The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present “An Academy Conversation with Danny Boyle,” including a screening of the Oscar winner’s feature directorial debut, Shallow Grave, on Thursday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.
Unabashedly brash cinematographer Christopher Doyle talks to Artinfo about everything from filming Ai Weiwei ("He is the great male star of the future of Chinese cinema. Please quote me. He’s the George Clooney of the new wave.") to why he thinks Life of Pi didn't deserve to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography ("You give...
This first look from Zacuto and AbelCine at the Sony F5 and Sony F55 looks at some of the differences between the two cameras as well as going through some handheld set-ups. Watch below.
Cinematographer Affonso Beato gives his first impressions of shooting with the Sony F65, writing, "I [initially] grabbed the available literature on the new camera capabilities, like its 8K sensor delivering 4K 16bit RAW images. Also I read about the ACES (Academy Cinema Encoding System) workflow, now a SMPTE standard and the highest level...
This beautiful retrospective celebrates the work and imagery of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky who, among others, influenced the work of Ingmar Bergman. Watch below.
Cinematographer Linus Sandgren talks about using film, ARRI cameras, and vintage anamorphic lenses to achieve the nostalgic look of How to Destroy Angels' music video for "Ice Age."
Says Sandgren, "[Director] John Hillcoat really appreciates cinematography and he liked the idea of shooting on those very imperfect LOMO...
American Cinematographer talks to Juan Ruiz-Anchia about shooting David Mamet's latest, the HBO biopic Phil Spector.
Says Ruiz-Anchia, "One thing about David’s writing, for a cinematographer, is that he is very expressive. His writing suggests many different images to the cinematographer, who then has to make a visual interpretation...
Fresh off of his Oscar win for best director, Ang Lee, editor Tim Squyres and writer David Magee were recently on-hand to discuss their film Life of Pi at its Blu-ray/DVD release party.
In this presentation that Larry Jordan gave at Broadcast Video Expo 2013, Jordan talks about the hype vs. reality of 4K. He says, "There's really four questions this boils down to. First, in production, why are you shooting 4K? The ancillary question is what version of 4K do you want to shoot because there's a lot of options. In post-...
