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...
Harris Savides, ASC, and Gus Van Sant re-team to chart the inspiring story of human rights activist Harvey Milk, the one-time “Mayor of Castro Street”...
Local 600 shooters gather at the Guild to test-drive the Red One system and separate hype from fact with the talked-about new digital capturing device...
It might sound like a case of history repeating itself – the kind of event traditionally associated with a failure to pay attention to what had gone before and the resulting consequences that follow. During the 1988 Presidential election year,...