Terence Malick is a master whose unique sensibility is behind films like Badlands, Days Of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. Emmanuel Lubezki AMC ASC, the grandson of a Russian-born actress who emigrated to Mexico to escape the Bolshevik revolution, made a splash with Like Water For Chocolate, and went on to photograph Y Tu Mama Tambien, A Little Princess, Ali, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Burn After Reading, and Children Of Men, which earned him a BAFTA Award in 2006
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Following the recent publication by the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) of the technical standards expected for UK TV programming, the production community is preparing to gather at BAFTA for one last attempt to persuade broadcasters of the creative value of Super16mm, reports Adrian Pennington
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With his bulldog, ‘Eddie-Monster’, curled up at his feet, and his family retiring to bed, Anthony Dod Mantle DFF BSC spoke to Ron Prince via Skype, about his work on 127 Hours, The Eagle and Dredd 3D. The cinematographer had just come back from collecting a prestigious Award in Marburg, Germany, so we kicked of with that
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“My DVD collection is not a happy one, in fact it’s pretty morose,” admits Ben Smithard. “I’ve probably got five comedies in a library of about 3,000 films at home”
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The movie business is built on stories of success springing from humble, even poor beginnings. Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock went on to define styles and influence countless others; behind the camera Freddie Francis, Alan Hume and Jack Cardiff shot some of the enduring images in cinema. A medium all would be familiar with is 16mm film, which was originally intended for amateur filmmaking it. But it, and its enhanced relative Super 16, has exceeded expectations and been used on standout feature films, documentaries and television dramas over its 88-year existence, writes Kevin Hilton
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True Grit is the 11th collaboration for Roger Deakins BSC ASC with filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen. Deakins earned four of his eight Oscar nominations for their co-ventures on Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) and No Country For Old Men (2007), with the latter two also gleaning BAFTA Awards. He received an additional BAFTA and Oscar nomination for The Reader (shared with Chris Menges BSC ASC), writes Bob Fisher......
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Christopher Nolan, Wally Pfister, ASC and producer Emma Thomas have collaborated on the creation of another breathtaking motion picture. Inception follows in the wake of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. The Warner Bros. film revolves around Dom Cobb, a criminal mastermind who has invented a way to invade people’s dreams and steal their most precious secrets, writes Bob Fisher....
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Last year we ran a piece about Haris Zambarloukos BSC and his production work on the Kenneth Branagh-directed Thor. A year on, Ron Prince caught up with the cinematographer via Skype, as he was grading the film in Los Angeles. What with previz, contending with a hefty number of VFX, 2D to 3D post conversion, plus 2D and 3D DI grading, Haris’ intimate involvement in the movie’s creation is just about as modern and cutting-edge as it comes
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Haris Zambarloukos BSC took time out during a lunch break, whilst shooting on location in New Mexico, to speak to British Cinematograher about his work on Thor, the forthcoming fantasy-feature based on the successful Marvel comic-book series, first published in 1962
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After seeing Black Swan at the Telluride Film Festival, a New York Times critic enthusiastically described it as a supernatural thriller filmed against a ballet world backdrop. It can also be thought of it as a hybrid cross between The Red Shoes, which Jack Cardiff BSC created visual magic for in 1948, and a dark, character-driven mystery directed by Alfred Hitchcock, writes Robert Allen......
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Period films are a standard entry on the filmographies of most cinematographers these days but few have spanned the centuries like Danny Cohen BSC. From Revolutionary America through the austere years of Britain in the 1940s and ‘50s to the present day, Cohen has worked on a wide range of styles and subjects, including historical biography, comedy and horror
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Covering International Cinematography
We Need to Talk About Kevin is an intimate, dark and sometimes frightening film that takes place in contemporary times with insightful flashbacks weaved into the fabric of the story
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