Shadow of Doubt Ben Seresin / Broken City Shadow of Doubt Ben Seresin / Broken City Some cinema genres are closely identified with a specific period of time. Film noir in particular is most associated with its heyday, the late 1940s and early ‘50s, despite efforts by a new generation of filmmakers and writers to … Read more
Coming of Age Jess Hall BSC / The Spectacular Now Coming of Age Jess Hall BSC / The Spectacular Now The most important thing for cinematographer Jess Hall BSC in capturing in The Spectacular Now was honesty. Neither he nor director James Ponsoldt – who wowed Sundance audiences last year with Smashed – were looking … Read more
Hard Light Larry Fong / Super 8 Hard Light Larry Fong / Super 8 At the recent Cine Gear industry confab, held on the backlot at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, a screening of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) was followed by a discussion with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond ASC, who won an Oscar for … Read more
