ICG March 2010
FEATURES
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D
DP Dariusz Wolski, ASC
By Debra Kaufman
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
DP Roger Deakins, ASC
By Debra Kaufman
PIRANHA 3-D
DP John Leonetti, ASC
By Bob Fisher
NAB PREVIEW
By Pauline Rogers
2010 CES SHOW
By Carolyn Giardina
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3D KIND
By Carolyn Giardina
EXPOSURE: Jon Landau
DEEP FOCUS: Peter Anderson, ASC
REPLAY: Step Up 3D
GEAR GUIDE: 3D Focus
DEPTH OF FIELD: The Caretaker 3D
United Nations of Oscar
March 1, 2010 by editor
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Five Cinematographers from Five Different Countries Headline 2010 Academy Award Nominees. By Bob Fisher and David Heuring
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
February 11, 2010 by editor
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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.
Got My Back!
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC & Hector Moreno
The critical partnership between the DP and DIT explained… By Pauline Rogers
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
600 at Sundance
January 18, 2010 by editor
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We titled this web exclusive 600 at Sundance not for the obvious reason, but more because ICG’s massive presence (at the world’s preeminent party celebrating filmmaking of independent vision and spirit) feels like an army descending upon Park City’s snow-bound streets. From short films to competition narratives and documentaries, to midnight genre flicks and everything in-between, the sheer creative breadth of work shot and crewed by IATSE craftsmen and women is remarkable. Consider that the Guild experience meter at Sundance this year ranges from multiple Oscar nominees like Roger Deakins, ASC and Seamus McGarvey, BSC to a first time feature by Texas-based shooter Peter Simonite (Skateland), and a sophomore Sundance effort from Patti Lee, now returning with a documentary (A Small Act) that she both shot and produced, and was picked up by HBO before a single flake of snow has fallen on the festival. Of course having an army (or armada depending on how slushy Main Street becomes) of Local 600 members to blanket Sundance this year isn’t all that surprising: indie filmmaking is an arena filled with warriors, and not for the faint of heart nor craft.
ICG January 2010
FEATURES
THE BOOK OF ELI
DP Don Burgess, ASC
By Margot Carmichael Lester
THE SPY NEXT DOOR
DP Dean Cundey, ASC
By Robert Allen
MODERN FAMILY
DP James Bagdonas, ASC
By Jon Silberg
iPHONE APPS FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY
By Andrew Takeuchi
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NYC
By Pauline Rogers
EXPOSURE: Albert Hughes
DEEP FOCUS: Terry Stacey, ASC
FLASH FRAME: Erik Bright
GEAR GUIDE: Indie Focus
Around the World in How Many Days?
January 6, 2010 by editor
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James Chressanthis, ASC, talks about his travels on the indie film festival circuit - from Cannes to Buenos Aires and everywhere in-between…
By Bob Fisher
