Bad Turn Worse cinematographer Jeff Bierman
The quote above slips out of the mouth of teenage bookworm Sue (Mackenzie Davis) in the first post-credits scene of the new Texas-set neo noir Bad Turn Worse. It’s followed by a 1990s-era […]
Obvious Child cinematographer Chris Teague
Before lensing Obvious Child, director Gillian Robespierre and cinematographer Chris Teague looked at only a handful of films for reference. They peeked at Woody Allen’s 1970s and 1980s work and glanced at Lena […]
On Set with John Carpenter author Kim Gottlieb-Walker
During her careers as a photojournalist and unit stills photographer, Kim Gottlieb-Walker showed a Forrest Gump-esque knack (or Zelig-esque if you’re one of those contrarian Gump bashers) for finding cultural icons on the […]
God Help the Girl and Young Ones cinematographer Giles Nuttgens
It’s hard to imagine two more disparate films than God Help the Girl and Young Ones. The former – shot in Glasgow on 16mm – is anarchic, whimsical and vibrantly colored, […]
The Fragility of Optimism: An interview with Rich Hill director Andrew Droz Palermo
There are hundreds of towns like Rich Hill, Missouri crumbling throughout the American midwest – the strip malls that signaled comfortable suburbia now shuttered; the factories that paved the path to […]
The One I Love cinematographer Doug Emmett
No more low budget indie films. That’s what cinematographer Doug Emmett told himself. No more $100,00 budgets. No more 15-day shooting schedules. No more choosing lenses because they’re free and […]
The Sacrament cinematographer Eric Robbins
Ti West’s new thriller The Sacrament is presented to the audience as the edited footage of fictitious Vice Media correspondents detailing their harrowing encounter with a South American cult leader. […]
The Sacrament sound designer Graham Reznick
Filmmakers Graham Reznick and Ti West spent their childhoods like the majority of movie-obsessed kids raised in the 1980’s. They loitered in video stores. They gorged themselves on VHS horror […]
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