Before we can even get on the record, before that most familiar robot warning of “This meeting is being recorded,” Frederick Elmes is swapping stories about Albert Brooks. After greeting me by name, he mentions a news piece I had written––a blurb about the recent Brooks documentary Defending My Life. He worked with Brooks some, he says, as a camera operator, goes on to speak generously and thoughtfully about the atmosphere the director cultivated and maintained on set, what that meant in turn to his work as a cinematographer, to the cast and crew more generally. I am sitting and grinning like an idiot, not unlike an ancillary Brooks character––maybe Bruno Kirby in Modern Romance. It strikes me that this moment represents Elmes’ approach to tending the moving image: careful research, a focus on listening, the sharing of ideas stemming from observation, and an immediate instinct for collaborative thinking.
- 4/11/2024
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
The list of directors who put their trust in Robby Müller could constitute a nice history of post-war cinema. A retrospective of films on which he served as Dp reflects accordingly––so’s the case with Metrograph’s “Robby Müller: Remain in Light,” which starts on Friday, September 29, and for which we’re glad to debut the trailer.
Contained therein are bits and pieces of what Metrograph attendees can anticipate. The series will offer a chance to see (among others) 24 Hour Party People, Alice in the Cities, The American Friend, Barfly, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Down by Law, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Kings of the Road, Korczak, Living the Light – Robby Müller, Mystery Train, Repo Man, Saint Jack, To Live and Die in L.A., When Pigs Fly, The Wrong Move, and Paris, Texas. The opening night will be anchored by “a panel on Müller’s continued influence on filmmaking,...
Contained therein are bits and pieces of what Metrograph attendees can anticipate. The series will offer a chance to see (among others) 24 Hour Party People, Alice in the Cities, The American Friend, Barfly, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Down by Law, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, Kings of the Road, Korczak, Living the Light – Robby Müller, Mystery Train, Repo Man, Saint Jack, To Live and Die in L.A., When Pigs Fly, The Wrong Move, and Paris, Texas. The opening night will be anchored by “a panel on Müller’s continued influence on filmmaking,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Director Luca Guadagnino discusses a few of his favorite films with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Bones And All (2022)
A Bigger Splash (2015)
Suspiria (2018)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Amarcord (1973) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Jason And The Argonauts (1963) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
After Hours (1985) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review
Journey To Italy (1954)
Empire Of The Sun (1987)
The Flower Of My Secret (1995)
The Last Emperor (1987) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
1900 (1976)
Last Tango In Paris (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Psycho (1960) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Suspiria (1977) – Edgar Wright’s U.S. and international trailer commentaries,...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Bones And All (2022)
A Bigger Splash (2015)
Suspiria (2018)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Amarcord (1973) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Jason And The Argonauts (1963) – Ernest Dickerson’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
After Hours (1985) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review
Journey To Italy (1954)
Empire Of The Sun (1987)
The Flower Of My Secret (1995)
The Last Emperor (1987) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
1900 (1976)
Last Tango In Paris (1972) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Psycho (1960) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Suspiria (1977) – Edgar Wright’s U.S. and international trailer commentaries,...
- 12/13/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Fans of Alex Cox’s Straight to Hell will be delighted to know that Jim Jarmusch has re-entered the universe of the Pogues–tangentially, at least. The Only Lovers Left Alive director has helmed the music video for Cat Power’s cover of A Pair of Brown Eyes, the 1985 single from the punk band.
Boasting quite a behind-the-scenes crew, the video was shot by Jarmusch and David Lynch collaborator Frederick Elmes and edited by Affonso Gonçalves, also a frequent collaborator with Jarmusch as well as Todd Haynes. Coming from Cat Power’s latest album Covers, the video captures a stripped-down performance with a fittingly hazy vision.
Watch below, along with a conversation from last fall featuring Jarmusch discussing his latest art exhibition.
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Boasting quite a behind-the-scenes crew, the video was shot by Jarmusch and David Lynch collaborator Frederick Elmes and edited by Affonso Gonçalves, also a frequent collaborator with Jarmusch as well as Todd Haynes. Coming from Cat Power’s latest album Covers, the video captures a stripped-down performance with a fittingly hazy vision.
