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.
Full Cast of Making a Scene
Cate Blanchett
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Bradley Cooper
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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Greta Gerwig
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Oscar Isaac
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Michael B. Jordan
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Robert Redford
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Forest Whitaker
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Oprah Winfrey
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Crew of Making a Scene
Discover the backstage crew of Making a Scene →- Released on November 25, 2013