Release Date

25 Nov, 2013

Runtime

00:10: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The year's best big-screen performers in 11 original (very) short films.

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.

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Actors

Cate Blanchett

Bradley Cooper

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Greta Gerwig

Oscar Isaac

Michael B. Jordan

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Robert Redford

Forest Whitaker

Oprah Winfrey

Crew

Andrew Bujalski

Spike Jonze

Janusz Kamiński

Lake Bell

Evan Goldberg

Jeff Nichols

Ethan Hawke

Richard Linklater

Greta Gerwig

Danny Strong

J.C. Chandor

Julie Delpy

Nicole Holofcener

Seth Rogen