Watch below, along with a conversation from last fall featuring Jarmusch discussing his latest art exhibition.
The post Watch Jim Jarmusch's Music Video for Cat Power's Pogues Cover A Pair of Brown Eyes first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 4/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Opposition to the Academy’s plan to award eight Oscars prior to the live telecast continues to grow, with more than 350 new names — including more than a dozen Oscar-winning editors, cinematographers and production designers — added to the petition sent last week to Academy president David Rubin urging a reversal of the plan.
Among the industry professionals signing are Oscar-winning cinematographers John Seale (“The English Patient”), John Toll (“Braveheart”) and Dean Semler (“Dances With Wolves”), and Oscar-winning editors Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch (“Star Wars”), Mikkel Neilsen (“The Sound of Metal”), Pietro Scalia (“JFK”) and Zach Staenberg (“The Matrix”).
Oscar-winning production designers Hannah Beachler (“Black Panther”), Barbara Ling (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Adam Stockhausen (“Grand Budapest Hotel”) and David and Sandy Wasco (“La La Land”) also signed on.
Cinematography will be presented during the live show, but editing and production design are among the eight awards to be presented during the 4 p.
Among the industry professionals signing are Oscar-winning cinematographers John Seale (“The English Patient”), John Toll (“Braveheart”) and Dean Semler (“Dances With Wolves”), and Oscar-winning editors Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch (“Star Wars”), Mikkel Neilsen (“The Sound of Metal”), Pietro Scalia (“JFK”) and Zach Staenberg (“The Matrix”).
Oscar-winning production designers Hannah Beachler (“Black Panther”), Barbara Ling (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), Adam Stockhausen (“Grand Budapest Hotel”) and David and Sandy Wasco (“La La Land”) also signed on.
Cinematography will be presented during the live show, but editing and production design are among the eight awards to be presented during the 4 p.
- 3/17/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Stephen Lighthill has been re-elected president of the American Society of Cinematographers. He was elevated to the post last year, having previously served as president from 2012-13. He will serve his next one-year term alongside vice presidents Amy Vincent, Steven Fierberg and John Simmons; treasurer Steven Poster; secretary Gregg Heschong, and sergeant-at-arms Jim Denault, who were elected by the Society’s board of governors.
“As we safely emerge from the pandemic, we plan to continue to share our expertise on best practices for remote solutions and virtual production in service to the artistic process of filmmaking,” Lighthill said. “We also remain focused on recruiting diverse and inclusive crews as well as supporting underrepresented filmmakers through our scholarship and mentorship programs.”
In a statement, the non-profit organization said that he and the board “have been guiding the Society through the challenging transitions necessitated by the global pandemic, focusing on helping members...
“As we safely emerge from the pandemic, we plan to continue to share our expertise on best practices for remote solutions and virtual production in service to the artistic process of filmmaking,” Lighthill said. “We also remain focused on recruiting diverse and inclusive crews as well as supporting underrepresented filmmakers through our scholarship and mentorship programs.”
In a statement, the non-profit organization said that he and the board “have been guiding the Society through the challenging transitions necessitated by the global pandemic, focusing on helping members...
- 5/24/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
One of EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s most closely watched sections in a world where streaming shows rule the roost is the First Look TV Pilots Competition and this year’s winner, the Amazon Original “Hunters,” kept veteran cinematographer Frederick Elmes on his toes, he says.
Elmes, with more than 60 director of photography credits spanning five decades, brought to the job a wealth of expertise, ranging from his early days capturing the haunting monochrome shadows of “Eraserhead” to Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” via “Blue Velvet” – a film that shares some of the hyper-reality qualities of “Hunters.”
The 90-minute opening episode of the show, “In the Belly of the Whale,” sets up eight characters who form a crack team of Nazi hunters in 1970s-era New York – led in the chase by a wise-cracking Al Pacino. It kept Elmes busy capturing distinctive performances, he says.
“We had to establish these characters quickly,...
