When I was a cinematography student, my classmates and I enjoyed learning from a rather eccentric teacher. He was supposed to illuminate the technical aspects of cinematography: f-stops, depth of field, basic optical principles, etc.
The opportunity to shoot the feature Going in Style came my way serendipitously after a number of years of shooting drama for television. The project is a remake of director Martin Brest’s 1979 feature of the same name, but unlike the original, ours would have a happy ending...
The 2017 Cannes International Film Festival has just begun. Although there are a lot of news stories about the films, directors and actors at Cannes, not enough is said about the cinematographers.
Part 2 of a video interview with Bradford Young, ASC during Camerimage. Bradford speaks candidly about his experience as an African-American cinematographer, freely “unpacking” the practice of his culture, including the shooting Selma by Ava DuVernay.
Part 1 of a video interview with Bradford Young, ASC, during Camerimage. Our discussion was a follow-up to a lively press conference where Bradford spoke at length about his experience as an African-American filmmaker and the political implications of cinema and cinematography.
Pt 2 continues my account of a two-day visit with Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS, on the set of Rogue One at Pinewood studios, and features part of my subsequent conversations with the cinematographer at Camerimage, and via Skype.
An expanded version of my article about Rogue One in the February issue of American Cinematographer, with additional illustrations and comments that we couldn't fit in the print version.
This post is an expanded version of my interview with Pablo Larraín, the director of Jackie, shot by Stéphane Fontaine, AFC, published in the January issue of American Cinematographer.
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