Step by Step: The Golden Compass  

By Ellen Wolff

A photoreal polar bear wearing elaborate armor is a signature image in director Chris Weitz's fantasy film for New Line Cinema, The Golden Compass (recently...

The Morris Microscope  

By Michael Goldman

In 1997, millimeter Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner respectfully accused director Errol Morris of “transgressing the canons of documentary dogma” while writing about Morris’ then-new documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control...

Monstrous Task 

By Ellen Wolff

The poster for Paramount Pictures' Cloverfield depicts the Statue of Liberty standing headless, following a monster's attack on New York City...

Junkyard Filmmaking 

By Michael Goldman

Director Michel Gondry certainly maintained his reputation for offbeat filmmaking with Be Kind, Rewind, which recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival...

Foreign Realism 

By Darroch Greer

Communists are making good villains again. Former communist countries and satellites provide both settings and breeding grounds for some of the most potent...

Audio Podcast: Errol Morris on HD 

Michael Goldman

In early 2008, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris will release his newest work—a look at the circumstances behind the infamous photographs...

Slamdance's HD Fix 

Craig Erpelding

Tao Ruspoli, a filmmaker who has done many documentaries based out of a 1985 Bluebird school bus turned production studio, recently created the Slamdance-selected movie, Fix, on his first attempt at narrative storytelling....

Step by Step: Beowulf  

By Ellen Wolff

There’s a moment near the finale of Paramount Pictures’ Beowulf that reflects the wide-ranging techniques needed to pull off Director Robert Zemeckis'...

Mammoth HD Seeing Red (One) 

Mammoth HD is launching the MHD/Red Gallery with an online sneak peek preview reel and updated gallery Pages featuring frame grabs from footage produced with the Red Digital Cinema Red One camera. ...

Welcome To AES v.2.0 

By Dan Daley

The AES show in New York Oct. 5-8 saw 20,674 visitors to 445 exhibits and more than 150 conference events, making this the largest AES show in more than ten years, according to an AES press release. ...