Danish director returned to his indie roots amid personal tragedy to make his most life-affirming film, an Oscar contender for both best director and international feature.
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A look into how five feature contenders DP s captured chaos, the West and personal transformation through their distinctly different approaches to their nominated works.
The American Society of Cinematographers’ five feature nominees one of whom will become a first-time winner when the 35th annual ASC Awards are handed out virtually April 18 from the Society s Hollywood Clubhouse represent very distinct approaches to the medium. Although Joshua James Richards’
Nomadland and Dariusz Wolski s
News of the World were both shot on location in the American heartland, their styles are dramatically different. The field also includes Erik Messerschmidt’s old Hollywood, B&W take on
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How I Shot That: The Cameras and Cinematography Behind Sundance’s Documentary Films IndieWire 2/1/2021
When choosing cameras and lenses, nonfiction filmmakers are not only guided by the look, feel, and cinematic language they want to employ, but also by what their production demands and resources allow. Which is why in answering the question of why they picked the gear they used to shoot their Sundance nonfiction feature premieres, this year’s crop of cinematographers and directors also tell us how they shot their movies the challenges and choices, as well as their cinematic styles.
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Lens: Canon CN-E Cine primes; CN-E30-105mm zoom & L-series lenses.
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Making of The Midnight Sky : How George Clooney Battled Extreme Cold (and a Pandemic) to Make His Sci-Fi Epic
by Carolyn Giardina
December 22, 2020, 8:00am PST
Tackling his most ambitious movie yet, a meditation on loneliness and redemption, the actor-director endured a subzero shoot, mastered the latest VFX and navigated the COVID-19 lockdown.
On Iceland s Vatnajokull glacier, the largest ice cap in Europe, George Clooney found himself battling the elements in October 2019. With temperatures well below zero, the actor, playing a lonely witness to a global catastrophe, could barely see the crew or his diminutive co-star, 7-year-old Caoilinn Springall, as they worked under whiteout conditions. It wasn t a snowstorm, he recalls. There were these winds, sort of tornados, that would be coming toward you and we waited for them. We had whistles and we had string tied to ourselves so that we could never get too far apart, because you couldn t see your hand if