There are plenty of gorgeous movies up for the Best Picture nomination for the 2020 Academy Awards, but few are as technically astounding as 1917. The film follows young World War I soldiers, Lance ...
"1917," the Oscar favorite for sound editing and mixing, utilized new techniques and equipment to achieve an innovative soundscape. In planning the sound design for “1917,” supervising sound editor ...
During the epic final scene of 1917, actor George MacKay swerved through 500 extras. He unsuccessfully avoided a collision. The final scenes in arguably one of the best World War I movies took ...
Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns and actor George MacKay were integral parts of Sam Mendes' uniquely collaborative cinematic adventure. After directing back-to-back Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre, ...
The war movie is a Hollywood staple, so much so that there might not be much new to say. Yet like “Dunkirk” a few years back, director Sam Mendes has found a way to breathe life into the genre with a ...
THR review: Sam Mendes' ambitious World War I film '1917' presents the harrowing odyssey of two British soldiers in one seemingly continuous shot. By Todd McCarthy The only problem with 1917 is the ...
5th Update Monday: Quick update to let you know that Paramount’s Like a Boss beat Warner Bros.’ Just Mercy for 4th place after both called the spot yesterday. Actuals showed the Paramount comedy with ...
World War I was a low-tech / high-tech conflict, "advancing" over four grinding years from horse-drawn carts and bayonets to slaughter via airplane, tank, machine gun, and poison gas. Sam Mendes's ...
Director Sam Mendes based the plot of 1917 on a World War I story told to him long ago by a veteran of the trenches — his Trinidadian novelist grandfather Alfred Mendes, who in 1917 was a Lance ...
The epic 1917 follows two soldiers on a mission to save 1,600; with “astonishing” cinematography and direction, Caryn James writes “it’s one of the most stirring films of the year”. The baby-faced ...
The long take has a, ahem, long history in cinema. Some of the most celebrated long takes -- a continuous shot that goes uninterrupted and without edits -- can be seen in films like Stanley Kubrick’s ...