This week the director who gave audiences acclaimed, visual masterpieces “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Life of Pi,” is asking viewers to trust him as he pushes beyond the limits of our collective visual comfort […]
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It’s Not ALL Smoke and Mirrors: Going to the Movies With Visual Effects Pros
If you’ve ever wondered—perhaps even out loud, in the middle of a rather intense scene, in an exceedingly crowded movie theater—how the production crew pulled off a particularly visually stunning effect, now is your chance […]
Quick Take: What Jurassic World Got Wrong (and Right) About Dinosaurs
“Jurassic World,” the long-awaited sequel to the movie “Jurassic Park,” shattered box office records in its opening weekend. But has it had comparable gargantuan success in improving viewers’ knowledge about what dinosaurs were really like? […]
1920s Fashion in “The Great Gatsby”: Factual or Faulty?
As Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” hits theaters today, we’ll finally get to witness for ourselves the kaleidoscopic display of pearls, feathers and sequins that has been splashed across TV screens and magazines […]