Watch a Seductive Moment in ‘The Power of the Dog’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A cowboy’s tough veneer is cracked in this sequence from “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s period look at the American West.
The film (on Netflix) features Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a man who spends a lot of time on the family ranch he runs with his brother (Jesse Plemons), making life unpleasant for many of those around him, namely his brother’s new wife, Rose (Kirsten Dunst), and her son, Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
But in this scene, which comes late in the movie, Phil has been warming up to Peter, and invites the younger man to watch him work on the weaving of a rope. The sequence has elements of a seduction, though the intentions of each character may be more complex than what they seem in the moment.
In her narration, Campion said she loved the scene because “it’s the culmination of their relationship and so many different parts of the film that have been seeded right from the very beginning coming together.”
The dialogue here is spare. It’s more about glances, close-ups of rope work and the methodical way the two characters feel each other out. An eerie and heightened score by Jonny Greenwood add to the tension of the moment.
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January 20, 2022
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Hospital Greed Is Destroying Our Nurses. Here’s Why. | NYT Opinion
We’re entering our third year of Covid, and America’s nurses — who we celebrated as heroes during the early days of lockdown — are now leaving the bedside. The pandemic arrived with many people having great hope for reform on many fronts, including the nursing industry, but much of that optimism seems to have faded.
In the Opinion Video above, nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis: chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic. “I could no longer work in critical care under the conditions I was being forced to work under with poor staffing,” explains one nurse, “and that’s when I left.” They also tear down the common misconception that there’s a shortage of nurses. In fact, there are more qualified nurses today in America than ever before.
To keep patients safe and protect our health care workers, lawmakers could regulate nurse-patient ratios, which California put in place in 2004, with positive results. Similar legislation was proposed and defeated in Massachusetts several years ago (with help from a $25 million “no” campaign funded by the hospital lobby), but it is currently on the table in Illinois and Pennsylvania. These laws could save patient lives and create a more just work environment for a vulnerable generation of nurses, the ones we pledged to honor and protect at the start of the pandemic.
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January 20, 2022
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How the Landlord’s Worst Nightmare Could Protect Millions of New Yorkers | NYT Opinion
New Yorkers pay some of the highest rents in the nation — and are among the most vulnerable to being evicted with little notice. For years, the city’s real estate industry has spent a fortune exerting its influence in the State Capitol, leaving tenants largely at its mercy. Meanwhile the cost of living continues to rise and the number of rent-regulated apartments continues to dwindle.
Unlike in Oregon, California and New Jersey, landlords in most of New York State can jack up rents or refuse to renew a lease without cause. A little-known bill in Albany, known as Good Cause Eviction, could change the lives of millions of New Yorkers who are simply trying to get by. If passed, it would regulate rent increases and require landlords to renew leases for most tenants. In the video above, Jeff Seal, a comedian and housing advocate, takes an unconventional approach to educating New York tenants about a law that he believes will offer more security to millions of renters and working-class New Yorkers.
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January 12, 2022
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We’ve Lost Two Years to Covid. It’s Time to Grieve. | NYT Opinion
That’s right: We’re all two years older than when we first shut ourselves inside for lockdown. If we assumed the Covid pandemic would be brief, we were wrong. So if you feel like a withered old sloth these days wallowing around and yearning for your old life, that’s understandable. But there’s no use. It’s gone.
The stunning number of lives lost to Covid is its own appalling tragedy. But the video above is about a different kind of grief many of us are experiencing right now: the kind that comes with the gnawing realization that we really need to grieve the parts of our lives that have disappeared, even as they continue to slip away. As another year ends and Covid surges again, it’s clear nothing will change soon.
Forget resilience. Forget silver linings. Right now, it’s time to decide: How do we mourn everything we’ve lost? Once we do that, hopefully at some point, we can attempt something even harder: moving on.
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December 24, 2021
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Puberty Doesn’t Turn Us Into 'Aliens.' We’re Just Girls | Op-Docs
Adolescence isn’t easy. With puberty comes immense mental and physical change — and a self-consciousness about how you and your body are observed, treated and understood. Bronwen Parker-Rhodes's previous Op-Docs shed light on what can be isolating about childbirth and menopause. But what’s left unsaid begins even earlier, when girls are often made to feel strange and ashamed about their bodies.
