— VICE Media’s Director of Photography Jake Burghart and Segment DP Jerry Ricciotti show us how they configure their Canon C300s for their rugged and sometimes dangerous documentary shoots. The video is on vimeo +++
Jul 222014
Jul 172014
— Xavier Dolan’s film is about a flamboyant mother who home-schools her turbulent teenage son with the help of school teacher neighbor. This inventive feature was shot on 35mm film in the unusual 1:1 format by André Turpin. Dolan’s film shared the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Jean-Luc Godard’s 3D film, Goodbye [...]
Jun 202014
This classic 2010 commercial directed by Alejandro Iñarritu with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki shows hilarious alternative futures for world cup players, including Cannavaro, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Rooney. These frames of Wayne Rooney facing either defeat or glory might ease the pain of England’s dire straits in the current world cup, with a little humor. +++ +++ [...]
Jun 082014
Director Guy Ritchie tells the story of a player’s difficult progression from a small club to the World Cup. The short film is a series of POV shots, with cameo appearances by soccer greats. This is the 3-minute director’s cut. Watch on YouTube +++ — +++
Apr 212014
— Anais Bordages from BuzzFeed offers us 69 memorable screen grabs from the Mad Men show. +++ Link http://bzfd.it/1mlet4e +++
Apr 202014
Images from the the last 4 minutes of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 masterpiece “The Gospel According to Saint Matthew”. The sequence starts with the descent of Christ’s body from the cross, his burial, & the subsequent visit to an empty tomb. The film ends with Jesus telling the disciples that he will always be with [...]
Apr 142014
A skit on the Saturday Night Live TV show features the cast playing rapper Jay-Z and sister-in-law Solange explaining away their infamous elevator fight by explaining that she was trying to get a spider off him. +++
Mar 192014
To be honest, I had been avoiding seeing Nymphomaniac Volume I by Lars von Trier. It felt like homework I had to do. Don’t get me wrong, I love sexuality as a filmmaking subject, in part because it is so difficult to do well. I feel that the 2 most difficult cinema subjects are sex [...]
Mar 032014
___ You can read the in-depth cover story that I wrote about Gravity for the American Cinematographer online here. Emmanuel Lubezki’s work on this film is a paradigm of the expanded role of the cinematographer in films with high virtual content. We are entering an era that includes virtual cinematography in the DP’s job. The [...]
Mar 032014
___ This is my breakdown of the complex workflow for the film GRAVITY by Alfonso Cuaron with cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC. Gravity was a complex production that mixed virtual and real imaging elements in innovative ways. What follows is a rough outline of the key steps involved in the project’s workflow. CG lighting [...]