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Author: EDITOR
Posted: February 20, 2024, 5:31 pm

A new feature version of the Broadway hit (and, before that, Hollywood box office smash) recently debuted on screens: head back to high school with Mean Girls (the musical). by Pauline Rogers / Photos by JoJo Whilden/Paramount Pictures   Let’s face it: high school is war, and no one comes out unscathed. In 2004, film audiences were introduced to the Mark Waters-directed Hollywood smash hit Mean Girls, co-written by Tina Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and […]

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Posted: February 12, 2024, 8:29 pm

Local 600 camera teams head up to Park City with stories of reconciliation, remembrance, and renewal to unpack. by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of Sundance Institute Unless Otherwise Noted   It’s been a tough few years for the U.S. film and television industry, under siege from everything from a global pandemic to gun-safety violations on set that brought horrific consequences, to work stoppages and more. So it’s not surprising that many of the stories at Sundance 2024, the 40th […]

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Posted: January 16, 2024, 8:34 pm

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Posted: January 9, 2024, 5:02 pm

Director of Photography Jay Hunter, and his Guild camera team, shoot a “comedy with everything on it,” for a sequel to the whacky 1990’s feature, Good Burger by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Vanessa Clifton/Nickelodeon/Paramount+   “I’ve never shot a sequel for a beloved film before, and we took that task very seriously,” relates Guild Director of Photography Jay Hunter about Good Burger 2. The film is a follow-up to the insanely wacky 1997 feature, based on a Nickelodeon comedy […]

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Posted: December 14, 2023, 2:36 pm

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Posted: December 5, 2023, 4:08 pm

Pete Kozachik, ASC, was that rare filmmaker whose creativity and technical knowledge matched a drive for innovative storytelling. by Jimmy Matlosz / Photos Courtesy of Katy Kozachik/Anthony Scott   I met  Pete Kozachik, ASC, (a 30-year member of this Guild) when he hired me as an AC for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. To say I was lucky to work on a film with such artistry and staying power, under such a gifted gentleman (and me only three years […]

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Posted: November 16, 2023, 9:58 pm

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Posted: November 1, 2023, 6:33 pm

Oscar-winner Erik Messerschmidt, ASC, draws a bead on the mind of an assassin in David Fincher’s The Killer by Kevin Martin / Screengrabs Courtesy of Netflix    Consider this promotional material for the 1969 assassin-at-a-crossroads film Hard Contract: “Everything they do is 97 percent control and 3 percent emotion.” Compare that with the mantra from the nameless lead character in The Killer, director David Fincher’s newest feature for Netflix, shot by Oscar-winner Erik Messerschmidt, ASC. “Stick to your plan. Anticipate, don’t […]

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Posted: October 26, 2023, 3:47 pm

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Posted: October 4, 2023, 2:18 pm

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Director: Justine Triet
Cinematographer: Simon Beaufils
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Posted: March 29, 2024, 3:07 am

Director: Chuck Russell
Cinematographer: John R. Leonetti
Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 2:44 am

Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 2:41 am

Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Cinematographer: Paul Cameron
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 2:39 am

Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Posted: March 28, 2024, 2:35 am

Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a ...
Posted: March 28, 2024, 2:26 am

Director: Pablo Larraín
Cinematographer: Edward Lachman
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 7:36 am

Director: Keno Aladjuz
Cinematographer: Mans Buskop
When his father has to move back to Italy, Thijn is in conflict because he wants to stay with his friends in The Netherlands. Do his problems stay problems as he keeps living in his mind?
Posted: March 20, 2024, 7:23 am

Director: Wregas Bhanuteja
Cinematographer: Gunnar Nimpuno
After losing her scholarship when photos of her at a party surface online, a student pairs with a photocopy worker to piece together what happened.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 7:13 am

Director: J.A. Bayona
Cinematographer: Pedro Luque
The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 6:33 am

Director: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, René Guissart, Percy Hilburn, Karl Struss, Paul Kerschner
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:55 am

Director: David Fincher
Cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:39 am

Director: Sam Wrench
Experience the Eras Tour concert, performed by the one and only Taylor Swift.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:25 am

Director: William Oldroyd
Cinematographer: Ari Wegner
A woman's friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:23 am

Director: Noël Mitrani
Cinematographer: Bruno Philip
A former French soldier who fought in Afghanistan, lives in solitude in Montreal. The trauma caused by his memories of the conflict leads him towards an unhealthy relationship with women.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:19 am

Director: Shunji Iwai
Cinematographer: Noboru Shinoda
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point t...
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:14 am

Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Cinematographer: MacGregor
A CIA operative and his translator flee from special forces in Afghanistan after exposing a covert mission.
Posted: March 20, 2024, 5:07 am

Director: Tim Mielants
Cinematographer: Robrecht Heyvaert
Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp.
Posted: February 15, 2024, 11:54 am

Director: Celine Song
Cinematographer: Shabier Kirchner
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Posted: February 13, 2024, 12:30 pm

Posted: February 9, 2024, 2:50 am

Director: Christian Alvart
Cinematographer: Christian Alvart
Posted: February 9, 2024, 2:50 am

Director: Andy Goddard
Cinematographer: Daryl Hartwell, Chris Seager
Posted: February 9, 2024, 2:49 am

Director: Christian Alvart
Cinematographer: Christian Alvart
Posted: February 9, 2024, 2:49 am

