April 2019
FeatureThe Silver Branch Wins AC Award at Salem Film Fest 2019
All five of this year’s contenders for the American Cinematographer Magazine Award for Best Cinematography offered impressive visuals....more
Stephen Pizzello
March 2019
HistoricalWrap Shot: In Cold Blood
Stark black-and-white photography by Conrad L. Hall, ASC added a grim sense of realism to this unsettling 1967 true-crime drama....more
July 2018
FeatureLeica Unveils Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH
The rebranding of Leica’s cinema-lens sister company, formerly CW Sonderoptic, served as the centerpiece of the company’s gala event at its newly completed Leitz-Park complex in Wetzlar, Germany....more
April 2018
HistoricalFrom Rags to Reservoir Dogs
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino and cinematographer Andrzej Sekula detail their approach to shooting what would become a classic crime tale....more
August 2017
HistoricalApocalypse Now: A Clash of Cultures
In this archival article, Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC and Stephen Burum, ASC recount the production of Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic....more
November 2016
HistoricalStar Trek 50 Part VII — Next Generation Production
Marvin V. Rush, ASC and visual effects supervisor Robert Legato, ASC detail their approach to the Trek series reboot in this archival interview....more
July 1998
HistoricalWrap Shot: The Parallax View
Behind the scenes of the iconic 1974 thriller, photographed by Gordon Willis, ASC....more
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