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Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: 'It's Totally Chilling... and Quite Brilliant'

Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: 'It's Totally Chilling... and Quite Brilliant'

Much of the emotional power of Joel and Ethan Coen's Best Picture contender True Grit comes from the contributions of longtime collaborator and nine-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, a cinematographer whose compositions and visual choices lend the Western a subtle, nostalgic quality. It's fitting, then, that when Deakins played My Favorite Scene with Movieline recently, he pointed toward a film that also utilizes the understated to great -- but very different -- effect.

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