January 2021

Rebecca: Revisiting Manderley

At top, Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) shares a passionate moment with his new wife (Lily James). Photos by Kerry Brown, courtesy of Netflix.  In 50 years, the dawn of the streaming broadcasters might be remembered as another golden age of cinema. Right now, the fight for dominance is funding a huge range of productions that demand carefully applied craft and also, increasingly, the big guns of modern production technology: larger sensors, HDR, 4K and beyond. Sometimes, though, that drive for high-spec moviemaking meets a simultaneous desire for classical pictures that evoke a period setting; bringing those two elements together became the responsibility of cinematographer Laurie Rose, BSC on Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier’s novel...more