Dec 5 In Dreams

For his final-year graduation film, Northumbria University student Samuel Blain interviewed four people about their dreams, then sought to visualize their bizarre images in a different kind of talking-heads shot.

Dec 4 "Please, Mr. Kennedy"

Actors Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver cut a novelty record in this scene, a highlight of the new Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, set in the New York folk-music scene in 1961. The cinematography is by three-time Oscar nominee Bruno Delbonnel; the editing is, of co…

Dec 3 Mr. Christmas

Bruce Mertz debuts an enormous array of Christmas lights on Thanksgiving night every year at his home in Concord, CA, complete with a recording of "God Bless America" and some banjo Christmas tunes. "Mr. Christmas" is his story. Nick Palmer directed and edited; Amanda Treyz was the cinema…