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Editor's Note

Aug 01, 2008; Pizzello, Stephen ... Fans of X-Files investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been waiting patiently for the next chapter in the duo's adventures since 2002. Having made the leap from television to the big screen in the 1998 feature Fight the Future, the pair has returned in The XFiles: I Want to Believe, the ...

Letters

Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Forum Riposte Regarding the recent Filmmakers' Forum penned by John Bailey, ASC ("The Dl Dilemma, or Why I Still Love Celluloid," June '08), I'm glad someone's carrying on the grand tradition of grumpy cinematographers. (I trained under Charles G. Clarke, ASC.) Bailey ends his piece, "I ...

Short Takes: Touring the World for Death Cab for Cutie

Aug 01, 2008; Stasukevich, Iain ... Director Aaron Stewart-Ahn became good friends with the members of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie after years of documenting their live performances. This led to an opportunity to direct a music video for Death Cab's "Stable Song" in 2006, and on the strength of that job, Stewart-Ahn ...

Production Slate: Blazing Action and Frigid Drama

Aug 01, 2008; Witmer, Jon D; Oppenheimer, Jean ... High Comedy by Jon D. Witmer "I was eager to work in comedy," says director David Gordon Green, who has been known for dramatic features such as George Washington (2000) and All the Real Girls (AC April '03). The opportunity to tickle the ribs finally presented itself when Green ...

Dark Matters

Aug 01, 2008; Bosley, Rachael K ... Mulder and Scully return to the FBI in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, shot by Bill Roe, ASC, and directed by Chris Carter. Picking up with Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) six years after we last saw them, The X-Fiks: I Want to Believe reveals that the pair ...

The Early Days of a Hit

Aug 01, 2008; Bosley, R ... Widely credited alongside art director/production designer Graeme Murray for helping to establish "the X-Files look," director of photography John S. Bartiey, ASC, CSC, who shot the series' first three seasons, notes that although certain elements of the style were set early on, many of the ...

Fathers of the Bride

Aug 01, 2008; Hope-Jones, Mark ... Haris Zambarloukos, BSC heads to the Greek islands to shoot Mamma Mia!, a scenic musical romp about a fiancée with three possible papas. Based on the popular stage musical of the same name, the film Mamma Mia! uses hit songs by the Swedish supergroup Abba to tell the story of Sophie ...

The Emperor Strikes Back

Aug 01, 2008; Kadner, Noah ... Simon Duggan, ACS films the effects-laden adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In the latest installment of the Mummy series, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, we find wisecracking adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wife, Evelyn (Maria Bello), enjoying a life of ...

An Eye-Popping Adventure

Aug 01, 2008; Argy, Stephanie ... A team of top pros creates 3-D images for the adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth. '3-D is easy," jokes Ed W. Marsh, the visual-effects editor and 3-D consultant on Journey to the Center of the Earth. "It's making the same movie perfectly, twice, with one of them approximately 2 ...

Post Focus

Aug 01, 2008; Silberg, Jon ... Reach for Me Tests Dalsa 4K Workflow In the rapidly evolving world of digital cinematography, camera technology can precede by months or even years any practical post workflow. That was the case with Dalsa's Origin, which has been capturing images with its single Bayer-pattern (GRGB) ...

Filmmakers' Forum: Creating IQ-145 for the Web

Aug 01, 2008; Dickson, Billy ... When I first started to dream about making movies, I was filled with stories and ideas I wanted to see on the screen. I spent my formative years writing these stories down on paper, looking forward to the day when I could produce and direct them for an audience. Cinematography eventually became ...

New Products & Services

Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Stereoscope Opens Doors for 3-D Post Responding to Hollywood's growing demand for 3-D production and postproduction, Stereoscope has opened in Burbank to serve the creative community. Equipped with the new version of Quantel's Pablo 4K color-grading system, which can handle real-time ...

In Memoriam: Clifford H. Poland Jr., ASC, 1916-2008

Aug 01, 2008; Witmer, Jon D ... Clifford H. Poland Jr., ASC, whose work graced productions ranging from "cheapies" such as Fireball Jungle (1969) and Wild Rebels (1967) to high-concept adventure pictures such as Around the World Under the Sea (1966), died on April 17, 2008, at the age of 91. Bom Aug. 1, 1916, in ...

Clubhouse News

Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Okada Earns Third Term Elections were held in June for the 2008-09 term, with Daryn Okada, ASC elected president of the Society for the third year in a row. His fellow officers are ASC members Michael Goi, Owen Roizman and Richard Crude, who share vice-president duties; Victor J. Kemper, ...

ASC CLOSE-UP

Aug 01, 2008; Bartley, John S ... When you were a child, what film made the strongest impression on you? Many films made a great impression on me when I was young. National Velvet(1944) and The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957) were two of many favorites. Which cinematographers, past or present do you most ...