Making a Scene

Making a Scene

10 mins | Fantasy | Nov. 25, 2013

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.

Making a Scene

10 mins | Fantasy | Nov. 25, 2013

Making a Scene
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers The New York Times
Original title Making a Scene
Directors Janusz Kamiński
Writers J.C. Chandor, Jeff Nichols, Lake Bell, Nicole Holofcener, Evan Goldberg, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Danny Strong, Seth Rogen, Spike Jonze, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater