Craft | Technology, Sound and Set Design
MaXXXine
Interview
“MaXXXine,” “Pearl,” and “X” cinematographer Eliot Rockett breaks down the trilogy's cinematic inspirations and how he translated them into films that look like they were created in different eras.
'32 Sounds' 'In the Air Tonight'
Sounding Off
Mark Mangini tells IndieWire about the immersive design of "32 Sounds," currently streaming on The Criterion Channel.
FANCY DANCE, from left: Isabel Deroy-Olson, Lily Gladstone, 2023. © AppleTV+  / Courtesy Everett Collection
Buttoned Up
Costume designer Amy Higdon tells IndieWire about how she and her team of indigenous women used low-key costumes to tell a sharply revealing story.
Lupita Nyong’o as Samira in 'A Quiet Place: Day One' from Paramount Pictures.
Sounding Off
The "Day One" sound team tells IndieWire how they crafted the tense soundscape of the prequel, from alien calls to a flooded subway.
A Family Affair. (L-R) Nicole Kidman as Brooke Harwood, Joey King as Zara Ford and Zac Efron as Chris Cole in A Family Affair. Cr. Tina Rowden/Netflix © 2024
Off the Rack
No actual shahtoosh shirts were harmed in the making of this Netflix rom-com.
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - CHAPTER 1, from left: Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Costner, 2024. © Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection
Western Garb
Costume designer Lisa Lovass tells IndieWire about the demands of costuming an epic period Western trilogy.
DADDIO, from left: Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn, 2023. © Sony Pictures Classics / Courtesy Everett Collection
Interview
Director Christy Hall tells IndieWire how she utilized LED technology to create a constant sense of exterior movement in her dynamic two-hander.
Stunt coordinator Freddie Poole during the production of THE BIKERIDERS, a Focus Features release. Credit: Kyle Kaplan/Focus Features © 2024 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Stunt coordinator Freddie Poole tells IndieWire about working with Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and the biker gangs of Jeff Nichols' drama.
'Kinds of Kindness,' Searchlight Pictures
Stranger Things
Production designer Anthony Gasparro turned New Orleans into a nameless city with an eccentric vibe for Yorgos Lanthimos' twisted new movie.
Susanna Fogel, Dawn Porter, and Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio attend Morning Coffee
Nantucket Film Festival
Documentarians Dawn Porter and Jeff Zimbalist tell IndieWire some of the things they've found useful for visual storytelling, regardless of whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
'Please Please Please' music video
I Know I Have Good Taste
And no, the music at the end of the video is not from a third "Short 'n' Sweet" song.
'KINDS OF KINDNESS,' Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, 2024. © Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection
Cutting Remarks
Editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis tells IndieWire about cutting the anthology as alternate realities, as well as a deleted scene about Emma Stone eating her own liver in "R.M.F. Is Flying."
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