“Netflix has confirmed Season 6 of Black Mirror, unveiled trailer [featuring cinematography by Catherine Lutes] and launch date, and revealed a bumper cast list featuring Aaron Paul, Kate Mara, Michael Cera and Salma Hayek Pinault. ... [Read More]

Hailing from series creator Kelvin Yu (Bob’s Burgers) and director Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) [with cinematographer by Brett Pawlak] American Born Chinese tells ... [Read More]

[Cinematographer Crescenzo Notarile, ASC, AIC]: “Look books were important to communicate attitude, emotion, feeling, colors, compositions, etc., especially during this Covid time of meeting over Zoom as opposed to being tactile ... [Read More]

“[The] film does work quite well as a procedural thriller, maintaining a tense, haunted atmosphere between peaks of skillfully realized action. Particularly good are scenes in which we know something ... [Read More]

Flashbacks spotlighting their happy times in Maggie’s youth (drenched in a blissful glow thanks to John Matysiak’s poetic cinematography) function as direct links to the happy memories they’re forming in ... [Read More]

When offered the chance to work with Brad Anderson on their third shoot together, Björn Charpentier SBC leapt at the chance. But there was one small problem: “I don’t like ... [Read More]

“More often, though, the camera’s positioning, movement and focus are inobtrusive. And that’s by design. The point, cinematographer Shane Hurlbut said, is to have the camera work and lighting amplify the ... [Read More]

“At the cavernous soundstage, a staircase had been set up to look like a walk to…where? “We are using the same black and white film that Scorsese used to shoot Raging ... [Read More]

“For this base-level grade of “EEAAO,” Bickel and [cinematographer Larkin Seiple] dialed into the color palette of Fujifilm film stocks. Bickel explains, “I think of Ektachrome [a 1950s Kodak stock ... [Read More]

“A lot of people think design is picking out a cute chair or painting a wall,” says Monique Dias, production designer for NBC’s Grand Crew. “But it’s about taking who a ... [Read More]