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...
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....
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...
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,...
Ben Kufrin. By Pauline Rogers. When cinematographer Ben Kufrin and director Youssef Delara came together for their fifth feature pairing, the romantic comedy The Bounce Back, driven by actor Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds), it was their largest-scale project to date. Given...
Crew from left to right: B-camera 1st AC: Kate Moss, DIT: John Waterman, Digital Utility: Max Moore, A-camera Operator / Steadicam Operator: Sebastien Audinelle, A-camera 2nd AC: Josh Ramos, Director of Photography: Ted Lichtenheld, PA: Savannah Perkins, A-camera 1st AC:...
Whiplash, the Oscar-winning Sundance hit that rocketed director Damien Chazelle to the top of every producer’s must-call list, was not necessarily a good predictor for the stunning follow-up that is La La Land, a candy-colored romantic musical inspired by 1950’s...
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...
