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Flashback: The Shining
In this archival story, John Alcott, BSC details his collaborations with Stanley Kubrick and Garrett Brown while making the classic 1980 horror yarn.
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Flashback: Ben-Hur (1959)
Go behind the scenes of this Oscar-winning Biblical epic that set new standards for lavish production — captured in anamorphic 65mm by Robert L. Surtees, ASC.
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Wrap Shot: In Cold Blood
Stark black-and-white photography by Conrad L. Hall, ASC added a grim sense of realism to this unsettling 1967 true-crime drama.
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Beyond The Frame: A League of Their Own
Miroslav Ondříček, ASC, ACK's camera team captures a tracking shot on star Geena Davis for this inspiring 1992 sports drama.
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Flashback: Chinatown
Described by its director as a “traditional detective story with a new, modern shape,” this 1930s thriller garnered 11 Academy Award nominations.
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Flashback: Sleepy Hollow
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC teams with director Tim Burton on a sumptuous adaptation of Washington Irving’s famous folktale.
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Flashback: All the President’s Men
This article from the AC archives — written by Gordon Willis, ASC — details photographing the classic 1976 political thriller.
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Wrap Shot: Despair
Shooting the 1978 period drama with cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, ASC, BVK and director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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