Nov 25, 2013
10 min
Full-HD

Making a Scene (2013)

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.

Category

Fantasy

Country

United States of America

Companies

The New York Times

Cate Blanchett

Woman

Bradley Cooper

Man

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Man

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Woman

Greta Gerwig

Woman

Oscar Isaac

Man

Michael B. Jordan

Man

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Woman

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