Elmes, with more than 60 director of photography credits spanning five decades, brought to the job a wealth of expertise, ranging from his early days capturing the haunting monochrome shadows of “Eraserhead” to Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” via “Blue Velvet” – a film that shares some of the hyper-reality qualities of “Hunters.”
The 90-minute opening episode of the show, “In the Belly of the Whale,” sets up eight characters who form a crack team of Nazi hunters in 1970s-era New York – led in the chase by a wise-cracking Al Pacino. It kept Elmes busy capturing distinctive performances, he says.
“We had to establish these characters quickly,...
- 11/27/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Cinematographer Frederick Elmes, who was named as the winner of EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s First Look – TV Pilots Competition on Saturday for his work on the Amazon series “Hunters,” spoke about the show’s first episode “In the Belly of the Whale” during an online Q&a earlier this week. Elmes explained that the story – following a diverse band of Nazi hunters in New York in 1977, who discover that war criminals are conspiring to create a Fourth Reich – was actually based in reality.
“The stories were told to [the “Hunters” showrunner] David Weil by his grandmother, who [was a Holocaust survivor] and has experienced much of the turmoil of that era. It’s not based on any factual document, but it is researched by him and he was very concerned that his grandmother’s story should be told. That was really the motivating force for [director] Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and me – it was to get behind his vision,...
“The stories were told to [the “Hunters” showrunner] David Weil by his grandmother, who [was a Holocaust survivor] and has experienced much of the turmoil of that era. It’s not based on any factual document, but it is researched by him and he was very concerned that his grandmother’s story should be told. That was really the motivating force for [director] Alfonso Gomez-Rejon and me – it was to get behind his vision,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Indie ethos, costume drama and rich fantasy won the day at the world’s top cinematography event, EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, on Saturday, with Joshua James Richards’ naturalistic filming in Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” taking the Golden Frog plus Fipresci jury honors. The chronicle of life on the rough edges of America’s society among retirees living on the road in trailers, based on Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving in the Twenty-First Century,” is considered a strong Oscars contender.
The 28th edition of Camerimage also wrapped with its award to an actor of unique visual sensitivity for Johnny Depp, whose Japan-set war correspondent story “Minamata,” filmed by Benoit Delhomme, screened at the fest. Depp said in a letter to the fest that shooting with the celebrated Dp was “a sort of dance” encouraged by director Andrew Levitas, who “encouraged us to explore.”
Fest president Marek Zydowicz described the fest...
The 28th edition of Camerimage also wrapped with its award to an actor of unique visual sensitivity for Johnny Depp, whose Japan-set war correspondent story “Minamata,” filmed by Benoit Delhomme, screened at the fest. Depp said in a letter to the fest that shooting with the celebrated Dp was “a sort of dance” encouraged by director Andrew Levitas, who “encouraged us to explore.”
Fest president Marek Zydowicz described the fest...
- 11/21/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates | Written and Directed by David Lynch
David Lynch is well known for being a director who is not ashamed to go to some bizarre places, a man known for his surrealism, his specific and individualistic tone in works like Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and this, the feature debut of the legendary writer/director. It is a weird film, that’s for damn sure, but there’s something truly haunting about it too. Amongst the peculiar imagery lives an eerie undertone that became something of a staple, a trademark, for Lynch.
With Eraserhead, the film that preceded The Elephant Man, which arrived some three years later, Lynch delivered to the world a nightmare of visual terror, a tale of a factory worker named Henry Spencer who is driven slowly mad by the cries of his newborn mutant baby. This isn’t, even 43 years later,...
David Lynch is well known for being a director who is not ashamed to go to some bizarre places, a man known for his surrealism, his specific and individualistic tone in works like Twin Peaks, Lost Highway and this, the feature debut of the legendary writer/director. It is a weird film, that’s for damn sure, but there’s something truly haunting about it too. Amongst the peculiar imagery lives an eerie undertone that became something of a staple, a trademark, for Lynch.
With Eraserhead, the film that preceded The Elephant Man, which arrived some three years later, Lynch delivered to the world a nightmare of visual terror, a tale of a factory worker named Henry Spencer who is driven slowly mad by the cries of his newborn mutant baby. This isn’t, even 43 years later,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
To mark the release of Eraserhead on 19th October, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.
