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Director Duncan Jones on Low-Budget Moon

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT

The visually dazzling film, whose production design may be its most impressive aspect, pays homage to a host of science fiction precursors, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, but carries an emotional charge all its own. F&V talked to Jones about the challenges of creating images of the lunar surface in a British soundstage and directing an actor to fight himself....

Director Alex Rivera on Third-World SF

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 0:00:00 EDT

With Sleep Dealer, director Alex Rivera re-imagines the science fiction film from a distinctly Latin American perspective. Set in Mexico, it conjures up a gritty future in which menial labor is conducted via virtual reality and memories can be sold on-line. Using both Super-16 and HD video, Rivera creates an extremely promising debut, which uses science fiction to speak about the dilemmas and possibilities facing the Third World....

Director Henry Selick on Coraline

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 0:00:00 EST

We shot the film digitally — the first time for me. There are many reasons to do this but the best for me was the workflow—to be able to shoot a test and see it immediately rather than waiting for dailies. It made the whole process more fluid. I could do dailies four times a day and at the end, all day. It was liberating for that flow of imagery to have been enhanced so much by shooting digitally....

Ari Folman Finds Freedom in Animation

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST

Ari Folman embraces the ambiguity of animation, mixing past and present, memory and dreams. Waltz With Bashir uses relatively conventional interview footage much of the time, but its flashbacks would be impossible to stage without extensive recreations. While such an approach risks aestheticizing violence, Folman avoids this pitfall. His film’s final five minutes are among recent cinema’s most devastating....

Rachel Getting Mixed, Documentary Style

Thu, 4 Dec 2008 0:00:00 EST

Music mixer Tony Volante had to create cinematic sound that would maintain the integrity of documentary-style production audio tracks....