Millimeter March 2002Editor's NotesWith The BrethrenCynthia Wisehart, Editor The first word on the ASC coat of arms is It comes before even before It's hard to imagine a more fitting spectacle of loyalty than the annual ASC awards,... FeaturesSounds Like Oscar!By Blair Jackson
February 12 was a very good day for the Pearl Harbor sound team. On that day, it nabbed richly deserved Academy Award nominations in the two sound categories...... VisFXA Sense of Placeby Kristinha McCort Building Effects for Ararat Atom Egoyan's latest film, Ararat, is not what one would consider an effects-intensive movie. But, according to Egoyan and... Beyond the Bake-OffMichael Goldman How did the films nominated for the Visual Effects Oscar earn that honor? Millimeter asks the experts to explain how the famous effects' "Bake-Off" works. ... Experimenting on NashMichael Goldman Ron Howard's controversial take on the life of famed mathematician/schizophrenic John Nash in A Beautiful Mind is not the only current film interpretation of Nash's story. A far more unorthodox approach can be found in the 11-minute, experimental documentary, 2+2, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. ...Step by StepA Beautiful Mindby Ellen Wolff Filmmakers have long used wordless images to represent the passage of time. Think of all those shots of calendar pages turning and ashtrays filling up... ClipsSilicon SurgeryMichael Goldman According to James Cooper, senior Inferno artist at Topix, Toronto, the new video for Barenaked Ladies amounted to “silicon surgery—digital lip and skin... Virtual Autos on ParadeMichael Goldman For decades, advertising agencies representing automobile manufacturers have physically photographed yearly car product lines for advertising use across... Imaginary ArchitectureEllen Wolff Don’t be fooled by the film’s title—this is no blood-dripping monster movie, no superhero saga. The Mothman Prophecies is a psychological thriller from... Frenetic MotionMichael Goldman A new :30 promoting Samsung cell phones shows a phone user standing out from a robotic crowd of futuristic businessmen moving at high speeds around an... Hot SpotsHot Spotsby Trevor Boyer A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter.... Cool GraphicsFields and Framesfields & framesDan Ochiva No one can claim innovation is slowing down, tough economic times or not. Foveon (www.foveon.com) announced solid-state image sensors that, unlike CCDs,... HotwareReview3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110by S. D. Katz In past years, comparing graphics cards was a hotly contested competition with lots of jockeying for first-place honors among several card vendors. Even... Fade to BlackFade to Black - Anthony EdwardsDarroch Greer The best advice I ever got from a director was from John Huston, who said, the most important thing for you to do is to be a really good audience. You're... |
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