...star performance yet - fitting because "Broken Embraces" is in many ways a movie about movies - with beautiful camera work from Rodrigo Prieto and a sensuous score by Alberto Iglesias. R for sexual content, language and some drug material.

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</p><p>"Broken Embraces" weaves Almodovar's spell just as assuredly as those films (thanks partially to the beautiful camera work of Rodrigo Prieto and the sensuous score by Alberto Iglesias ), but the payoff is less. It comes a little too...

In this article: Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Rita Hayworth, Peeping Tom, Roberto Rossellini, Talk to Her, and Sony Pictures Classics

...Genius) and a fictionalized biography ( What is the What ), adapted the 10 sentences of Sendak's original work into the screenplay; and Lance Acord , the mood lighting-proficient cameraman who has worked almost exclusively for Jonze and Sofia...

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... he 'd have at least earned consideration among the greats like Gregg Toland and Billy Bitzer and his Oscar -winning contemporaries Conrad Hall and Haskell Wexler." MOVIELINE • Anne Thompson sat down for a compelling interview with " A Serious...

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...news and reviews from Peter Travers on the Travers Take Well , I?ll never tell. What I will conjecture is that Broken Embraces, lyrically shot by Rodrigo Prieto , represents Almodovar?s broken love affair with film itself... Rating: 3.5 Stars

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Dean Semler , A.C.S., A.S.C. (born 1943) is an Academy Award -winning Australian cinematographer. Over his career, he has worked as a cinematographer, camera operator, director, second unit director, and assistant director. Semler was born...

In this article: Dean Semler, Kevin Costner, Apocalypto, Academy Award, Dances with Wolves, Mad Max 2, Bodyline, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

...remembers. So, in post-production, the mountains that had actually loomed on the horizon were digitally erased. Talking Pictures Roger Deakins sat down with NPR 's Melissa Block for an interview at his Santa Monica home. As twilight...

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Bruno Delbonnel (born 1957) is a two time Academy Award -nominated and multiple award-winning French cinematographer . Delbonnel was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France and graduated in 1978 from the ESEC ( Paris , Ile-de-France ).

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...happen next. These scenes, lasting 20 minutes or so, are achingly intimate and tender. Mr. Jonze , working with his regular cinematographer, Lance Acord , brings you close into Max 's world as he builds an igloo in the street, starts a snowball...

In this article: Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, Dog, Carter Burwell, Lance Acord, and Dave Eggers

...to overestimate how blase some kids have become). For the most part, however, " Where the Wild Things Are " is suffused with the glow of Lance Acord's cinematography, and with the brightness of Casey Storm 's costumes, K.K. Barrett 's...

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...growing in the ground, even if they're pocked with CGI holes where the wild things have swiped them. Jonze 's regular cinematographer, Lance Acord , shoots fantasy with the simplicity of a home movie, with occasional shakes and wobbles and...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O'Hara, and Self-consciousness

...was the first time he was exposed to acting and dramatic material. After that experience, Pfister enrolled at AFI . During his second year, he was nominated for an Academy Award in the short subject category for a film about a man caught up...

In this article: Wally Pfister, Robert Altman, Academy Award, Insomnia, and Phedon Papamichael

Their fates are intertwined. Precisely how remains to be seen, but keep your eye on the fiery metaphors. Robert Elswit and John Toll's cinematography is fittingly broad and spare, and Craig Wood's trim editing nips between scenes...

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That said, the picture is gorgeous to look at. Its two Oscar -winning cinematographers, Robert Elswit (" There Will Be Blood ") and John Toll (" Braveheart "), the first shooting in New Mexico , the other in Oregon , have created majestic...

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Md. cinematographer proves comic images can look good September 4, 2009 Tim Suhrstedt , born and bred in Catonsville, has the rare distinction of having shot two prominent pictures opening nationally the same day. " All About Steve " and...

In this article: Tim Suhrstedt, Extract, All About Steve, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Mike Judge, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Office Space, Little Miss Sunshine, and Hollywood

...since his first foray into blockbuster filmmaking. Not only has he made the film look gorgeous (thank Amelie cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel for the moody, atmospheric visuals), but he also now has a much surer grip on the special...

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The original's George Miller directs with breakneck verve - the super-tanker finale is not to be missed - while cinematographer Dean Semler shows why a decade later he would go on to win an Oscar for Dances With Wolves. Cradle 2 the...

In this article: David Spade, Danny Ocean, Oliver Stone, Michael Pena, Jessica Biel, Nicolas Cage, George Miller, Mel Gibson, and Kill Bill

...Americans withstand relentless fire and attack. It's a bravura collaboration among Wallace , production designer Tom Sanders , cinematographer Dean Semler and editor William Hoy. The director's adroit, also, with the quieter anguish: Americans...

In this article: Hal Moore, We Were Soldiers, Randall Wallace, 7th Cavalry, Basil Plumley, Sam Elliott, Mel Gibson, Vietnam, and George Armstrong Custer