Consider that for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected including 87 world premieres, 19 North American premieres, and four U.S. premieres representing 21 different countries...
FOUR Park City publicity pros offer SEVEN tips to the 10 craziest days in January. By Margot Carmichael Lester PARK CITY IN JANUARY … To indie filmmakers and their crews, those four simple words are akin to winning the lottery....
New York City-native James Gray studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California and made his first commercial film, Little Odessa, in 1994, when he was just 25 years old. That film (photographed by Tom Richmond) earned the Silver Lion...
Trains, planes, and ocean liners! Cinematographer Steve Yedlin employs sleight-of-hand for the world’s biggest low-budget movie, The Brothers Bloom...
Since his debut feature, Alien3, in 1992, David Fincher has been a fearless “first adopter” of new technologies and production methodologies to change the face of genre films; using bleach-bypass to evoke the bleak and nameless urban metropolis in the...
FEATURES THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON DP Claudio Miranda By Kevin H. Martin HURRICANE SEASON DP Larry Blanford By Phillip Williams FRINGE DP Michael Bonvillain, ASC By Matt Hurwitz DEPARTMENTS FLASH FRAME Eric Steelberg Craig Haagesen EXPOSURE David Fincher...
Cinematographer Claudio Miranda climbs into the way-back machine to help visualize David Fincher’s stunning adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ageless short story...
Riddle me this: what do Touch of Evil’s three-and-one-half minute opening crane shot, Saving Private Ryan’s Normandy beach invasion, or Bound For Glory’s dusty ramble through a California migrant camp all have in common? If you said they’re among the...
FEATURES MILK DP Harris Savides, ASC By David Geffner THE SOLOIST: DP Seamus McGarvey, BSC By Bob Fisher Quantum of Solace: DPs Roberto Schaefer, ASC & Dave Stump, ASC By Kevin H. Martin DEPARTMENTS FLASH FRAME Bob Richman Tom Hurwitz...
DPs are accustomed to a certain amount of preparation for a shoot. Mundane things like lining up special equipment or engaging a second camera. Rarely does pre-production involve instruction in Krav Maga (the official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense...
Directors known for character-driven pictures are rarely hired to steer the venerable James Bond action franchise. With the exceptions of filmmakers like Michael Apted or Lewis Gilbert, the legendary British spy series has relied on former film editors like Peter...