In Bronwen's short film "Just Girls," above, girls ages 14 to 17 open up about the excitement, confusion and anxiety of going through puberty today. What they share speaks not just to their peers — or parents — but to all women whose coming-of-age experiences went unacknowledged. Bronwen hopes that rather than gloss over what happens during puberty, we can share it more openly.
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December 21, 2021
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How Bradley Cooper Deceives Cate Blanchett in ‘Nightmare Alley’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Bradley Cooper graduates from the sideshow to the big show in this scene from “Nightmare Alley.” But will the tricks up his sleeve be uncovered?
The sequence features Cooper as Stan, a carny who has moved to the city to perform his mentalism and clairvoyance act with his professional and romantic partner, Molly (Rooney Mara). Stan is blindfolded but able to guess the objects that belong to audience members.
One attendee has doubts about the act. Lilith (Cate Blanchett) believes that Stan and Molly are using verbal signals. Narrating the scene, the director Guillermo del Toro discusses how he sets up the cat-and-mouse game between Lilith and Stan, partly by the way he shines searchlights on them, and partly by how he positions them within the performance space.
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December 17, 2021
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How Joaquin Phoenix Handles Parenting in ‘C’mon C’mon’| Anatomy of a Scene
A radio journalist becomes a de facto parent in “C’mon C’mon,” the latest feature from the writer-director Mike Mills.
Joaquin Phoenix stars as Johnny, a single man who is tasked with caring for his nephew, Jesse (Woody Norman), while his sister deals with pressing family matters. The childless Johnny is plunged into handling some of the crises, large and small, that come with taking care of a boy. Like, in this scene, what to do when the kid has had too much sugar before bedtime and won’t go to sleep.
Mills combines two moments in the sequence: how Johnny handles the moment that night juxtaposed with him recalling the moment in a self-recorded confessional. The sequence includes some topics Jesse brings up that throws Johnny for a loop, like mentioning he heard his mother got an abortion.
In an interview, Mills said he wanted to peel back more layers to the relationship between these two as they got to know each other better. And he wanted to capture how to express deeper thoughts to a child.
“This thing that often happens to me as a parent,” he said, is “you’re trying to share something intense and compelling with the kid. And you just feel like you’ve failed. You just feel like you did not do a good job of showing up or articulating something. And actually, this young little person has judo-flipped you in like three different ways and you’re just sort of knocked out by the end.”
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December 03, 2021
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Tech Is a Dangerous Toy. How Do We Protect Our Kids? | NYT Opinion
We all know how difficult it can be to close our social media apps and walk away from our devices. Just one more scroll, we tell ourselves. Just one more peek at a link. And then, suddenly, we’re deep down the rabbit hole of yet another feed.
These apps are addictive by design. We know this. And we know full well who’s making a bundle off our weaknesses. (Howdy, Mark Zuckerberg!) But we still can’t help ourselves.
So, if we adults are seemingly powerless in the face of such digital temptation, where does that leave our kids?
In the Opinion Video above, children tell us what they know about how the internet works (not much) and how much they use it (a lot).
“I think I want to get off of this thing,” one young girl confesses, “but then I’m just, like, ‘No! More YouTube! More Instagram! More TikTok!’”
And while kids are experiencing this kind of dopamine rush, tech companies — in a drive to maximize engagement and, thus, profits — are collecting their data without their overt consent while also exposing them to adult content and corrosive peer judgment.
Online privacy regulations in the United States intended to protect young children are either woefully out-of-date or easily circumvented. But pending legislation introduced in May by Senators Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, would update those rules by banning targeted advertising aimed at children and raising the age of internet users whose data cannot be collected without their consent from 12 to 15, among other measures.
It’s time, we argue, for the government to modernize the nation’s internet privacy rules, and to do a far better job of safeguarding the internet’s youngest explorers from harm.
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November 30, 2021
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Remembering Stephen Sondheim | NYT News
In a never-before-seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.
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November 29, 2021
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Watch Dwayne Johnson Chase Ryan Reynolds in ‘Red Notice’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A chase scene through a museum allowed the filmmakers behind “Red Notice” to try out some fun new technology.
This sequence involves the F.B.I. profiler John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) getting into a foot chase with the art thief Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds). The chase involves some creative use of scaffolding and some inventive reuse of locations.