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David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.
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- 10/16/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For the ambitious productions in the current golden age of television, it's not uncommon to see filmmakers crossing over between features and shortform narratives — and that certainly holds true in cinematography.
This season's Emmy contenders include Frederick Elmes, whose credits with longtime collaborator David Lynch include Blue Velvet and who earlier this year received the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. He's also a 2017 Emmy winner for The Night Of. Among his fellow Emmy hopefuls are Jeff Cronenweth (son of Blade Runner Dp Jordan Cronenweth), a longtime collaborator with David Fincher who earned Oscar nominations for the ...
This season's Emmy contenders include Frederick Elmes, whose credits with longtime collaborator David Lynch include Blue Velvet and who earlier this year received the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. He's also a 2017 Emmy winner for The Night Of. Among his fellow Emmy hopefuls are Jeff Cronenweth (son of Blade Runner Dp Jordan Cronenweth), a longtime collaborator with David Fincher who earned Oscar nominations for the ...
For the ambitious productions in the current golden age of television, it's not uncommon to see filmmakers crossing over between features and shortform narratives — and that certainly holds true in cinematography.
This season's Emmy contenders include Frederick Elmes, whose credits with longtime collaborator David Lynch include Blue Velvet and who earlier this year received the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. He's also a 2017 Emmy winner for The Night Of. Among his fellow Emmy hopefuls are Jeff Cronenweth (son of Blade Runner Dp Jordan Cronenweth), a longtime collaborator with David Fincher who earned Oscar nominations for the ...
This season's Emmy contenders include Frederick Elmes, whose credits with longtime collaborator David Lynch include Blue Velvet and who earlier this year received the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement Award. He's also a 2017 Emmy winner for The Night Of. Among his fellow Emmy hopefuls are Jeff Cronenweth (son of Blade Runner Dp Jordan Cronenweth), a longtime collaborator with David Fincher who earned Oscar nominations for the ...
Early on in his career cinematographer Frederick Elmes worked as a camera operator for John Cassavetes and was a director of photography on David Lynch’s debut feature Eraserhead, laying the groundwork for a career that would absorb and expand upon both those influences. Like Cassavetes, Elmes is a filmmaker who knows how to frame and showcase great performances; his multiple collaborations with Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Tim Hunter have yielded career best work from Kevin Kline, Bill Murray, Joan Allen, Matt Dillon and many others. Yet like Lynch, Elmes is also supremely attuned to the visual properties of cinema […]...
- 4/30/2020
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Early on in his career cinematographer Frederick Elmes worked as a camera operator for John Cassavetes and was a director of photography on David Lynch’s debut feature Eraserhead, laying the groundwork for a career that would absorb and expand upon both those influences. Like Cassavetes, Elmes is a filmmaker who knows how to frame and showcase great performances; his multiple collaborations with Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch and Tim Hunter have yielded career best work from Kevin Kline, Bill Murray, Joan Allen, Matt Dillon and many others. Yet like Lynch, Elmes is also supremely attuned to the visual properties of cinema […]...
- 4/30/2020
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon ultimately decided to join Amazon Prime Video’s new drama “Hunters” as an executive producer and pilot director because of a personal connection to the material.
“I got a letter from David [Weil, the series creator] and I was really moved by that. The letter told me stories of his grandmother and how personal this story was to him. It was a beautiful script and was also very personal to me because it’s a story that belongs to anyone that feels like ‘an other,'” Gomez-Rejon tells Variety. The story of “immigrants in existence and justice,” he continues, “is a world that is very close to me because I’m from the Mexican border. He and I talked about the plight of the outsider and discovering their place in the world, or a world they could create that becomes a place of their own.”
Premiering Feb. 21 on Amazon, “Hunters” is set...
“I got a letter from David [Weil, the series creator] and I was really moved by that. The letter told me stories of his grandmother and how personal this story was to him. It was a beautiful script and was also very personal to me because it’s a story that belongs to anyone that feels like ‘an other,'” Gomez-Rejon tells Variety. The story of “immigrants in existence and justice,” he continues, “is a world that is very close to me because I’m from the Mexican border. He and I talked about the plight of the outsider and discovering their place in the world, or a world they could create that becomes a place of their own.”
