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.