Hello y’all. Welcome (again) to High of the Line, IndieWire’s e-newsletter about all issues associated to movie and TV craft! Like the numerous different high quality IndieWire newsletters to which you’ll be able to select to subscribe, this 12 months High of the Line is getting a little bit of a refresh. It’s going from a set of current article hyperlinks to one thing that’s somewhat extra substacky — besides not on Substack, as a result of Stubstack is gross.
Representing the broader IndieWire workforce’s pursuits in music, cinematography, VFX, costumes, and extra will probably be me, Craft Editor Sarah Shachat. I’m thrilled to tackle probably the most rewarding problem in my 4 years at IndieWire since making an attempt to clarify to the Gen Xers on employees that among the finest manufacturing design and make-up work proper now’s taking place on Dropout.television (in the event you loved “The Chair Firm” and also you’re not excited for the return of “Very Essential Individuals,” then I’m sorry, you’re solely residing half a life.)
So on this inaugural version, it’s value laying out what the brand new model of High of the Line will and gained’t be. It’s not going to be awards odds — we now have a complete different e-newsletter for that, and I’ve a complete historical past of coming final in fantasy leagues. None of us could be served by my making an attempt to parse minute shifts within the race post-Bake Off from my sit-stand desk in New York.
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High of the Line will, in fact, rejoice work that’s going up for Guilds and the Oscars (and ultimately Emmys) and so forth. I’ll attempt to select what’s attention-grabbing about among the sturdy contenders — now that the “Hamnet” rating is out on Apple Music, I’m reminded how Max Richter shouldn’t be allowed to maintain getting away with this. However I additionally will attempt to take a look at among the crafts that aren’t fairly as in dialog — it’s type of wild how a lot of “Sinners” depends upon its twin VFX that may possibly be utterly ignored for not being, , Na’vi.
What I hope to do with that is occupy an area that’s adjoining to the traditional craft writing we do at IndieWire, with somewhat bit extra reflection on traits past particular tasks, and with, I’ve been instructed, a most of 1 Crew Tales meme per subject. I make no guarantees, apart from to attempt to be as particular as I could be when referring to sorts of machine studying software program and particular person use circumstances, as an alternative of simply saying “AI” just like the LLM plagiarism machines are each type of generative machine studying know-how that there’s.
As I stored saying to my household over Thanksgiving, who don’t work in media and wished to know if I preferred “Depraved: For Good,” the reality is that each movie that will get made is a miracle. And they’re so miraculous largely due to the iceberg-sized quantity of labor by every crew that rests just under the floor of the proverbial ocean. I hope this article supplies a pleasant, fast dip under the water.
Costume Design Is Good, Really
During the last week, the water cooler, a minimum of in my nook of Instagram, has been about agreeing that Luca Guadagnino stated one thing risible about costume designers, and, yep, he certain did. Generally administrators are dummies, however this has been true for all of cinema and a minimum of now there may be one reel on the market the place it’s really therapeutic to learn the feedback. I extremely suggest doing that, and not denigrating costume designers and the entire philosophy of costume design, jeez louise.
However actually, one paragraph is greater than that remark deserves. Extra of my mind energy has been taken up by watching the “Kpop Demon Hunters” efficiency on the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the report from my brother that just about all of the trick-or-treaters they noticed at Halloween have been dressed up as stated Kpop Demon Hunters. The songs whip, in fact; I’ve heard “Golden” in a retirement house, y’all. However the extra endurance the movie has, the extra I’m struck by the enhancing and particularly the sound work that helps them. Generally animated movies do break via in different classes; I don’t know if it’ll occur for Netflix’s animated reply to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” however a minimum of there will probably be no hazard of the movie going unseen.
There will probably be a traditional e-newsletter focus the subsequent time — most likely on “Pluribus,” as a result of “Pluribus” is getting actually enjoyable, and winter TV ought to get some love, too. See you then!
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