Premiering Feb. 21 on Amazon, “Hunters” is set...
- 2/20/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
1917 was the top winner tonight at the 34th annual Asc Awards, as Roger Deakins took home the marquee Theatrical Release trophy from the American Society of Cinematographers. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, History’s Project Blue Book and AMC’s The Terror: Infamy took the top TV awards during the ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
Sam Mendes’ WWI film continued its steady award-season run, besting fellow nominees Ford v Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael), The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson) and Joker (Lawrence Sher). This was Deakins’ fifth Asc win and 16th nomination. He also was awarded the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Across town at about the same time Saturday, 1917 and director Sam Mendes won the top DGA Award, making both men the front-runners for the Oscars.
At the Asc Awards, Deakins took the stage with his wife Isabella Ellis,...
Sam Mendes’ WWI film continued its steady award-season run, besting fellow nominees Ford v Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael), The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson) and Joker (Lawrence Sher). This was Deakins’ fifth Asc win and 16th nomination. He also was awarded the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.
Across town at about the same time Saturday, 1917 and director Sam Mendes won the top DGA Award, making both men the front-runners for the Oscars.
At the Asc Awards, Deakins took the stage with his wife Isabella Ellis,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Denise Petski and Diane Haithman
- Deadline Film + TV
A veteran cinematographer well known for his contributions to independent cinema, Frederick Elmes has collaborated with directors including David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch.
Elmes, 73, who will receive the lifetime achievement award at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards on Jan. 25, talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his career and how Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) marked a "turning point."
Tell us about the look that you and David Lynch conceived for Blue Velvet.
We tried the whole idea of desaturating the color and shifting it in one direction or another. It wasn't helping ...
Elmes, 73, who will receive the lifetime achievement award at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards on Jan. 25, talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his career and how Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) marked a "turning point."
Tell us about the look that you and David Lynch conceived for Blue Velvet.
We tried the whole idea of desaturating the color and shifting it in one direction or another. It wasn't helping ...
- 1/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A veteran cinematographer well known for his contributions to independent cinema, Frederick Elmes has collaborated with directors including David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch.
Elmes, 73, who will receive the lifetime achievement award at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards on Jan. 25, talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his career and how Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) marked a "turning point."
Tell us about the look that you and David Lynch conceived for Blue Velvet.
We tried the whole idea of desaturating the color and shifting it in one direction or another. It wasn't helping ...
Elmes, 73, who will receive the lifetime achievement award at the American Society of Cinematographers Awards on Jan. 25, talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his career and how Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) marked a "turning point."
Tell us about the look that you and David Lynch conceived for Blue Velvet.
We tried the whole idea of desaturating the color and shifting it in one direction or another. It wasn't helping ...
- 1/25/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The features “Honeyland,” “Antopocene: The Human Epoch” and “Obscuro Barroco” were each recognized Monday with nominations for the brand-new documentary award from the American Society of Cinematographers’ Outstanding Achievement Awards.
The Asc also announced nominees in various TV categories for the 34th annual ceremony, which will be held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2020.
The Asc, which celebrated its 100th year in 2019, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the art of cinematography.
Also Read: Eddie Murphy to Receive Career Achievement Award from Critics Choice Association
New to this year’s ceremony is the Asc Documentary Award, which was added to recognize exceptional cinematography in non-fiction filmmaking.
First-time nominees this year are Fejmi Daut, Nicholas de Pencier, Evangelia Kranioti, Samir Ljuma, C. Kim Miles, Polly Morgan, Peter Robertson, Chris Seeger and Craig Wrobleski. This year’s honorees include Frederick Elmes, Donald A. Morgan,...
The Asc also announced nominees in various TV categories for the 34th annual ceremony, which will be held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2020.
The Asc, which celebrated its 100th year in 2019, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the art of cinematography.
