It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since Blood Simple, the ferociously compelling debut from Joel and Ethan Coen, thrilled audiences at a little film festival called Sundance. In the ensuing three decades, the brothers have more than lived...
NEBRASKA DP Phedon Papamichael, ASC by David Heuring THE WOLF OF WALL STREET DP Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC by Ted Elrick KILLING KENNEDY DP Barry Ackroyd, BSC by David Geffner GEAR GUIDE: Non-Fiction BOOK REVIEW EXPOSURE: Alexander Payne DEPTH OF...
Producer/director/writer Alexander Payne grew up in Omaha, Nebraska in a family of restaurateurs. He was fascinated by cameras at an early age, but his parents’ preference for a law degree put filmmaking aside until after he had earned a degree...
Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón first met cinematographer Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, ASC, AMC, at film school in his native Mexico. But it wasn’t until more than a decade later, after Cuarón had worked as an AD on numerous films, that the pair...
GRAVITY DP Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, ASC, AMC by Kevin Martin CAPTAIN PHILLIPS DP Barry Ackroyd, BSC by Valentina Valentini FLASH FRAME: DIT Kevin Stanley GEAR GUIDE: Workflow REPLAY: Sabotage EXPOSURE: Alfonso Cuaron DEEP FOCUS: Theo Van De Sande, ASC IN...
With a career replete with hard-hitting stories, from television, beginning with NYPD Blue to the creation of the cult cop drama Southland, to features like Copycat, Primal Fear, and Public Enemies, it’s easy to think the Oz behind the résumé’s...