In this video, the writer and director Rawson Marshall Thurber discusses how he and his crew worked through some of the limitations involved in shooting the film during the pandemic. They couldn’t leave Atlanta, their home base for the production, and had to build a museum set on a soundstage there.
“Ryan and Dwayne chase each other through hallways, and oftentimes, what we would do is have them run through one hallway,” Thurber said, “and then overnight we would change it to look like a different hallway and they would run back the other way.”
The filmmakers also employed a small camera called the Komodo, from Red Digital. That camera was attached to a race drone, which could chase the actors through the sets.
“It got us some pretty great shots,” Thurber said.
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November 22, 2021
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Watch Kristen Stewart Embody Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A dinner with the royal family becomes a hallucinatory nightmare in this scene from “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana.
Diana is late to join a formal dinner and arrives in a somewhat agitated state. The scene plays without dialogue and is scored with string music from the composer Jonny Greenwood that grows ever more anxious as the dinner progresses.
Narrating the sequence, the director Pablo Larraín discusses some of his techniques for heightening the mood. He said that he had asked Stewart not to go onto the set until they were ready to shoot, so that when she enters, it would be her first time seeing the rest of the cast in place at the table.
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November 12, 2021
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JOBS FOR ALL! - How Is Work Working for You? | Op-Docs
Last year, during a pandemic that endangered and disrupted the global work force, Sweden’s public broadcaster Sveriges Television AB asked us, Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson, to make a film about work. We were given unfettered access to its visual archives, studying the way work has been portrayed and discussed in the modern age.
While making "JOBS FOR ALL!," we began to ask ourselves questions about how work works today. As you may have seen in our previous Op-Doc, “Ten Meter Tower” (https://youtu.be/5QMlIjSnt_E) we’re filmmakers interested in human nature, examining how and why we do what we do.
Here, we ask whether we work to live or live to work. Can we achieve true democracy without considering economic democracy? Can economic growth and value be achieved only by exploiting the work of many to create value for the few?
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November 10, 2021
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Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
It’s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it’s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society.
But what happens when Republicans aren’t standing in the way?
In many states — including California, New York and Illinois — Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. They write the laws. And as we explore in the video above, they often aren’t living up to their values.
In key respects, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states. It is in the blue states where affordable housing is often hardest to find, there are some of the most acute disparities in education funding and economic inequality is increasing most quickly.
Instead of asking, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Democrats need to spend more time pondering, “What’s the matter with California?”
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November 08, 2021
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Watch the 1960s Come Alive in ‘Last Night in Soho’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A song from Cilla Black and some flashing lights from a French bistro summon a little dreamy 1960s magic in this scene from “Last Night in Soho,” a thriller by the director Edgar Wright.
Thomasin McKenzie stars as a fashion student with ’60s obsessions who is, as Wright puts it, “supernaturally switched on.”
As she goes to sleep in her new flat, she has a dream that takes her back to her favorite decade, across a busy street in London and into a lavish nightclub. In this video, Wright explains the more-complicated-than-it-looks nature of timing flashing lights to the beats of a song, as well as other practical effects he used to create a mirror-image moment (actually building a “mirror” set and using twin actors on either side of it).
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November 05, 2021
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A Fatal Night in Kenosha: How the Rittenhouse Shootings Unfolded | Visual Investigations
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In the months leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial for killing two people, we analyzed hours of footage and interviewed key witnesses from that fatal night in Kenosha, Wis., to understand how the country’s polarization set the scene for violence.
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October 28, 2021
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Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians. But Not You. | NYT Opinion
Why are we asking a teenager how to solve the climate crisis?
“It’s absurd,” says Greta Thunberg, in an Opinion Video guest essay, that we are asking her to answer this question. Even more absurd, she argues, “is the fact that the climate and ecological emergency is being reduced to a problem that needs to be fixed.”
On Tuesday, evidence of what Thunberg calls the “political and economic failure” to address climate change was on full display when the United Nations released their annual report detailing “the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change.”
The report paints a bleak picture of missed targets and pledges that don’t go far enough.
In her video guest essay, Thunberg criticizes the presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens attempting to wield her image for their own political gain.
The animated video offers a unique window into the life of the 18-year-old Swedish activist.
“You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” Thunberg famously said to the United Nations.
Our video unpacks the experience of being transformed into an icon; the experience of being Greta Thunberg.
