Into the Wild
Thirty years after his first visit, John Bailey, ASC returns to Alaska for the environmental drama Big Miracle. By Bob Fisher. Photos by Darren Michaels. Read more
ICG February 2012
BIG MIRACLE
DP John Bailey, ASC
by Bob Fisher
HOMELAND
DP Nelson Cragg
by Matt Hurwitz
ASC AWARDS
by Bob Fisher & David Heuring
FAMILY AFFAIR
by Pauline Rogers
600 VOICES SERIES PART 2
by Pauline Rogers
EXPOSURE: Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa
FLASH FRAME: Wynn Hammer, SOC
GEAR GUIDE: Awards Season
KEYLIGHT: Fletcher Camera Chicago
DEEP FOCUS: Robert Dickinson
REFRACTION: Bruce Rosenblum
Exposure: John Cooper
With this, his 22nd film festival, no one (save for founder Robert Redford) has been more intrinsically bound to Sundance than John Cooper. His tenure actually pre-dates Sex, Lies and Videotape, often cited as the turning point in Sundance’s now two-decade reign as the world’s best indie festival. Cooper (employees and volunteers rarely use his first name) says his love affair with Park City was written in the stars. “I actually stumbled” upon Sundance during a layover flight in Utah,” he remembers. “I was on my way back to New York from San Francisco and met someone in a bar who asked if I’d like to volunteer at the festival. I was involved in theater at the time and the whole do-it-yourself approach of independent film really spoke to me.” Read more
To The Mountain
Local 600 filmmakers scale indie film-land’s summit at Sundance 2012. By David Geffner. Read more
President’s Letter – January 2012
January 3, 2012 by admin
Filed under President's Letter
My New Year’s Resolution? More change.
New years bring new thoughts about what lies ahead in the world of image capture and processing. And I think, in some ways, it will be a year of consolidation of services and transition to all things digital. The jury is still out however on how good this will be for the quality of motion pictures (notice I didn’t call them films). Read more
Keys to the City
Chris Menges, ASC, BSC, unlocks the fragile secrets of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. By Joseph Donovan. Photos by Francois Duhamel. Read more
ICG January 2012
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
DP Chris Menges, ASC, BSC
by Joseph Donovan
JOYFUL NOISE
DP David Boyd, ASC
by Ted Elrick
ARE WE THERE YET?
DP Bill Berner
by Pauline Rogers
DSLR TRENCH TALES
by Matthew Irving
INDIE HORROR CASE STUDY: THE WOMAN
by Valentina I. Valentini
600 VOICES SERIES PART I
by Pauline Rogers
EXPOSURE: John Cooper
KEY LIGHT: Canon Event
GEAR GUIDE: Indie Issue
UNSCRIPTED: Jeremy Walker
Stolen Moments
December 5, 2011 by admin
Filed under Web Exclusives
A conversation with award-winning cinematographer Andrew Wheeler and his AFI mentor, Stephen Lighthill, ASC. By Bob Fisher.
Youssef Alsheikh as "young Mehdi" in Thief / Courtesy of Andrew Wheeler
Cinematographer Andrew Wheeler shot his thesis film, Thief, while earning a Master of Fine Arts at the American Film Institute. The 24-minute short, which has racked up more than a dozen international awards, focuses on two periods in the life of Saddam Hussein, and is told in the Iraqi Arabic language with English subtitles. Read more
Exposure: Steven Zaillian
It’s not like screenwriter Steven Zaillian hasn’t plumbed the darkness in the human heart before he adapted David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on the first novel in Steig Larsson’s worldwide bestselling trilogy, Millennium. Zaillian’s sublime script for Schindler’s List, based on Thomas Keneally’s book, found hope in the bleakest of all human experiences, and won an Academy Award. And, over the last quarter century, Zaillian has been responsible for some of the most heart wrenching moments in cinema, most often adaptations of literary works like 1985’s The Falcon and the Snowman all the way up to this year’s Moneyball (written in conjunction with Aaron Sorkin). Novels and non-fiction have been fertile ground for Zaillian, who has also left his computer to direct projects he’s written, including Searching for Bobby Fisher, A Civil Action (which received a Writers Guild Award nomination), and All the King’s Men. Zaillian, who was also an executive producer on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, has awards from the WGA, BAFTA, and the Humanitas Prize, to sit alongside his Oscar. Chris Wolski caught up with Hollywood’s most respected scribe via email to talk about punk hackers, political evildoers, and finding a kindred spirit in Conrad Hall, ASC. Read more
Girl, Interrupted
How do you shoot a movie in freezing cold Sweden, from a book the whole world has read? David Fincher and Jeff Cronenweth, ASC heat up The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. By Chris Wolski. Photos by Merrick Morton. Read more
