A team of Guild DP’s help to create HBO’s update of Westworld, one of the creepiest theme-park thrillers ever filmed…on film. As she does every morning, Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) steps out onto the porch of the modest homestead...
Kira Kelly finds “the pure truth” at the dancing heart of Hulu’s hit teen series, East Los High High school is a rich setting for onscreen drama: jocks, nerds, misfits, outcasts and prom queens, fistfights, despair, passions, and a longing...
John Schwartzman, ASC, captures Michael Keaton’s “supersized” performance in the story of McDonalds’ founding. While heading home one night from San Bernardino to Illinois, Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) makes a fateful decision. He pulls off to the side of a...
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart spell comedic double trouble for Guild DP Barry Peterson in the new Warner Bros. buddy flick, Central Intelligence The classic buddy cop movie typically involves two guys (updated in recent years with female leads) of...
A Single Frame. By Pauline Rogers. All Images from A Single Frame / Courtesy of SMPSP. Main Image: Colin Firth during a break while shooting The Single Man in South Pasadena, CA (2009) / Photo by Melissa Moseley. It’s their third book and it’s big,...
DPs Stephen St. John and Feliks Parnell recreate the lighting look of a Civil War hospital for PBS’s first dramatic series A nurse enters a ward in the former Mansion House Hotel – now commandeered as a Union Army hospital...
The new indie feature, A Light Beneath Their Feet, focuses a warm, bright beam on mental illness and a family struggling for balance. By Pauline Rogers. All Photos courtesy of Emerging Pictures. Responsibility. It’s one of the weightiest words in the English...
Avatar meets Rudyard Kipling as Bill Pope, ASC, takes a romp through the high-tech jungle in the classic children’s tale When cinematographer Bill Pope, ASC, first met with Jon Favreau to discuss the filmmaker’s latest project for Disney, a new...
Claudio Miranda, ASC, exploits real-world locales for Destiny’s planet-hopping video-game series When a trio of tough-talking, space suited soldiers turn up armed and dangerous on three neighboring planets in rapid succession, it doesn’t take a big leap of imagination to...
Local 600 unit still photographers break down the hottest new trend in set photography – mirrorless cameras. By Pauline Rogers. Shorter working hours, tighter sets, complicated setups, and no time for compliance all conspire to make today’s unit stills position a...
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, helps the Coen brothers gate-crash a 1950’s-era Hollywood movie factory for Hail, Caesar! With careers dating back three decades (to Blood Simple), Joel and Ethan Coen boast an acclaimed filmography that ranges from farce to fantasy...
It’s hard to ignore the bold statement of so many female-driven stories at Sundance 2016 – even if we’d love to see more women DP’s among those ranks. Indie film media wags are already calling Sundance 2016 “The Year...
