THE FABLE MAN Spielberg’s most personal work yet shines a light on the director’s early years of moviemaking and is full of nods to his great filmography. By his side for every film since 1993’s Schindler’s List is Janusz Kamiński, who found making The Fabelmans a deeply affecting experience. One has to wonder how different … Read more
The night’s big winners were The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical family drama that also won him best director, shot by Janusz Kamiński, and Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, shot by Ben Davis BSC. Network darling Abbott Elementary, HBO’s prequel House of the Dragon and Mike White’s The White Lotus took home the highest TV … Read more
The Homage of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival will be devoted to US-American director, producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg, who will also be presented with an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. In the scope of the Award Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, the festival will screen his most recent work, The Fabelmans. A recipient of multiple … Read more
This year’s edition will conclude on Saturday 19 November with a Closing Ceremony and award presentation followed by a special screening of The Fabelmans, the deeply personal project of master-filmmaker Steven Spielberg, with beautiful and evocative cinematography of his trusted collaborator Janusz Kamiński ASC. The film stars Gabriel LaBelle (The Predator, American Gigolo series) as … Read more
ARTISTIC FREEDOM The great Polish born American cinematographer has a seventh Oscar nomination for his nineteenth picture with Steven Spielberg and he is still striving for perfection. You cannot understand Janusz Kamiński, his extensive relationship with Steven Spielberg nor their latest collaboration without appreciating the cinematographer’s “nostalgia for bleakness.” This is a deep-rooted philosophy of … Read more
BAFTA has revealed that a state-of-the-art projection room will be named after the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-winning director Steven Spielberg, in honour of his generous support of the redevelopment of 195 Piccadilly. In a career spanning over four decades, Steven Spielberg has won three BAFTAs for both film and games, received sixteen BAFTA nominations and, … Read more
The March 2022 issue of British Cinematographer is now here! You can find out more about the exclusive interviews and articles you can find inside our BSC Expo 2022 special edition now by reading on… DAN LAUSTSEN ASC DFF ON NIGHTMARE ALLEY In our cover story special, we catch up with Dan Laustsen ASC DFF to discuss his time lensing neo-noir psychological thriller Nightmare Alley – based on the 1946 novel … Read more
Douglas Trumbull, the pioneering special effects genius who helped create the worlds of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture has died, according to a Facebook post from his daughter, Amy Trumbull. He was 79. Trumbull developed the slit-scan photography process that was used in the “Star Gate” … Read more
Amongst the winners at this year’s NYFCC (New York Film Critics Circle) awards were Jane Campion, Paul Thomas Anderson, Benedict Cumberbatch and DP Janusz Kamiński for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. There was also a special award given to Criterion’s Maya Cade for her extraordinary work in curating the Black Film Archive. View the full … Read more
SKY RISERS Drones, helicopters, and fixed-wing aircraft are helping filmmakers create creative and spectacular shots that soar. We examine the developments in the ever-evolving world of aerial cinematography. Aerial cinematography is long-established in cinema history. From bi-plane dogfights in the 1927 WWI drama Wings to the first helicopter shot in 1945’s The Bandit of Sherwood, … Read more
ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe OBE, BSC (1913-2016) had a long and successful career working on many notable films. He was for many years the chief cameraman at Ealing Studios, shooting a number of their features, including some of their comedies, which included Man in the White Suit (1951), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). For several years, his … Read more
People Love Dinosaurs Oscar Faura / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom People Love Dinosaurs Oscar Faura / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Directed by J. A. Bayona, and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom marks another action-packed addition to the blockbuster dinosaur franchise. Made on a budget of around $170m, the fifth instalment of … Read more
Truth Will Out Janusz Kaminski ASC / The Post Truth Will Out Janusz Kaminski ASC / The Post BY: Ron Prince It wouldn’t have been awards season without Steven Spielberg somewhere in the mix, and his most recent movie The Post, shot on Kodak 35mm film by Janusz Kaminski ASC, was every inch a contender. … Read more
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced Oscar®-winner Angelina Jolie as the recipient of the 2018 ASC Board of Governors Award. The presentation will be made at the organization’s 32nd Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement on Feb. 17 at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom. The ASC Board of Governors Award is given … Read more
The Burning of Los Angeles Across the Pond / Mark London Williams The Burning of Los Angeles Across the Pond / Mark London Williams In what is still the greatest of Hollywood novels, Nathanael West’s Day of the Locust, the story ends with conflagration – quite literally “the burning of Los Angeles,” as both metaphor … Read more
Tall Order Janusz Kaminski / The BFG Tall Order Janusz Kaminski / The BFG BY: Ron Prince The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is the title of Roald Dahl’s classic 1982 children’s book about a sweet orphaned girl named Sophie, who one night is taken away from her dormitory to a faraway land … Read more
Thanks to directors including J.J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes and Paul Greengrass, moviemakers “do not have to worry about film going away anymore,” said Kodak CEO, Jeff Clarke, in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens was shot on … Read more
Inside Track Janusz Kaminski ASC / War Horse Inside Track Janusz Kaminski ASC / War Horse BY: David Heuring Janusz Kaminski and Steven Spielberg have collaborated on more than a dozen films. Their latest is War Horse, the story born as a children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was adapted into a successful theatrical production … Read more