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Yellow Submarine Gets a Film Restoration and 4K Remaster
In The Beatles' 1968 animated classic Yellow Submarine, George Harrison declares, "It's all in the mind." But dirt, tears and scratches on the iconic film's original camera negative were all too real. So discovered restoration supervisor Paul Rutan, Jr. and his …
Slick and Sexy is the Right Look for True Blood
Vampire tales trace their roots to Central European legends, and many Gothic novelists punched up their stories with bloodthirsty baddies before Bram Stoker published Dracula in England in 1897. In 1921, F.W. Murnau directed Nosferatu, a brilliant landmark of the …
Editor Andrew Weisblum, ACE, on Moonrise Kingdom
Moonrise Kingdom, the story of Sam, a young Khaki Scout who flees summer camp for a seaside rendezvous with Suzy, the girl of his dreams, stirring up all kinds of trouble on the fictional island of New Penzance, is the …
VFX Snapshot: The Senate’s Spooky Dark Shadows Manor
London's The Senate VFX finished 186 shots for Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's highly art-directed revival of the 1960s TV series. The Senate's visual-effects supervisor, Anton Yri, was on set for first-unit production as well as model photography, as elements were …
How ILM Built a Blasted-Out NYC
All the heroes for The Avengers don’t appear onscreen. With a film this dependent on visual effects, you’d have to consider work by the crews at all the studios who completed the highly-praised shots on a tight schedule as heroic. …
How Weta Digital Made Gods Grapple in The Avengers
“It’s gods fighting each other,” says Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Guy Williams, describing a fight between Iron Man and Thor in The Avengers, one of many for which the studio supplied digital doubles and a CG Iron Man. For …
Getting the Right Color for Comedy in 21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street may be a comedy, but it doesn’t look like one. On the contrary, much of the film more closely resembles the gritty, streetwise cop dramas it pokes fun at. That was a deliberate choice by directors Phil …
Looking at Sex and the Small Town in Turn Me On, Dammit
Turn Me On, Dammit is a coming-of-age film, based on an already notorious book by Norwegian writer Olaug Nilssen, that takes a gentle but unblinking look at adolescent sexuality as experienced by a small group of teenagers in their hated small …
Director Jay Kriss on Harvesting the High Plains
When filmmaker Jay Kriss, an experienced director of photography, decided to make his debut as a documentarian, the project was even more daunting than you might expect. His film, Harvesting the High Plains, is slated to debut on public television …
Stalkr’s Fast-Paced Archival Montages Rev Up New Mazda Spot
With The Artist and Hugo winning big at the Oscars and Mad Men finally headed back to TV for a fifth season, it's hard not to be in a retro mood. Stalkr, the production company behind a hip new spot …