Getting More Immersed with Indiewire
Immersed in Blu-ray: Hitchcock and Bogart
Immersed in Books: Farber on Film
The Penske Media purchase of Indiewire has resulted in an expansion of my role as crafts and awards season contributor. Beginning this week, I begin Emmy coverage of below-the-line contenders along with my usual Oscar season crafts reporting, working closely with Anne Thompson, Indiewire’s full-time editor-at-large and awards editor, as well as publisher James Israel, editor-in-chief Dana Harris, and New York Deputy editor Eric Kohn. Read more
The WB Archive Collection gets Hitch and Bogie on Blu-ray and they’ve never looked better for home viewing. Read more
In honor of its 60th anniversary, The Ten Commandments returns to the big screen March 20 and March 23, as part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series with Fathom Events Read more
There’s more exquisite beauty and stop-mo complexity in the latest trailer for Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings (Aug. 19, Focus Features). Read more
The Mirisch Agency, founded in 1992 by agent Larry Mirisch as a below the line boutique, is dedicated to “the client, the work and people realizing their stated goals.” It therefore tailors representation to each person. Therefore, when a job query comes in, Mirisch and his colleagues examine the list of available clients to see who matches the specified requirements and is interested in “stretching into that” to avoid any pigeonholing. Mirisch reps editors, cinematographers, production designers, line producers, VFX Supervisors, VFX producers, producers and costume designers. Read more
Pixar’s underrated The Good Dinosaur (which took VFX prizes at the VES and Annies) was released on Blu-ray last week from Disney with a treasure trove of informative bonus features about the studio’s first prehistoric buddy comedy/adventure. Read more
Turns out there was a great deal of surprising diversity among last night’s Oscar winners. And it was all about championing the outsider. Read more
For costume designer Jenny Beavan and the makeup & hairstyling team of Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega, and Damian Martin, the journey of Mad Max: Fury Road was all about figuring out a day in the life of the wasteland survivors: Max (Tom Hardy), Furiosa (Charlize Theron), Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his wives, and the War Boys. Read more
For these contenders, it’s about getting dressed for beauty, necessity, survival, and transformation. Read more
The upcoming FMX conference in Stuttgart (April 26-29) will be devoted to “Blending Realities.” I look forward to participating once again. Read more
