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Joan Crawford getting her and makeup touched up on the set of The Shining Hour, 1938

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Benedict Cumberbatch has curly hair?

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#GoldenGlobe Predictions

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Ben Kingsley's performance in

Billy Williams talks about the transformation of a youthful Kingsley into the elderly Gandhi

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Great makeup to look out for in 2014 - Into the Woods (mua Peter King HOD), Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (HOD Luisa Abel), X-Men: Days of the Future Past (mua HOD/designer Norma Hill Patton), The Momuments Men (Makeup HOD Christine Beveridge) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah (Judy Chin mua HOD)

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Happy New Year from Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart

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Ken Lintott's workshop, London

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Rick Baker, most awarded and nominated MUA in Oscar history, makes a "monster". On the 23 March 2010 at LA's El Rey Theater, M.A.C. Pro hosted a Rick Baker Master Class. All images by Andreas Branch for PMc  (for the original page go here http://guestofaguest.com/los-angeles/events/rick-baker-mac-pro-makes-a-monster )  

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“The journey into ourself, that Willard is doing, is the journey that can do within the color spectrum, starting from the beginning to end into light that represents life.” —Vittorio Storaro on ‘Apocalypse Now’

Reads/Watches/Listens:

Vittorio Storaro recalls the photographic challenges he confronted during the tumultuous production of Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic [pdf]

Writing with Light: An interview with Vittorio Storaro, Film Quarterly, Spring 1982 [pdf]

Film Voices — Interviews From Post Script

Excellent rare footage of Vittorio Storaro, Garrett Brown, Oscar-winning inventor of Steadicam, and Francis Ford Coppola during the shoot of ‘One from the Heart’

Vittorio Storaro explains his “passion of red and the reason for blue”

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If you have made mistakes and there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down but the staying down.

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I couldn’t have said it better! (at Huniford Design)

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The Elephant Man makeup by Christopher Tucker - the film for which the category of Makeup was created by the Academy Awards. 

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https://www.justgiving.com/remember/95041/Julia-Cruttenden 

In memory of Julia Cruttenden, Greasepaint 

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Happy Birthday, Dame Margaret Natalie “Maggie” Smith (28 Dec., 1934)

Ageing isn’t the nicest thing. You end up feeling like you couldn’t go to Los Angeles because (she stretches the skin of her face) it hasn’t been put in the right place. They put old people away somewhere.

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Very exciting! http://makeupmag.com/featured/id/1189/

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Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore - Photographed by Alberto Tolot

Photographic Collection 13 […more Images]

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Compared: The work of Dick Smith on Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man - and Joel Harlow's work on Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger - granted, one was a drama, the other an action film