It is perhaps no accident that after a year as tumultuous as 2023, Emmy and Oscar season(s) remain jumbled together. In normal times, the Emmys would be done by now, but Hollywood continues to experience its own version of William Faulkner’s dictum that the past isn’t really “past” at all – about which, more anon. … Read more
SMOKE & MIRRORS Checco Varese ASC reveals how he visualised 1970s Los Angeles for Daisy Jones & The Six. “There is this myth in American culture that if you live on the East Coast and you travel to the West Coast, everything is going to be better and everything is going to be brighter,” says … Read more
With Cine Gear around the corner, our LA columnist examines the possible implications of the writers’ strike on the much anticipated tradeshow, and speaks to DPs Checco Varese ASC and Ludovica Isidori about their latest projects. As this column goes up, we’ll be on the eve of Cine Gear here in Los Angeles, and its … Read more
