Cinematography
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How Blade Runner’s Costume Design Draws Attention to Its Women
There’s more complexity to the women of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, and it can be found in costume design.
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The Best Laid Floor Plans: ‘The Tenderness of Wolves’ and Space
A murderer’s house should feel like one. Based on the same real-life horrors as Fritz Lang’s M, 1973’s The Tenderness of Wolves, directed by Ulli…
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Henri Alekan and the Shifting Technology of Film Lighting
Cinematography owes much to the French master. Henri Alekan was the cinematographer behind movies like Jean Cocteau’s magical La Belle et la Bête, William Wyler’s…
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Short Film Friday: Modern Dance ‘Ascension’ Finds ‘Planet Earth’ Style
This short will put cinematography fans in helicopter heaven. Silent short films need to lean heavily on their cinematography because when all you have is…
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The Elegant Mechanics of the Focus Pull
How to shift an audience’s attention without changing the shot. The rack focus, adjusting the camera midshot to change what’s blurry and what’s not, is…
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Center Frame Centurions: ‘Ben-Hur’ and the Anamorphic Frame
Ben-Hur is shot wide, which gives it a specific and epic style. Ben-Hur was one of the first movies shot with MGM’s Camera 65, which…
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Apparate! Teleport into the Potterverse with the Franchise’s Best Cinematography
A supercut that casts a spell on you.
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The Best Cinematography of the 21st Century (So Far) in One Supercut
Did your favorite make the list?
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The Sickness in ‘A Cure for Wellness’
Visually immaculate. Intellectually drab.
