Meeting, Greeting, Roundtables, Matchmaking

— “You don’t want to have a guy fall in front of a tank because you’d make a tortilla” - cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on Children of Men. Variety profiles the men and women behind the cameras from many of the year’s best - Little Children, The Departed, Volver, The Last King of Scotland, United 93 (9 more, listed here at bottom), talking directors notes, logistics, and aesthetic choices.

— Hollywood Reporter Roundtable One - Filmmakers Emilio Estevez, David Lynch, Guillermo del Toro, Little Miss Sunshine’s Dayton and Faris, and Nancy Meyers (The Holiday). Roundtable Two - Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton and Forest Whitaker. (via GreenCine)

— Goldenfiddle provides scans from Parker Posey interview/photo-shoot with Bust Magazine, summarily pans For Your Consideration, omits a much lower-point for Miss Posey in 2006 - making love to an ex-Taxi star (location: lagoon pool), in the name of The OH in Ohio.

— George Clooney to join Robert De Niro for remake of French crime drama 36.

tedzee | Permalink | January 4 2007 | Comments (View)