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Art & Crafts from The Ankler

Art & Crafts from The Ankler is dedicated to bringing audiences behind the scenes to examine the careers and contributions of the talented artisans who create and craft the movies and TV series that we love.

  1. DEC 6

    Art & Crafts LIVE: Recreating WWII London With ‘Blitz’

    In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, director Patricia Riggen speaks with four of auteur Steve McQueen’s collaborators on his World War II drama Blitz for Apple Original Films: production designer Adam Stockhausen, editor Peter Sciberras, and supervising sound editors James Harrison and Paul Cotterell. The film recreates events from Germany’s devastating bombardment of London in 1940-41, while also following a mother and son trying to find each other amid the mayhem. “We have to keep retelling these stories, because we keep making the same mistakes,” Harrison says. “We have to keep reminding ourselves of the terror of the past.”

    22 min

  2. DEC 4

    Art & Crafts LIVE: The Phantasmagoria of ‘Emilia Pérez’

    In this episode recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Ruscio, ACE, speaks with three of the creators behind director Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez: composers/songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille and editor Juliette Welfling. Netflix’s spectacular Spanish-language musical drama, which centers on a Mexican drug kingpin who transitions to live as a woman, is a genre-bending “phantasmagoria,” as Camille puts it. Welfling, a longtime Audiard collaborator, “learned that he was even more crazy than I thought,” she says. “Please, Jacques, stay crazy!”

    14 min

  3. NOV 22

    Art & Crafts LIVE: Making Movie Magic With 'Wicked’'

    In the second of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Rob Legato, ASC, speaks with four of the talents behind Wicked, Universal Pictures’ epic musical adventure. Cinematographer Alice Brooks, ASC, editor Myron Kerstein, VFX supervisor Pablo Helman and supervising sound editor John Marquis discuss how they collaborated with director Jon Chu to create an eye-popping spectacle that also conveys the intense bond between Ariana Grande’s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. The goal, Brooks says, was to tell “the most beautiful love story ever told between these two women, these two best friends.”

    21 min

  4. NOV 20

    Art & Crafts LIVE: Flights of Imagination in 'The Wild Robot'

    In the first of four episodes recorded live on November 12 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Michael Goi, ASC, leads a conversation with three of the creators behind The Wild Robot, the $300 million global blockbuster from DreamWorks Animation and Universal Pictures. Composer Kris Bowers, visual effects supervisor Jeff Budsberg, and supervising sound editor Leff Lefferts reveal how they conveyed the evolution of Roz — the film's titular robot — as she is "stepping beyond her programming and becoming more human," Bowers explains. Adds Lefferts, "We’re telling a lot of emotion and a lot of story."

    16 min

  5. AUG 15

    Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Sound Editing

    In the last of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Joel D. Catalan, CAS — a sound re-recording mixer who was Emmy-nominated for the NatGeo series Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey — sits down with two of 2024’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding sound editing for a comedy or drama series (one hour): Brian J. Armstrong, MPSE, is nominated for FX’s period drama Shogun, and Tim Kimmel, MPSE, got nods for two Netflix shows: sci fi epic 3 Body Problem and animated adventure Avatar: The Last Airbender. The two sound supervisors reveal how they collaborate with showrunners to balance music, dialogue, action and strategic silence, frequently deploying what Armstrong calls “addition by subtraction.”

    28 min

  6. AUG 13

    Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Costume Design

    In the third of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Mona May — the costume designer behind iconic films including Clueless and The Wedding Singer — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in the category of outstanding period costumes for a limited or anthology series or movie: Lou Eyrich is nominated for her work on FX’s Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, and Safowa Bright Bitzelberger got the nod for Netflix’s Griselda. Eyrich shares how she recreated New York high-society looks from the 1950s to the ’80s, while Bitzelberger recalls conjuring the fashion aesthetic for a much grittier milieu during some of those same years: the Miami drug underworld.

    25 min

  7. AUG 8

    Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Production Design

    In the second of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Jeannine Oppewall — a four-time Oscar nominee for art direction on films including L.A. Confidential and The Good Shepherd — sits down with two of this year’s Emmy contenders in production design: Glenda Rovello is nominated for her work on Frasier, from Paramount+ and CBS Studios, and Gianna Costa got the nod for the MTV reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Costa describes the “seat-of-your-pants thinking” that powers a fast-moving competition show, and Rovello recalls how the innovative set design of the original Frasier informed her decisions on the reboot. They also share how playing with color and making room for movement help set the stage for great TV storytelling.

    25 min

  8. AUG 6

    Art & Crafts LIVE: The Nominees – Outstanding Cinematography

    In the first of four special episodes recorded live on August 1 at the American Society of Cinematographers Clubhouse in Los Angeles, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker (Netflix’s One Piece) sits down with three of this year’s Emmy-nominated directors of photography. Dana Gonzales got the nod for FX’s Fargo; Richard Rutkowski for Apple TV+’s Sugar; and Gary Baum for Frasier from Paramount+ and CBS Studios. These three veterans share their career paths, creative inspirations, aesthetic hacks and the bond they share with directors. “You want to meet people that you could stay and make films with for the rest of your life,” says Gonzales. “Whatever you can do to create that kind of energy and synergy and shorthand, you're going to excel, and that's the dream.”

    41 min
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