Thompson on Hollywood: Immersed in Movies: 'Much Ado About' Shooting Shakespeare in Black-and-White

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Immersed in Movies: 'Much Ado About' Shooting Shakespeare in Black-and-White Jun 7th 2013, 16:20 Joss Whedon's marvelous Shakespeare house party in modern dress, "Much Ado About Nothing," is part of a mini black-and-white resurgence this year that also includes Noah Baumbach's screwball "Frances Ha," Alexander Payne's chilly "Nebraska," and Godfrey Reggio's counter-intuitive "Visitors." Maybe it's "The Artist" factor or maybe it's just time to go monochromatic again as a retro exercise in naturalism. For "Much Ado" cinematographer Jay Hunter (who previously worked with Whedon on the "Dollhouse" TV series), shooting in black-and-white was nirvana -- a mixture of film noir and the French New Wave. "I showed up at his house on a Sunday morning while Joss was still in post on 'The Avengers' and he told me what play he wanted to shoot, and the second sentence out of his mouth was it's gonna be in black-and-white," Hunter recalls. "And as a cinematographer, it's a very rare blessing to shoot anything in black-and-white these days. I told him I'm on board but I was curious to know why.... Media files: much-ado-about-nothing.jpg (image/jpeg)

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