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DP Hélène Louvart AFC depicts trouble in paradise for The Lost Daughter
By Darek Kuźma Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daring directorial debut, dealing with the profound complexity and moral ambiguity of motherhood, would not be the same without the skillset of French cinematographer Hélène Louvart AFC. On the face of it, Leda (Olivia Colman) seems...
DP Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC finds romance in the stone for Cyrano
By Iain Blair Acclaimed Irish director of photography, Seamus McGarvey BSC ASC BSC, has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and both nominations – for Atonement (2007) and Anna Karenina (2012) – came through collaborations with director...
DP George Geddes paints a moving picture for Gillies MacKinnon’s The Last Bus
By Michael Burns The Last Bus is a road trip movie with a difference. Starring Timothy Spall, the drama follows Tom, an elderly widower who takes a series of local bus journeys from John O’Groats, in Scotland, as he makes a poignant return to first home he shared with...
Shooting King Richard proved game, set and match for DP Robert Elswit ASC
By Darek Kuźma Director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s ambitious take on the unbelievable-yet-true story about the father of two of the most accomplished athletes in the history of sport was a welcome challenge for veteran cinematographer Robert Elswit ASC. Even if you are...
DP Janusz Kamiński conjures-up the razzle dazzle for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story using KODAK 35 film
The trouble with remaking classic, much-loved movies, is that they simply might not live up to expectations. But, Steven Spielberg’s vivid re-imagining of the iconic West Side Story seems to have defied that sort of outcome. And then some. Critics have hailed the new...
KODAK film helps serve-up a slice of the ’70s for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza
The course of true love never did run smooth. Filmed on KODAK 35mm, and described as an exquisitely-crafted, nostalgic-hallucination, Licorice Pizza is the fictional story about Gary Valentine, a precocious, entrepreneurial high-schooler, and his unconquerable crush...
Lighting the dark side of the moon – Moonfall
Director Roland Emmerich is no stranger to putting earth-shattering events on screen. The director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012 returns with another blockbuster disaster movie in which the moon itself is sent hurtling on a collision course to...
Highland Flings – DP Si Bell discusses his work on A Very British Scandal
Si Bell • A Very British Scandal By Michael Burns A Very British Scandal, a three-part BBC/Amazon co-production by Blueprint Pictures, is writer Sarah Phelps’ story of how beautiful heiress Margaret Sweeny (Claire Foy) first falls madly in, then most definitely out,...
CW Cine Catch-Up! Mari Yamamura and Gareth Ellis-Unwin on behalf of ScreenSkills
Chloe catches up with Mari Yamamura, cinematographer, DP and Film Forward participant, and Gareth Ellis-Unwin, head of film and animation at ScreenSkills.Thank you to George Barker, Event Producer who assisted on this interview. Gareth is a BAFTA and Academy Award...
Checco Varese ASC uses Zeiss lenses to help get his cinematic reality look on “Dopesick”
Bringing a harrowing real-life story to the screen demands the lightest possible touch of Hollywood’s usual hyperreality. Hulu's Dopesick, based on Beth Macy’s book, tackles the background to America’s opioid addiction crisis, and must walk that fine line between...
DP Jendra Jarnagin got creative with camera, lenses and lights on the low-budget Asking For It
By Ron Prince Creating bold visual stylisations to depict a story involving issues surrounding rape culture, the mistreatment of women, not to mention racism and homophobia, but all on a low-budget, with precious little prep time and a tight schedule, called for no...
DP Tami Reiker ASC delivered a knockout result for Regina King’s One Night In Miami
PLUS… AN EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH REGINA KING By Ron Prince “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…” is probably the most famous catchphrase of boxer Cassius Clay (later to become Muhammad Ali). The 22-year old pugilist prodigy uttered these classic words before...
DP Polly Morgan BSC ASC discusses her dynamic and thrilling visual storytelling artistry on A Quiet Place 2
By Ron Prince Although it had been a number of years since cinematographer Polly Morgan BSC ASC had shot using celluloid, she says coming back to film, for Paramount Picture’s A Quiet Place 2, ”was a complete joy.” “On a practical level, it was so refreshing to walk...

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