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March 2009 online articles
Volume 90, Number 03

Cutting-Edge Camerawork
Cinematographers from the TV series Dexter, Life on Mars, True Blood and The Unusuals analyze their strategies

A Life Full of Miracles
Robert F. Liu, ASC receives the ASC Career Achievement in Television Award

A Very Active Member
Isidore Mankofsky, ASC reflects on his life’s work after receiving the Society’s Presidents Award

DVD Playback
Reviews of current and upcoming DVD releases:

ASC Close-Up
Brief interviews with ASC members about their careers and inspirations. This month: Peter Wunstorf

Featured in the March Print Edition:

  • Clap Your Brains Off
  • Gomorrah
  • Tokyo Sonata
  • Alien Trespass
DVD PLAYBACK:
Featured Titles
The Films of Budd Boetticher (1957-1960)
Cin: Lucien Ballard, ASC; Burnett Guffey, ASC; Charles C. Lawton Jr., ASC;
Dir: Budd Boetticher
Baraka (1992)
Cin: Ron Fricke
Dir: Ron Fricke
Chungking Express (1992)
Cin: Christopher Doyle, HKSC
Dir: Kar-wai Wong

APRIL ’09 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Watchmen
  • Knowing
  • Sundance Film Festival
  • Restoring The Robe
Departments:
  • Post Focus: Autodesk Lustre and Digital Jungle
  • Production Slate: Hunger and Crank 2: High Voltage
  • ASC Close-Up: Thomas Ackerman, ASC

MAY ’09 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  • State of Play
  • The Soloist
  • Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
  • ASC/Academy Award winners and nominees
  • Academy Scientific and Technical Awards
Departments:
  • Short Takes: Bud Stone Heritage Award Student Awardees
  • Production Slate: Grey Gardens, and Adoration
  • The Red Machine and My Suicide
  • ASC Close-Up: John Lindley, ASC