FEATURE ATTRACTIONS

BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU) set out to celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday by creating something that felt both cinematic and unmistakably rooted in the visual language of British natural history filmmaking. The resulting short film, A Very...

Director of photography Brett Pawlak reteams with director Destin Daniel Cretton for the latest big-screen adventure of everyone’s favourite wall-crawler. The world has forgotten about Peter Parker. Well, not our real world, but the world presented in Spider-Man:...

By Our Man in LA, Iain Blair Given the current rapid advances in AI, genetics and robotic warfare, the new action thriller Onslaught couldn’t be timelier. Directed by Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong, You’re Next) the film stars Adria Arjona as a young mother living in...

Reflecting on her own journey behind the camera, the director of photography offers words of encouragement to the next generation of cinematographers. Cinematographer Anka Malatynska realised early on that images captured through a lens could provide a passport to the...

By Our Man in LA, Iain Blair Bridgerton, the Emmy-winning Netflix romance streamer, is now in its fourth season, and as it follows the twisty tale of the namesake aristocratic family set in an alternative, multi-culti London Regency era of the early 19th century, it...

BY IAIN BLAIR The Testaments is the new ten-episode sequel to the Emmy-winning dystopian drama television series The Handmaid's Tale. Based on the 2019 novel The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, and again created by Bruce Miller, the Hulu streamer follows the story of...

Cinematographer David Becheri transforms trains into moving sets, capturing the authentic stories, emotions and everyday journeys of passengers across Italy for Amazon Prime Documentary, shot on the URSA Cine 12K LF. Shot on a compressed schedule, Andata e Ritorno was...

by Mel Noonan, StylusMC Many Steadicam operators have made their career decision during or after attending a Tiffen Steadicam workshop. The courses are friendly, intense and very highly regarded by the Steadicam community. There are Bronze, Silver and Gold, rising in...

Senior colourist Josh Bohoskey helped shape a picture pipeline on the HBO Max show that could manage heavy vignetting, unpredictable contrast and a seasonal colour shift running across the series. From the outset, Rooster was not meant to look clean. Cinematographer...

The cinematographer reveals how he tackled the tug-of-war between brothers in writer-director Ronan Day-Lewis’ debut feature. Ben Fordesman BSC is the cinematographer behind such notable independent features as writer-director Rose Glass’ St. Maud and Love Lies...

DP Ashley Connor wrote-in with details about her work on the new Netflix movie Remarkably Bright Creatures, starring Sally Field, Alfred Molina, and Lewis Pullman. For the adaptation, she worked incredibly closely with the film’s director to bring the bond between...