
Making a Scene (2013)
Fantasy
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.
Director: Janusz Kamiński
Writers: Evan Goldberg, Spike Jonze, Nicole Holofcener, Danny Strong, Lake Bell, Seth Rogen, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, J.C. Chandor, Jeff Nichols, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Richard Linklater
The Cast

Cate Blanchett
Woman

Bradley Cooper
Man

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Man

Adèle Exarchopoulos
Woman

Greta Gerwig
Woman

Oscar Isaac
Man

Michael B. Jordan
Man

Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Woman

Robert Redford
Man

Forest Whitaker
Man

Oprah Winfrey
Woman
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