Features

Humanity 2.0

Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, reveals what lies beyond ‘Ridleyville’ in Denis Villeneuve’s new Blade Runner 2049. Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece, Blade Runner, derived from Philip K. Dick’s cult novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, hit theaters during one of...

Deep Cover

The creators of The Wire and Treme return to television for this gritty look at the origins of the porn industry – and a long-vanished world on New York City’s 42nd St. Standing in Times Square in 2017, watching moms and dads with strollers and international...

Shots Fired

Detroit, 1967: One terrifying incident in the history of American Civil Rights becomes the centerpiece of a film tour de force for Barry Ackroyd, BSC, and director Kathryn Bigelow   The city of Detroit was already in flames, its black...

Dear Mama

Tupac Shakur’s status as myth and icon has only grown in the quarter-century since his passing. Now comes a narrative feature brash and bold enough to tell Pac’s story. By David Geffner Photos by Quantrell Colbert Even compared to the...

Family Ties

The galaxy’s most dysfunctional guardians are back to save the Marvel Cinematic Universe in GOTG, Volume 2. by Kevin H. Martin Unit Stills by Chuck Zlotnick Frame Grabs Courtesy of Marvel The two-time-Oscar-nominated film Guardians of the Galaxy [shot by...

Bedrock of New York

The impact of Sol Negrin, ASC, SOC, on the film and television industry will live on long after his passing, as his peers, colleagues, friends, family and students recall in this loving tribute. By Pauline Rogers It was 1976. The...

Silent Runners

Jess Hall, BSC, helps to create a live-action alternate future with the anime-inspired thriller Ghost in the Shell.   The 1995 animated film Ghost in the Shell is among the most acclaimed entries in the anime genre. Derived from a...

Large and in Charge

Larry Fong, ASC, pulls some sleight-of-hand visual magic for the latest incarnation of Kong, the great ape. It’s hard to find a more enduring (and misunderstood) movie monster than the great gorilla, Kong, who made his debut in Merian C....

Peaks and Valleys

Local 600-shot films in Park City this year rise to new heights (and emotionally challenging depths). By David Geffner. All photos courtesy of The Sundance Institute unless otherwise noted.  Fans of indie cinematography will find much to celebrate at the 2017 Sundance...

The Space Race

Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS, helps bring the proud black women heroes behind NASA’s early space program out into the light February 20, 1962. Fledgling astronaut John Glenn, dressed in his “space suit,” approaches the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, FL,...

Breathless

Linus Sandgren, FSF, inhales deeply of the cinematic magic that is La La Land. La La Land, the new romantic musical from indie director Damien Chazelle, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a pair of star-crossed dreamers in contemporary...

Southern Comfort

Loving, the fifth feature Adam Stone has shot for director Jeff Nichols, is nonfiction inspired storytelling as it’s rarely seen – lush and cinematic. If you’ve never been to the American south – where the summer light seems to linger...