The Envelope: Director | Cinematographer

In the annals of true-life weird tales, few are stranger than the saga of Margaret and Walter Keane.

For the first time in a long time, I wanted to write a story without knowing how it was going to end.

“They’ll never let us do this.”

In “A Most Violent Year,” Oscar Isaac plays Abel Morales, a New York heating-oil magnate who owns a lavish new home and a port-side storage facility — on paper, anyway.

Two-time Sundance cinematography award winner Bradford Young has two high-profile year-end releases this year, putting him squarely in the Oscar season mix.

Director Ava DuVernay is finalizing the sound mix on the last few minutes of “Selma” on the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, roughly a month before the movie’s Christmas Day opening.

For every director, there is a key to his or her movie.

Italian costume designer Milena Canonero is not new to filmmaker Wes Andersen’s quirky universe.

Often a single scene in a film can sum up the whole of the story in a far more emotional way than the most eloquent dialogue.