Also Read: Eddie Murphy to Receive Career Achievement Award from Critics Choice Association
New to this year’s ceremony is the Asc Documentary Award, which was added to recognize exceptional cinematography in non-fiction filmmaking.
First-time nominees this year are Fejmi Daut, Nicholas de Pencier, Evangelia Kranioti, Samir Ljuma, C. Kim Miles, Polly Morgan, Peter Robertson, Chris Seeger and Craig Wrobleski. This year’s honorees include Frederick Elmes, Donald A. Morgan,...
- 11/25/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
The American Society of Cinematographers will honor Frederic Elmes with a lifetime achievement award.
The Asc is also honoring Donald A. Morgan with the career achievement in television award, Bruno Delbonnel with the international award; and Don McCuaig with the presidents awards.
The accolades will be presented at the annual Asc awards gala on Jan. 25, 2020, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
“These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers,” said Asc President Kees van Ooostrum. “They’ve amazed audiences with their compelling visuals and inspired peers and emerging filmmakers.”
Elmes collaborated with David Lynch on “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart” and John Cassavetes on “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” and “Opening Night. His feature film work includes multiple films for directors Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch.
He won Independent Spirit Awards for “Night on Earth...
The Asc is also honoring Donald A. Morgan with the career achievement in television award, Bruno Delbonnel with the international award; and Don McCuaig with the presidents awards.
The accolades will be presented at the annual Asc awards gala on Jan. 25, 2020, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
“These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers,” said Asc President Kees van Ooostrum. “They’ve amazed audiences with their compelling visuals and inspired peers and emerging filmmakers.”
Elmes collaborated with David Lynch on “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart” and John Cassavetes on “The Killing of a Chinese Bookie” and “Opening Night. His feature film work includes multiple films for directors Ang Lee and Jim Jarmusch.
He won Independent Spirit Awards for “Night on Earth...
- 10/23/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The American Society of Cinematographers on Wednesday said that four veteran directors of photography will be honored at its upcoming Asc Awards gala.
The organization will recognize Frederick Elmes with its Lifetime Achievement Award, Donald A. Morgan with the Career Achievement in Television Award, Bruno Delbonnel with the International Award and Don McCuaig with the Presidents Award. The honors will be handed out at the annual Asc awards gala Jan. 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
"These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers," Asc ...
The organization will recognize Frederick Elmes with its Lifetime Achievement Award, Donald A. Morgan with the Career Achievement in Television Award, Bruno Delbonnel with the International Award and Don McCuaig with the Presidents Award. The honors will be handed out at the annual Asc awards gala Jan. 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
"These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers," Asc ...
- 10/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The American Society of Cinematographers on Wednesday said that four veteran directors of photography will be honored at its upcoming Asc Awards gala.
The organization will recognize Frederick Elmes with its Lifetime Achievement Award, Donald A. Morgan with the Career Achievement in Television Award, Bruno Delbonnel with the International Award and Don McCuaig with the Presidents Award. The honors will be handed out at the annual Asc awards gala Jan. 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
"These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers," Asc ...
The organization will recognize Frederick Elmes with its Lifetime Achievement Award, Donald A. Morgan with the Career Achievement in Television Award, Bruno Delbonnel with the International Award and Don McCuaig with the Presidents Award. The honors will be handed out at the annual Asc awards gala Jan. 25 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.
"These filmmakers have contributed greatly to the legacy of cinematography over the course of their ongoing careers," Asc ...
- 10/23/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Universal City, California, July 25, 2019 – A quiet town finds itself under attack from the undead with the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled in the comedy, The Dead Don’T Die, arriving on Digital on September 3, 2019 and on Blu-rayTM, DVD and On Demand on September 10, 2019 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Showcasing exclusive bonus features not seen in theaters including insight from the cast and filmmakers, as well as a closer look at the making of the film that takes fans deeper into this “giddy apocalypse with no way out”. Starring Academy Award®† winner Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny, The Dead Don’T Die is a “hilariously fun” and irreverent film unlike any you’ve seen before.
Directed by indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’T Die features a powerhouse of an ensemble cast including Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver (Stranger than Paradise), RZA,...
