Cinematographer Natasha Braier ASC CDF is no stranger to making use of unusual lighting in her filmmaking, from the vivid psychological thriller The Neon Demon to the emotionally charged Honey Boy. On her most recent feature, the investigative journalistic drama, She Said (Plan B/Anapurna/Universal), Braier took her propensity for experimentation to into Long Island City’s … Read more
TREASURES OF THE EARTH When retelling the remarkable story of the Sutton Hoo excavation, cinematographer Mike Eley BSC and director Simon Stone adopted an elegant and distinctive visual style and handheld approach to convey the ethereal beauty of the rural locations and characters’ relationships as much as the wonder of the unearthed treasures. “I like … Read more
Sisters Act Edu Grau / Suffragette Sisters Act Edu Grau / Suffragette BY: Ron Prince Director Sarah Gavron’s feisty feature film Suffragette, about the wrestle for women’s suffrage is not a prim and proper affair. Far from it. Within the first few minutes of the movie a brick shatters a London shop window and, with shrieks from … Read more
Hardy Perennial Charlotte Bruus Christensen / Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy Perennial Charlotte Bruus Christensen / Far from the Madding Crowd BY: Ron Prince Far From The Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, a popular literary … Read more
Bruno Chrome Peter Doyle / Inside llewyn Davis Bruno Chrome Peter Doyle / Inside llewyn Davis With a career spanning over twenty years, Peter Doyle is one of the film industry’s most distinguished supervising digital colourist. Now supervising colourist at Technicolor, he is renowned for his remarkable handling of digital colour-grading and pioneering approach to … Read more
Wealth and Decadence Simon Duggan ACS / The Great Gatsby Wealth and Decadence Simon Duggan ACS / The Great Gatsby BY: Adrian Pennington Simon Duggan ACS details how stereoscopic 3D was used to craft a greater connection with film’s performances and storytelling for Baz Luhrmann’s majestic The Great Gatsby. Article written by Adrian Pennington. Filmed … Read more