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.
Revenge for Jolly!
Comedy, Drama
4.8
Catch Me If You Can
Drama, Crime
8.0
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.1
The Conjuring
Horror, Thriller
7.5
Interstellar
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
8.4
It
Horror
7.2
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
7.4
Dune
Science Fiction, Adventure
7.8
Whiplash
Drama, Music
8.4
Call Me by Your Name
Romance, Drama
8.1
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
8.1
Top Gun
Action, Drama
7.1
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
7.8
Don't Look Up
Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama
7.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Comedy, Drama
8.1
The Happening
Thriller, Science Fiction
5.4
Parasite
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
8.5
There Will Be Blood
Drama
8.1
Get Out
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
7.6
I Am a Forest
Fantasy
0.0
The Christmas Carol
Fantasy, Drama
5.8
Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle
Fantasy, Drama
4.5
Un Chien Andalou
Horror, Fantasy
7.4
Shackles
Fantasy, Drama
0.0
Fledge
Animation, Fantasy
6.0
The Source of the Mountains
Fantasy, Family, Animation
0.0
Anna the Maid
Fantasy, Drama
0.0
Abenteuerliche Reise
Fantasy, Animation, Adventure
0.0
Red Sky at Night
Drama, Fantasy
0.0
Carillon
Fantasy, Drama
7.0
Balloon
Drama, Fantasy
7.6
The Werewolf's Greatest Hit
Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Comedy
0.0
ἌΦΕΣΙΝ
Fantasy
0.0
Beestig
Comedy, Fantasy
0.0
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
6.8
Bloomer Smokes Opium
Fantasy, Comedy
6.0
Mirror Man
Comedy, Fantasy
0.0
Werewolf by Night
Action, Fantasy, Horror
7.0
Painted Skin
Drama, Fantasy
0.0