.3 million people who lived in Warsaw were Jewish. The Nazis isolated them in a 10-square-mile ghetto surrounded by a brick wall topped with broken glass. Within a few months, an estimated 400,000 people were living on the edge of starvation in an area roughly the size of Central Park in Manhattan.
