Art & Crafts from The Ankler

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a book by Heather Morris, follows the true story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who fell in love as prisoners at the notorious concentration camp. The action moves between the chilling world of Auschwitz and Melbourne, Australia circa 2006, when Morris meets Lali (Harvey Keitel) and learns his history. “It’s an inspiring story of love and survival in the darkest pla...

Shogun always meant a lot to Michael Cliett, who has fond memories of watching the 1980 miniseries with his dad as a kid in Japan. So the Emmy-nominated visual effects supervisor leapt at the opportunity to work on FX’s lavish adaptation of the James Clavell novel. Cliett speaks with host Rob Legato, the Oscar-winning VFX legend behind Titanic, about creating an authentic representation of Japan i...

Guy Ritchie’s stylish crime series The Gentlemen brings together British entitled aristocrats to Thai underworld killers in a power struggle over drugs, land and money. To build the world where these characters collide, Ritchie turned to production designer Martyn John and costume designer Loulou Bontemps. The duo spoke with Jeannine Oppewall, the Oscar-nominated production designer behind Seabisc...

“Jon's very opinionated and combative, but not in a bad way,” says Gotham Chopra, who likens the Bon Jovi frontman to an elite athlete. “Really smart, strongly opinionated — but at the end of the day, respects talent and allows people to do their job.” And Chopra’s job, as EP and director of Hulu’s Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story, was to pack the iconic glam-rock band’s four decades of m...

”It was a celebration of us being back together,” says first-time Oscars showrunner and Executive Producer Raj Kapoor. He’s talking about the instant classic showstopper “I’m Just Ken” that electrified audiences during the 96th Academy Awards, but as he notes, he’s also talking about the joy of returning to the movies. During this intimate conversation also with choreographer Mandy Moore and led b...

On a December weekend, costume designer Holly Waddington (earlier credits include War Horse) missed a slew of holiday parties after getting called to meet Yorgos Lanthimos about Poor Things. She spent days in a mad dash, preparing imagery based on the script and eponymous novel. What she ended up pitching involved “strange Japanese dolls with these clothes [in which] the proportion of the cloth is...

While Oppenheimer production designer Ruth De Jong and director Christopher Nolan were location scouting in New Mexico, site of the world’s first nuclear test, they heard that Russia had invaded Ukraine. “It was at the beginning when everyone was like, well, is this going to be World War III?” recalls De Jong, who “felt a responsibility” given the gravity of the film’s subject matter and Russia’s...