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.
Release Date: November 25, 2013
October 17, 1925
April 18, 2020
January 01, 2020
November 18, 2022
February 06, 1904
October 30, 1896
June 01, 1901
August 29, 1909
October 20, 2012
March 14, 1908
April 03, 1908
August 18, 1909
June 30, 1909
May 05, 2016
October 06, 2021
November 10, 1979
October 26, 2018
January 01, 1961
February 19, 1909
November 13, 2023