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Production Slate Women in Transition Pippa’s mother, Suky (Maria Bello), struggles to get through another morning in a scene from The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, shot by Declan Quinn, ASC. Discovering Pippa Lee by Claire Walla Writer and filmmaker Rebecca Miller published her first novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, in 2008. Shortly after its release, Miller, whose feature credits include Personal Velocity (AC April ’02) and The Ballad of Jack and Rose (AC April ’05), teamed with Declan Quinn, ASC to fine-tune Pippa Lee for the big screen. The film centers on a 50-year-old woman, Pippa (Robin Wright Penn), who moves into a sleepy Connecticut retirement community with her husband, Herb (Alan Arkin), who is 30 years older. Pippa proceeds to fall delicately into a midlife crisis that causes her to reflect on her aimless adolescence — marked by a pill-popping mother (Maria Bello) and an association with her aunt’s partner, a 18 November 2009 lesbian photographer (Julianne Moore) — and reconsider her present situation, including her budding affection for a neighbor’s son, Chris (Keanu Reeves). With such a mix of characters, time periods and emotional undercurrents, Miller wanted to create a unified story that would unfold fluidly. “When I came to write the screenplay, I realized pretty early on that the way to [achieve continuity] was for the camera to actually be moving from one world to the next,” says Miller. Quinn collaborated closely with production designer Michael Shaw to create sets that combined elements from two to three different scenes, so that the camera could physically roll from one time period directly into another. The most complicated of these transitions involves three different sets: Chris’ pickup truck, Pippa’s childhood kitchen, and her present-day dining room. Shaw created a set that put the kitchen and the dining room back-toback, and in front of the kitchen he attached the front portion of a pickup truck. The transition begins with a twoshot of Chris and Pippa in the truck and then moves to a close-up of Chris before pulling focus on the kitchen behind him, while Pippa reminisces about her childhood. After we watch an imagined exchange between an older Pippa and her mother, the camera pans right to Pippa’s present-day dining room, where we see Pippa and Herb eating dinner. “That transition moves from present-day to past to present-day again in three shots,” says Quinn. “It had to be done quickly, and all of these transitions were complicated to set up. I thought at first it would take half a day to shoot one, but each transition only The Private Lives of Pippa Lee photos by Gene Page, courtesy of Screen Media Films.

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American Cinematographer - November 2009
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Synaesthesia
Production Slate: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee; Cairo Time
Wild Kingdom
Pandora’s Predicament
Kicked Off the Pitch
The Root of All Evil
Quality Viewing
Post Focus: Restoring Apollo 11 Footage
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads/Ad Index
In Memoriam: Richard Moore, ASC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Anastas Michos
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Intro
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - American Cinematographer - November 2009
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Cover2
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 1
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Table of Contents
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 7
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Editor’s Note
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 9
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - President’s Desk
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 11
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Short Takes: Synaesthesia
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 13
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Production Slate: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee; Cairo Time
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Wild Kingdom
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Pandora’s Predicament
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 52a
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 57
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Kicked Off the Pitch
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - The Root of All Evil
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 75
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Quality Viewing
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 77
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Post Focus: Restoring Apollo 11 Footage
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 79
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - New Products & Services
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American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 91
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - International Marketplace
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 93
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Classified Ads/Ad Index
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 95
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - In Memoriam: Richard Moore, ASC
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 97
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Clubhouse News
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - 99
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - ASC Close-Up: Anastas Michos
American Cinematographer - November 2009 - Cover3
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