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January ’99 Online Articles

NEW: Browse Academy Award-nominated films, with links to online AC articles, read informative descriptions of the Academy Award Scientific and Technical Awards and browse ASC Award-nominated films with links to AC online articles at the Awards Links pages

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• Trouble in Paradise
  Director Jonathan Frakes and cinematographer Matt Leonetti, ASC reenlist the Federation's finest to protect a utopian culture in Star Trek: Insurrection



• Effecting an Insurrection
  The new Star Trek adventure travels at warp speed to digitally-enhanced worlds aboard an all-CG armada of spacecraft
  
  
• Space Cadets
  The amiable and entertaining documentary Trekkies offers a fond Vulcan salute to a certain sci-fi show's most passionate fans
  
  
• The Art of Filming Dangerously
  Thrill-seeking documentarians recount some of their most challenging — and harrowing — experiences

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• Scales of Justice
  Conrad Hall, ASC reteams with director Steven Zaillian to mount A Civil Action
  
  
• Street Hassles
  In War Zone, filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West hits Manhattan's sidewalks to confront men about their abusive treatment of female pedestrians
  
  
• Tracing a Filmmaker's Footsteps
  In Search of Kundun With Martin Scorsese tracks the director and his production team during the creation of a sweeping biopic about the Dalai Lama

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• Production Slate
  Industry news, including informative articles on the latest and most interesting projects from every arena, including:
  • The Third Annual International Documentary Congress
  
  
• New Products
  Briefs on the latest equipment and services
  
  
• Books in Review
  Monthly reviews of new books relating to motion picture production, by respected former AC editor George Turner.
  
  
• Wrap Shot
  Boris Karloff stages his defense before the lens of Benjamin Kline, ASC in The Man They Could Not Hang