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TheFilmBook
Preview of EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2019
The biggest and best cinematography festival in the world begins Saturday, Nov. 9 in Torun, Poland.
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Shot Craft
Sound Track
Discussing the key on-set collaboration between the sound department and the camera crew.
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John's Bailiwick
Gustave Caillebotte: The Floor Scrapers
Wandering through the Jeu de Paume galleries in the summer of 1962, I was totally gobsmacked — yes, that’s the right word — by a painting and a painter that seemed to belong to an era beyond the scope of the museum, an escapee from the future.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Optical Unconsciousness
When we talk about lenses for cinematography, most cinematographers are knowledgeable and opinionated.
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John's Bailiwick
Robert Frank in His Own Words
Anyone who has judged Robert Frank's The Americans as a dispassionate outsider’s view of humanity is likely to find the documentary Leaving Home, Coming Home almost unbearably personal and empathic.
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TheFilmBook
Loyalty, Progress and Art in Amsterdam
Reflecting upon the ASC motto at IBC in Amsterdam, after an ASC panel, and a cruise celebrating the 100 years of American Cinematographer.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Why We Don’t Fart in an Elevator
Our industry has adopted the opinion that, based on the legal argument of the “work for hire policy” and the contractual clause that “signs over all rights,” any principles of civility are out the window.
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John's Bailiwick
Steve Reich: WTC: 9/11, A Threnody for Four Strings
In 2009, the Kronos Quartet commissioned American composer Steve Reich to write a piece they would perform as a memorial to 9/11. A decade later, this piece is perhaps the most significant artistic work reflecting that tragedy.
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