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April 2011 online articles
Volume 92, Number 4

Wicked World
Alwin Küchler, BSC renders a dark fairytale world for Hanna

Post Focus

Presidents Desk
American Cinematographer Manual and new technology

DVD Playback
Reviews of current and upcoming DVD releases:

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

Featured in the April Print Edition:

  • Mildred Pierce
  • Optical Filtration and 3-D
  • Sundance 2011
  • Jane Eyre
  • Battle: Los Angeles
  • Red Riding Hood post
 
DVD PLAYBACK:
Featured Titles
All the President’s Men (1976)
Cin: Gordon Willis, ASC
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
The Sound of Music (1965)
Cin: Ted McCord, ASC
Dir: Robert Wise
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Cin: Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
Dir: Woody Allen
 

MAY ’11 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Cinema Vèrite
  • There Be Dragons
  • Prom
  • Digital Imaging, Part 1
  • ASC/Academy Award winners and nominees
  • Academy Scientific and Technical Awards
Departments:
  • Short Takes: 2011 William A. Fraker Student Heritage Award recipients
  • Post Focus: An overview of the non-tethered tape-and-digital workflow employed on-set by Bing Sokolsky, ASC
  • Production Slate: Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  • ASC Close-Up: Tobias Schliessler, ASC

JUNE ’11 HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
  • Thor
  • Prom
  • Digital Imaging, Part 2
  • Historical, Michael Chapman, ASC: Taxi Driver and Raging Bull
Departments:
  • Post Focus: Prime Focus' recently opened New York facility
  • Production Slate: Close Quarters and The Mill and the Cross
  • ASC Close-Up: Dean Semler, ASC, ACS