ICG February 2010

FEATURES

THE WOLFMAN
DP Shelly Johnson, ASC
By Matt Hurwitz

TEMPLE GRANDIN
DP Ivan Strasburg, BSC
By Bob Fisher

DP – DIT PARTNERSHIP
By Pauline Rogers

NEWS SHOOTERS
By Margot Carmichael Lester

AWARDS SEASON: GOVERNORS & ASC
By Bob Fisher

EXPOSURE: Rick Baker

DEEP FOCUS: Janusz Kaminski

FLASH FRAME: David Plakos

GEAR GUIDE: Awards Season

Meetings With Remarkable Men

Conversations with the 2010 ASC Award winners. By Bob Fisher and David Heuring

For our February Awards Seasons coverage in ICG Magazine, Bob Fisher profiled the 2010 ASC Award winners, who are all longtime ICG members: Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Caleb Deschanel, ASC, International Achievement Award for feature film cinematography Chris Menges, ASC, BSC, Career Achievement in Television Award honoree John C. Flinn, III, ASC and Presidents Award Winner Sol Negrin, ASC. The interviews, all rich and memorable, could not fit in their entirety in the pages of the magazine, so here for the first time is the full text of those conversations with these four remarkable cinematic craftsmen.

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Got My Back!

The critical partnership between the DP and DIT explained…  By Pauline Rogers

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Exposure: Rick Baker

If there is one person in Hollywood worthy of laying claim to the crown worn by Jack P. Pierce – Universal Studios’ makeup genius of the 1930s and ‘40s (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man) – it is Rick Baker. The special effects makeup designer grew up watching monster movies on late night television, and burst into prominence while still in his 20’s, winning an Emmy Award® for his startling aging makeup for Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974). Just seven years later, Baker won the first of his six Academy Awards® for John Landis’ horror comedy, An American Werewolf in London. With The Wolfman, starring Benicio del Toro, Baker not only barks back up the same tree that first earned him Oscar gold, but he puts his own spin on Pierce’s 1941 classic, which starred the legendary Lon Chaney, Jr. Matt Hurwitz went throat to nuzzle with the master of creature makeup to hear about Baker’s designs for the newest incarnation of Hollywood’s favorite monster, as well as his thoughts on the classic films that first fired his imagination.
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Bad Moon Rising

Johnson, ASC and Johnston resurrect one of Hollywood’s most fabled fanged creatures for Universal Pictures’ The Wolfman. By Matt Hurwitz Read more