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February 2008 online articles
Volume 89, Number 2

Island of Lost Souls
Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS emphasizes a survivor’s isolation in the horror thriller I Am Legend

ASC Close-Up
Brief interviews with ASC members about their careers and inspirations. This month: Torben Johnke, ASC

DVD Playback
Reviews of current and upcoming DVD releases:

Featured in the February Print Edition:

  • Checking Dailes by Affonso Beato, ASC, ABC
  • Career Profile on Walter Lassally, BSC
  • Career Profile on Richard Edlund, ASC
  • A Letter to Colleen
  • Honeydripper
  • Electroma
 
DVD PLAYBACK:
Featured Titles
Nosferatu (1922)
Cin: Fritz Arno Wagner
Dir: F. W. Murnau
The Jack Nicholson Collection, Chinatown/The Two Jakes (2007)
Cin: JohnAlonzo, ASC; Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
Dir: Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson
Blade Runner (2007)
Cin: Jordan Cronenweth, ASC
Dir: Ridley Scott

MARCH ’08 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • The Spiderwick Chronicles
  • Cloverfield
  • Desperate Housewives
  • Mad Men
  • Bones
  • ASC Career Achievement in Television Award: George Spiro Dibie, ASC

Departments:

  • Short Takes: Bill Viola
  • Production Slate: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Beladi: A Night at the Pyramids
  • Post Focus: Sibling

APRIL ’08 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • 21
  • The Ruins
  • Principles of 3-D Cinematography
  • Sundance Film Festival

Departments:

  • Short Takes: Milia
  • Production Slate: Paranoid Park and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
  • Global Village: The Counterfeiters
  • Filmmaker’s Forum: Searchers 2.0