James Cameron supercharges 3-D Apr 12, 2008
Day for night, dry for wet, Vancouver for New York, potato shavings for snow. The building is a thin-walled set, the sunlight is a xenon, and the traffic noise is supplied by the sound designers. (Variety)
Be Kind Rewind Mar 3, 2008
How do you shoot day for night with an amateur camera. (Use negative and tape dark photocopies of your face on your head. (Yale Herald, CT)
Best of the best of Oscar Feb 16, 2008
The runners-up: "The Bicycle Thief" (1948), "Fanny nder" (1982), "Day for Night" (1973) and "Life Is Beautiful" (1997). Best best cinematography. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Writers' strike was unseen star of the Golden Globes Jan 14, 2008
Day for night is what filmmakers call the technique for shooting night scenes in daylight. "Today" for night was the technique NBC used to get through a Golden Globes ceremony that was canceled by the writers' strike. (International Herald Tribune)
What's on your top 10 movies list? Jun 30, 2007
NPR: A Totally Subjective Top 10 Movies List. A Totally Subjective Top 10 Movies List. (NPR)
Down the rabbit hole Apr 18, 2007
They play adulterous lovers whose real lives parallel their characters lives a hoary clich; (see Day for Night, The French Lieutenant s Woman, or Vanya on 42nd Street) that Lynch manipulates and mocks. During rehearsal, the two actors learn that their production is actually the remake of a film that was never completed, on account of the fact that its two leads were murdered. (San Antonio Current, TX)
'Avenue' strolls prettily through very little Mar 2, 2007
(Dupontel holds up the male end of the bargain, and the single-named Dani , from "Day for Night," is the film's designated jolie-laid as a stage manager). Aside from pretty people behaving cutely, though, there's just not much here, and even devoted Francophiles may nod into their cafe cr mes. (Boston Globe)
Vulnerability uncloaked in 'Le Petit ... (Kelly Jane Torrance) Feb 9, 2007
Miss Baye ("Day for Night") garnered a Cesar Award, the French Oscar, for her quietly understated performance, which she gives mostly through her face. Director Xavier Beauvois ("Nord") has a small part in the film as a right-wing cop, but his voice is all over this deeply felt film. (Washington Times, DC)
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Jan 26, 2007
"I loved it. (Director) Michael Winterbottom makes no two movies the same way. They kind of shot this one from the hip the two comedians who play the leads, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, were really improvising." The novel the movie is named for is basically unfilmable, Mr. Lockwood says, "so you make a movie about the attempt to make a movie. More than anything, it reminded me of 'Day for Night,' which was, I think, the best movie ever made about movie-making." The two French-language films, Luc... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Oscar retains language barrier (Kelly Jane Torrance) Jan 19, 2007
That's one of the controversial rules surrounding the award that's been given to "8;" and "Day for Night" but not "Ran" or "Europa, Europa." Those omissions aren't the academy's fault, however. Their respective countries did not submit them for Oscar consideration. (Washington Times)