Cinematographer: Marcell Rév
Posted: February 9, 2024, 2:49 am

Director: William Blevins
Cinematographer: William Blevins
Posted: January 27, 2024, 5:18 am

Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Posted: January 27, 2024, 5:13 am

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cinematographer: Thomas Hardmeier
A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.
Posted: January 26, 2024, 11:51 pm

Director: Bradley Cooper
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Posted: January 26, 2024, 3:52 pm

Director: George C. Wolfe
Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Posted: January 26, 2024, 2:43 pm

Director: Luca Larsen
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
Like any young adult, Suyin tries to find her place in the world and in her chaotic family. When she dreams away again on Christmas Eve, instead of helping the almost bankrupt family restaurant, her mother issues an ultimatum.
Posted: January 8, 2024, 8:23 am

Director: Richard J. Lewis, Jonathan Nolan, Frederick E.O. Toye, Vincenzo Natali, Stephen Williams, Paul Cameron, Jennifer Getzinger, Craig William Macneill, Jonny Campbell, Michelle MacLaren, Neil Marshall, Uta Briesewitz, Lisa Joy, Nicole Kassell, Tarik Saleh, Craig Zobel, Anna Foerster, Amanda Marsalis, Helen Shaver, Hanelle M. Culpepper, Meera Menon, Andrew Seklir
Cinematographer: John Grillo, Darran Tiernan, Brendan Galvin, Robert McLachlan, John Conroy, Peter Flinckenberg, Paul Cameron, Jeffrey Jur, Zoë White, David Franco, M. David Mullen, Matt Flannery
At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
Posted: January 7, 2024, 1:40 pm

Director: Richard J. Lewis
Cinematographer: Brendan Galvin
Two guests arrive at the park with different expectations; Maeve's emotions are tweaked; The Man in Black seeks help from a condemned man.
Posted: January 7, 2024, 1:38 pm

Director: Patrick J. Donnelly
Cinematographer: Patrick J. Donnelly
A wounded soldier returning form Iraq finds solace in the arms of a mysterious and beautiful woman.
Posted: January 5, 2024, 3:00 pm

Director: Ari Aster
Cinematographer: Pawel Pogorzelski
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.
Posted: January 2, 2024, 4:54 am

Director: Emerald Fennell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.
Posted: January 2, 2024, 2:58 am

Director: Darin Beckstead
Cinematographer: Brian Sullivan
A young director must find a way to make his movie after he accidentally breaks the main prop.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 8:20 am

Director: Alexander Popov
Cinematographer: Alexander Popov
A story about eternal search of the answer to the question 'Who am I' in the world of duality.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 6:28 am

Director: Taka Tsubota
Cinematographer: Kôhei Hirota
"30 years later, they strike again. This time, they took our youngest brother." When a family loses their 14 year old son in a kidnapping affected by an anti-Japan government agent, they must fight Japan's societal tendency to vic...
Posted: December 24, 2023, 6:09 am

Director: Park Chan-wook
Cinematographer: Chung-hoon Chung
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 2:24 am

Director: Benjamin R. Dover
Cinematographer: W.L. Walker
Mr. Thurman, the neighborhood grumpy old man, is tired of the Home Owners Association telling him how to cut his grass. After a call from the HOA, He gets into a brooding rage and goes outside to cut his grass. After getting wet f...
Posted: December 24, 2023, 1:09 am

Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 12:17 am

Director: Callum McLelland
Cinematographer: Callum McLelland
There's a killer on the loose, and there's not much time left to stop him. Will Detectives Patrick Knightley and Iain Wainwright, along with PC Terry Gallagher, PC Jon Banes and the Chief be able to catch him - or will he escape?
Posted: December 24, 2023, 12:13 am

Director: David Brooks
Cinematographer: Bengt Jonsson
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 12:09 am

Director: William Eubank
Cinematographer: Agustin Claramunt
A rookie air force combat controller and a seasoned drone pilot support a Delta Force team as they try to shift a mission gone wrong into a rescue operation.
Posted: December 24, 2023, 12:01 am

Director: Nicholas Connor
Cinematographer: Piero Cioffi
In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that some truths are more challenging than the past he's desperate to escape.
Posted: December 23, 2023, 11:54 pm

Director: Nicholas Connor
Cinematographer: Nicholas Connor
A young boy imagines visiting his sister to deal with her loss.
Posted: December 22, 2023, 4:16 am

Director: Nicholas Connor
Cinematographer: Marco Fanton
As Emma approaches adulthood, she tries to live an ordinary life and keep up with her late mother's expectations. However, her anxiety weighs over her, stopping her from enjoying the last few youthful years.
Posted: December 22, 2023, 4:01 am

Director: Wes Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Posted: December 21, 2023, 5:27 pm

Director: Sam Zvibleman
Witnessing their daughters reach a new low, Kathy and Yuki rally around them. At school, Maya and Anna receive an opportunity at redemption but it will come with a range of influences.
Posted: December 21, 2023, 9:12 am

Director: Iain B. MacDonald, Jim Field Smith, James Griffiths, Jeffrey Klarik
Cinematographer: Rob Kitzmann
A couple of British TV producers move to Hollywood to export their most popular series, and find it is not what they expected.
Posted: December 21, 2023, 1:26 am
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