Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

When we started to think about this year's Siggraph issue, our reporters' ideas came from a more personal direction than usual. Notably, our longtime...

Fade to Black: Jim Morris, Producer 

By Ellen Wolff

Producer Jim Morris vividly remembers his turning point during production of WALL•E, the ninth film and ninth hit of the Pixar/Disney partnership...

Fade to Black: Joachim Trier, Director  

By Darroch Greer

What do Henry James, the Ramones, Alain Resnais, and Diner have in common? Ask Joachim Trier regarding his first feature Reprise, which Scott Rudin has...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Last year, we did a major upgrade to our online virtual press conference resource, The Briefing Room. This daily compilation of industry press releases...

Fade to Black: Stefan Ruzowitzky, Director  

By Darroch Greer

Although Austria has Given Us Many Great Filmmakers Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Preminger Stefan Ruzowitzky is the first to pick up an Academy...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Every year at Sundance one thing is the same, only more so: The working people get squeezed by the rings of concentric irrelevance that orbit the festival...

Fade To Black 

By Darroch Greer

Charles Ferguson is the director of the Oscar-nominated No End in Sight — the trenchant, definitive documentary on the run up to the war in Iraq and the mishandling of its aftermath by the Bush Administration...

Postproduction Music Video Effects Get Complicated  

For Colombian mega-star Juanes, the music video directing duo Aggressive, a.k.a. Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro, created the video for "Me Enamora," the first single off Juanes’ new album La Vida es un Ratico (Universal Music Latino). ...

Fade to Black: Julian Schnabel, Director 

By Darroch Greer

Jean-dominique Bauby, the Editor of French Elle, had a Massive Stroke in 1995 that left him completely and permanently paralyzed...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

So Far, the Web has Been far More Restrained Than TV about invoking the feeling of The Colosseum...