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May 2008 online articles
Volume 89, Number 5

Heavy-Metal Hero
Matthew Libatique, ASC brings Iron Man to the big screen

Post Focus

DVD Playback
Reviews of current and upcoming DVD releases:

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

Featured in the May Print Edition:

  • Speed Racer
  • Deception
  • AMPAS Sci Tech Awards
  • The Fall
  • Anamorph
  • Fugitive Pieces
  • The Godfather Restoration1
 
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DVD PLAYBACK:
Featured Titles
All the President’s Men (1976)
Cin: Gordon Willis, ASc
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
Amarcord (1973)
Cin: Giuseppe Rotunno, ASC, AIC
Dir: Frederico Fellini
Brazil (1985)
Cin: Roger Pratt, BSC
Dir: Terry Gilliam
Body Heat (1981)
Cin: Richard Kline,, ASC
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
The Premiere Frank Capra Collection (1932)
Cin: Joseph Walker, ASC
Dir: Frank Capra
Bugsy (1991)
Cin: Allen Daviau, ASC
Dir: Barry Levinson
All That Jazz (1979)
Cin: Giuseppe Rotunno, ASC, AIC
Dir: Bob Fosse
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Cin: Michael Chapman, ASC
Dir: Philip Kaufman
Days of Heaven (1978)
Cin: Nestor Almendros, ASC
Dir: Terrence Malick
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cin: Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
Dir: Steven Spielberg
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JUNE ’08 HIGHLIGHTS edited:

  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  • Sex and the City: The Movie
  • Arri's 90th Anniversary

Departments:

  • Short Takes: 100 Days Music Video
  • Production Slate: Mongol
  • Post Focus: Imax Film Wild Ocean
  • Filmmaker’s Forum: John Bailey, ASC

JULY ’08 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • The Dark Knight
  • Hancock
  • Get Smart
  • 30 Rock

Departments:

  • Short Takes: On a Tuesday
  • Production Slate: WALL-E and Before the Rains
  • Post Focus: The 2008 Vegas NAB Show
  • Global Village: Torn from the Flag
  • ASC Close-Up: Bill Taylor, ASC