And Thunberg is correct — selfies and hashtags won’t save the planet.
And yet, she still believes humanity has not failed. In a rising ocean of troubling news, she has managed to hold on to hope.
Hope, not from politicians and leaders, but from ordinary people. The masses, she argues, have the power to create change.
As political powers head to Glasgow next week for COP26, Thunberg has a message to those of us not going to Scotland: “Hope comes from people, from democracy, from you.”
“It’s up to you and me,” she says. “No one else will do it for us.”
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October 26, 2021
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Watch Timothée Chalamet and Josh Brolin Spar in ‘Dune’ | Anatomy of a Scene
A combat lesson raises the stakes in this scene from the latest film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s futuristic science-fiction novel “Dune,” in theaters and on HBO Max.
Timothée Chalamet plays Paul Atreides, the son of a duke who is taking over as ruler of the desert planet Arrakis. In this sequence, Paul trains with one of his father’s aides, Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin), who tests his skills in swordplay.
Narrating the scene, the director Denis Villeneuve said that it needed to serve four purposes. First, it had to establish the relationship between Paul and Gurney. Second, it should provide more context surrounding the Atreides move to Arrakis. Third, it had to convey the idea that Paul has been training for combat but has never experienced real violence. And finally, the director wanted to introduce the concept of the Holtzman shields, which protect people from fast objects, making bullets obsolete and forcing combat to once again be waged by swords rather than guns.
Villeneuve worked with the fight coordinator Roger Yuan to build the scene using a Filipino martial-arts style developed in the 1950s called Balintawak Eskrima, which involves blocking the opponent’s attack with a weapon and a free hand. And the director said he worked with his cinematographer, Greig Fraser, to shoot the fight as if they were shooting a dance performance. “The goal was to embrace the complexity of the movements with objective camera angles,” Villeneuve said.
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October 22, 2021
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The Bravest Thing You Can Do Is Quit | NYT Opinion
It’s been a brutal few years. But we’ve gritted through. We’ve spent time languishing. We’ve had one giant national burnout. And now, finally, we’re quitting.
We are quitting our jobs. Our cities. Our marriages. Even our Twitter feeds.
And as we argue in the video above, we’re not quitting because we’re weak. We’re quitting because we’re smart.
It echoes what the 18-year-old singer Olivia Rodrigo expresses so profoundly when she laments, “I’m so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life, and they’d all be so disappointed, ’cause who am I if not exploited?” Perhaps it’s fitting that younger Americans like Ms. Rodrigo and the extraordinary Simone Biles are barely old enough to rent a car but they are already teaching us about boundaries. They’ve seen enough hollowed-out millennials to know what the rest of us are learning: Don’t be a martyr to grit.
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October 22, 2021
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Searching for the Lost Graves of Indigenous Children in Canada | NYT News
For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were forced to attend residential schools, where many endured abuse. Thousands were never seen again and survivors were long ignored. We followed a team of archaeologists who came to the Muskowekwan First Nation to search for the graves of these lost children.
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October 21, 2021
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‘It’s Just a Matter of Time for the Taliban to Find Me’: On the Run in Afghanistan | NYT Opinion
As the clock wound down on the American military presence in Afghanistan during the summer, Najlla Habibyar, a 37-year-old Afghan living in Kabul, planned to leave the country. A United States green card holder, she was among thousands of Afghans who had worked closely with the American government — an association that, she suspected, made her a ripe target for the Taliban.
But in a lightning-quick offensive in early August that seemed to catch everyone by surprise, the Taliban swept across the country and into Kabul, and suddenly the nation was theirs.
Ms. Habibyar, effectively trapped behind enemy lines, prepared to die.
In the Opinion video above, Ms. Habibyar, using video diaries she sent to The New York Times over the course of several weeks, documents her life on the run as she and about 20 relatives move from safe house to safe house while seeking an escape route out of the country. She recorded the diaries knowing they might be her last chance to share her story with the world.
“I think it’s just a matter of time for the Taliban to find me,” she said.
During this fight for survival, she wrestled with the painful truths of her lifelong and deeply troubled relationship with Afghanistan, a country that she loved, yet one that never fully loved her back.
Her story, in some ways, is the story of generations of Afghans and their struggle to find a stable home amid ceaseless political uncertainty, armed conflict and loss.
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October 14, 2021
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