Making a Scene (2013)

11/25/2013 (US) • 10m

Fantasy

The year's best big-screen performers in 11 original (very) short films.

Overview

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

new york times

vignette

short film

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