Cinematographer Zach Kuperstein was tapped by Boulderlight Pictures to lens the 2022 hit horror-thriller Barbarian, directed by Zach Cregger. The film follows the sinister happenings at and under 476 Barbary Street in a downtrodden neighborhood in the outskirts of Detroit. The genre-twisting narrative opens as Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) arrives to find a suspicious stranger (Bill Skarsgård as … Read more
In an email about his new Netflix show The Midnight Club, cinematographer James Kniest mentioned audiences “pine to be mesmerised”, which may not only include this fun-and-spooky collaboration with producer/director Mike Flanagan (who co-created with Leah Fong), but may explain much in terms of modern politics, sports fandom, and of course, film and TV watching. … Read more
When cinematographer Zach Kuperstein got the job to shoot writer-director Zach Cregger’s horror feature Barbarian, one of the first things he did was reach out to Light Iron senior colourist Sam Daley. The two had previously worked together on a short and three independent features — The Eyes of My Mother, The Vigil and Paper Spiders — but their collaborations … Read more
Here in British Cinematographer’s Hollywood bureau, we await our second Pfizer shot, while gearing up to attend – virtually, of course – the coming ASC and Oscar awards. Normally, this column would be reporting on how they were. You will have been well-versed in the nominees by the time this runs, naturally, and it would … Read more