Topic: Film

Floria Sigismondi
The Backstory

Through the Director’s Eyes: On Set with David Bowie and Tilda Swinton

LightBox goes behind the scenes of David Bowie’s latest music video, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), directed by the acclaimed Floria Sigismondi and starring Tilda Swinton.

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Closeup

Pictures of the Week: September 14 – 21

From continued anti-American protests around the world and the Pope’s visit to Lebanon to the honoring of Aung San Suu Kyi in the U.S. and the Duchess of Cambridge’s tour of the South Pacific, TIME presents the best images of the week.

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Ross McDonnell
Out There

Remember Me, My Ghost: Documenting Ireland’s Notorious Ballymun Neighborhood

Ross McDonnell explains how his new film ‘Remember Me, My Ghost’ came out of his experience photographing Ireland’s Ballymun housing projects.

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Stefano de Luigi—VII
Out There

Stefano de Luigi Photographs the Cinema of Iran

If anything belies the demagogic sheen of Iran’s image in the West, it is the irrepressible sophistication and class of Iranian cinema.

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© 2009 James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey.
Toolbox

Chasing Ice: Could Time-Lapse Photography Save the Planet?

A new film shows how the Extreme Ice Survey, led by photographer James Balog, documents climate change.

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© Estate of Grey Villet
Out There

The Loving Story: Loving v. Virginia and the Photographs of Grey Villet

It’s not unusual for a documentary film to rely on photographs to illustrate history, but The Loving Story—using vintage photographs taken by Grey Villet for LIFE magazine—demonstrates a unique way of doing so.

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John Topham
Out There

Two Photographers’ Mission to Retrace a Lost Liberia

When Canadian brothers Jeff and Andrew Topham returned to the war torn West African country of their childhood to re-shoot their father’s photos for a documentary, they found a nation whose photographic memory had been destroyed by war.

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Paul Graham
Out There

Paul Graham: Films

Paul Graham’s latest book Films is a homage to the medium of film.

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Bill Cunningham trendspotting in the streets of New York.
Out There

Bill Cunningham: The Original Street Fashion Photographer

Richard Press’s documentary film Bill Cunningham New York is a charming portrait of the idiosyncratic photographer’s pursuit of fashion, elegance and humanity on the streets of New York.

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