Directed by indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’T Die features a powerhouse of an ensemble cast including Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver (Stranger than Paradise), RZA,...
- 7/26/2019
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Jim Jarmusch’s comic deadpan seems ideally suited to the zombie genre. So who better than this indie hipster, who’s been an avatar of cool from Stranger Than Paradise to Paterson, to take a stroll with the walking dead? Having tackled vampires in high style with 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, the undead are a logical next step. And yet The Dead Don’t Die, which opened the Cannes Film Festival with a whimper last month, feels like a pale facsimile of Jarmusch. There are a few lovely, random...
- 6/11/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Blue Velvet
Blu ray
Criterion
1986 / 2.35 : 1 / 120 Min.
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern
Cinematography by Frederick Elmes
Directed by David Lynch
Voyeurs come in all shapes and sizes, from wallflowers like Russ Meyer’s Immoral Mr. Teas to the handsome but lethal pin-up artist of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom – all of them slackers compared to Jeff Jeffries, the sleepless shutterbug played by James Stewart in Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
A house-bound photo-journalist obsessed with the strange behavior of his reclusive neighbor, Jeffries stops at nothing in his compulsive pursuit. This being a Hitchcock film, what drives Jeff’s curiosity is a mix of fear and desire that in the end implicates everyone, including the audience.
Jeffries’s boyish smile disguised his darker inclinations – a notion Mel Brooks had in mind when he christened David Lynch “Jimmy Stewart from Mars” – an apt characterization of the director as...
Blu ray
Criterion
1986 / 2.35 : 1 / 120 Min.
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern
Cinematography by Frederick Elmes
Directed by David Lynch
Voyeurs come in all shapes and sizes, from wallflowers like Russ Meyer’s Immoral Mr. Teas to the handsome but lethal pin-up artist of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom – all of them slackers compared to Jeff Jeffries, the sleepless shutterbug played by James Stewart in Hitchcock’s Rear Window.
A house-bound photo-journalist obsessed with the strange behavior of his reclusive neighbor, Jeffries stops at nothing in his compulsive pursuit. This being a Hitchcock film, what drives Jeff’s curiosity is a mix of fear and desire that in the end implicates everyone, including the audience.
Jeffries’s boyish smile disguised his darker inclinations – a notion Mel Brooks had in mind when he christened David Lynch “Jimmy Stewart from Mars” – an apt characterization of the director as...
- 6/8/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
After taking a unique storytelling angle on vampires with Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch is now turning his attention to zombies in The Dead Don't Die, and to celebrate the final days of Zombie Awareness Month, we've been provided with a set of exclusive zombie facts from the new horror comedy with helpful reminders on how to survive the living dead should you find yourself in the midst of a zombie uprising.
You can celebrate the end of Zombie Awareness Month with The Dead Don't Die zombie facts below, check here for our previous coverage of the zombie comedy, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the movie, including our reactions from the film's Us premiere at the Overlook Film Festival.
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and produced by Joshua Astrachan and Carter Logan, The Dead Don't Die stars "the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled,...
You can celebrate the end of Zombie Awareness Month with The Dead Don't Die zombie facts below, check here for our previous coverage of the zombie comedy, and stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the movie, including our reactions from the film's Us premiere at the Overlook Film Festival.
Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, and produced by Joshua Astrachan and Carter Logan, The Dead Don't Die stars "the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled,...
- 5/29/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“Don’T Look At Me!”
By Raymond Benson
“Don’t look at me!” shouts Frank Booth, the sociopath played by Dennis Hopper, but that, of course, is exactly what David Lynch wants you to do.
Lynch was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for this singular, extraordinary film that shook audiences around the world in 1986, and it’s the picture that solidified the filmmaker as perhaps the heir to the surrealists of the 1920s. It’s a polarizing film that makes audiences uncomfortable and sometimes outraged, and yet it possesses signature stylistic and thematic aspects to which Lynch has returned many times in such fare as the more mainstream (but also surreal) television series Twin Peaks, and the dreamlike fugues of pictures like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.
After the box-office and critical failure of the sci-fi extravaganza, Dune (1984), Lynch exercised his option with producer Dino De Laurentiis to make a smaller,...
