We titled this web exclusive 600 at Sundance not for the obvious reason, but more because ICG’s massive presence (at the world’s preeminent party celebrating filmmaking of independent vision and spirit) feels like an army descending upon Park City’s snow-bound...
FEATURES THE BOOK OF ELI DP Don Burgess, ASC By Margot Carmichael Lester THE SPY NEXT DOOR DP Dean Cundey, ASC By Robert Allen MODERN FAMILY DP James Bagdonas, ASC By Jon Silberg iPHONE APPS FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY By Andrew Takeuchi...
Don Burgess, ASC and the brothers Hughes whip up a storm in the high New Mexico desert for The Book of Eli. By Margot Carmichael Lester Filmmaking twins Albert and Allen Hughes don’t make a lot of movies – four...
Between his earliest low-budget films and later studio-sponsored efforts, New Zealand-born filmmaker Peter Jackson has blended inventive visual effects (sometimes hilariously over-the-top in nature) and photographic sleight of hand to portray apparitions, both ghastly and ghostly. These treatments have varied...
FEATURES INVICTUS DP Tom Stern, ASC By Bob Fisher THE LOVELY BONES DP Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS By Kevin Martin BURN NOTICE DP William Wages, ASC By Pauline Rogers GENERATION NEXT By Margot Carmichael Lester FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL By Joseph...
Ken Burns was born in Brooklyn and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He enrolled at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1971 with, as he puts its, “a naïve notion of preparing for a career as a narrative filmmaker in...
FEATURES A CHRISTMAS CAROL DP Robert Presley By Carolyn Giardina THE BLIND SIDE DP Alar Kivilo, ASC, CSC By Margot Carmichael Lester DANCING WITH THE STARS By Ted Elrick THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA DP Buddy Squires THE SEPTEMBER...
Cinematographers Antonio Rossi and Ben Bloodwell talk about Dirt! The Movie – a different kind of documentary about a very different kind of a subject...
