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- Feb 23, 202633 min
Realizing Guillermo del Toro’s Dream: Inside the Production Design of ‘Frankenstein’
Guillermo del Toro had been waiting almost all his life to make Frankenstein. “He’s wanted to make this movie since he was a little boy,” production designer Tamara Deverell tells Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen on the latest episode of Art & Crafts. For del Toro, the story of Frankenstein is foundational. “It’s in all my movies,” the Oscar-winning director behind The Shape of Water and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio said in an interview last year. He’s talked openly about how the film’s de facto father-son relationship between Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) and the creature he creates (Oscar nominee Jacob Elordi) was influenced by the relationship del Toro had with his father. “I’m finding out things about his process that I didn’t know, that I maybe I didn’t need to know,” Deverell says about her journey with the project, which first debuted at the Venice Film Festival in August and is now an Oscar nominee for best picture, as well as production design for Deverell and set decorator Shane Vieau, among nine overall nominations. “This movie is such a personal thing for him, and I’m interested to see what he’s going to do next. Because Frankenstein is a tough act to follow.”
- Jan 12, 202632 min
Art & Crafts: Inside the Making of 'Wicked: For Good'
Oscar-winning costume designer Paul Tazewell (Wicked), Oscar-winning hair and makeup designer Frances Hannon (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and casting director Bernard Telsey tell Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen about the long journey to bringing Wicked: For Good to the screen in all its handmade and bespoke glory. This conversation is sponsored by Universal Pictures.
- Dec 5, 202528 min
Art & Crafts: Inside the Making of 'The Testament of Ann Lee'
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mona Fastvold (The Brutalist), cinematographer William Rexer and production designer Samuel Bader tell Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen about how they stretched the small budget for The Testament of Ann Lee to great lengths. This conversation is sponsored by Searchlight Pictures.
- Dec 1, 202543 min
Art & Crafts: 'Alien: Earth' Took the Franchise to Places It Had Never Been
Cinematographer, director and executive producer Dana Gonzales and visual effects supervisor Jonathan Rothbart reveal how they expanded the Alien universe with the FX series Alien: Earth — and how the original film by Ridley Scott helped guide the way. This conversation, hosted by Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen, is sponsored by FX.
- Nov 17, 202537 min
Art & Crafts: Inside the Making of ‘The Lowdown’
Production designer Brandon Tonner-Connolly and cinematographer Mark Schwartzbard discuss their influences for the new FX series The Lowdown, created by Reservation Dogs' Sterlin Harjo — from '70s New Hollywood noir to the climate of Tulsa, Okla. This conversation, hosted by Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen, is sponsored by FX.
- Aug 25, 202536 min
Art & Crafts: Making of ‘Andor’ Season 2
When Dan Gilroy sat down with his brother, Andor creator Tony Gilroy, and fellow writers Tom Bissell and Beau Willimon, to work on the Emmy-nominated show’s second and final season, he knew they had a tall task ahead. “On a lot of shows, climax means spectacle, and throwing a lot of money on the screen and looking for things to break and crash,” Dan Gilroy says to Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen on the latest episode of the Art & Crafts podcast. “That was not our climax. Our climax is a moral, character-driven climax, and in many ways, it’s driven by Rogue One [the Star Wars prequel movie that introduced audiences to the Andor title character, played by Diego Luna]. So the audience knows what’s going to happen to these people at the end, when this is all said and done. Most of them are going to die, which is a very unusual starting place. However, it gives you tremendous power as you’re barreling toward your climax.” Listen to Gilroy, director Janus Metz and costume designer Michael Wilkinson discuss their Emmy-nominated work in the episode, sponsored by Disney+.
- Aug 18, 202517 min
Art & Crafts: How ‘The Bear’ Sound Team Creates Quiet and Chaos
The sound design of the FX comedy series The Bear is often so noisy — heated conversations, shattered plates, clanging pots and pans — that when the Emmy Award-winning show goes quiet, it can feel like a primal scream. Never had the power of silence been more apparent on the series than in the season 3 episode “Doors,” which opens at a funeral service for the mother of pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce). “It was a real gift that they gave us that nice quiet moment before devolving into even more chaos of this episode,” The Bear supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Steve “Major” Giammaria, MPSE, tells Ankler Media deputy editor Christopher Rosen during the latest episode of Art & Crafts, sponsored by FX.
- Aug 15, 202515 min
Art & Crafts: Baby Noises & Dope Beats: How TV’s Top Sound Editors Bring the Noise
The Netflix animated series Love, Death + Robots has featured several innovative and unexpected episodes during its four-season run, but perhaps none as unique as “400 Boys,” where an army of gigantic babies threatens to end the world. “There’s a lot of sound design that we can play around with for something like that,” says supervising sound editor Brad North, MPSE, about the conceit of the episode. On the latest edition of The Ankler’s Art & Crafts podcast, North and fellow Emmy nominee Eliot Connors (Arcane) discuss the their acclaimed work with moderator Alexandra Fehrman, CAS. This episode, sponosred by Netflix, was recorded at the American Society of Cinematographers’ Clubhouse in Los Angeles on Aug. 7.
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