By Raymond Benson
“Don’t look at me!” shouts Frank Booth, the sociopath played by Dennis Hopper, but that, of course, is exactly what David Lynch wants you to do.
Lynch was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for this singular, extraordinary film that shook audiences around the world in 1986, and it’s the picture that solidified the filmmaker as perhaps the heir to the surrealists of the 1920s. It’s a polarizing film that makes audiences uncomfortable and sometimes outraged, and yet it possesses signature stylistic and thematic aspects to which Lynch has returned many times in such fare as the more mainstream (but also surreal) television series Twin Peaks, and the dreamlike fugues of pictures like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.
After the box-office and critical failure of the sci-fi extravaganza, Dune (1984), Lynch exercised his option with producer Dino De Laurentiis to make a smaller,...
- 5/28/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
It’s been the talk of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Jim Jarmusch’s latest film has been a rousing success as the opening night film.
The Telegraph gave the film 4 stars in it review calling it “a winningly eccentric way to usher in the zombie apocalypse.”
See all the tweets below.
Grâce à l'opération de retransmission en simultanée de la Cérémonie et du film d’ouverture dans les salles françaises, l’avant-première de The Dead Don't Die de Jim Jarmusch a déjà atteint 35K entrées hier soir ! Un record ! #Competition @canalplus @UniversalFR @FocusFeatures pic.twitter.com/yxEWNIKpwl
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 15, 2019 Tweets by thedeaddontdie
The Dead Don’T Die – the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Selena Gomez, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat and Tom Waits.
The Telegraph gave the film 4 stars in it review calling it “a winningly eccentric way to usher in the zombie apocalypse.”
See all the tweets below.
Grâce à l'opération de retransmission en simultanée de la Cérémonie et du film d’ouverture dans les salles françaises, l’avant-première de The Dead Don't Die de Jim Jarmusch a déjà atteint 35K entrées hier soir ! Un record ! #Competition @canalplus @UniversalFR @FocusFeatures pic.twitter.com/yxEWNIKpwl
— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) May 15, 2019 Tweets by thedeaddontdie
The Dead Don’T Die – the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Selena Gomez, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat and Tom Waits.
- 5/15/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
IndieWire reached out to the cinematographers whose feature films are premiering at the Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the visual language of their films.
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition & Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard & Critics’ Week
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition
“Atlantics”
Dir: Mati Diop, DoP: Claire Mathon
Format: Digital, 1.66 aspect ratio, post production was done in 2K
Camera: Red Epic 5K and Panasonic Varicam35 4K
Lens: Angenieux 45/120 and 25/250, and Zeiss lenses T1.3
Mathon: We chose the Red Epic to shoot daytime, to give romance to images that were captured in a documentary way, and to enhance the sun-drenched sets. We wanted to make a film that was visually arresting but remained very grounded in reality...
Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)
Page 2: Out of Competition & Special Screenings
Page 3: Un Certain Regard & Critics’ Week
Page 4: Directors’ Fortnight
(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)
Competition
“Atlantics”
Dir: Mati Diop, DoP: Claire Mathon
Format: Digital, 1.66 aspect ratio, post production was done in 2K
Camera: Red Epic 5K and Panasonic Varicam35 4K
Lens: Angenieux 45/120 and 25/250, and Zeiss lenses T1.3
Mathon: We chose the Red Epic to shoot daytime, to give romance to images that were captured in a documentary way, and to enhance the sun-drenched sets. We wanted to make a film that was visually arresting but remained very grounded in reality...
- 5/14/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
The 72nd Edition of the Cannes International Film Festival has set its opening night film as Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die.”
Jarmusch’s zombie comedy stars Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton. It will make its world premiere at the festival on Tuesday, May 14 on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
“The Dead Don’t Die” will also play in competition for the Palme d’Or.
Also Read: 'Capernaum' Director Nadine Labaki Named 2019 Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury President
Read the film’s official description below:
In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why. News reports are scary and scientists are concerned. But no one foresees the strangest and most...
Jarmusch’s zombie comedy stars Adam Driver, Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton. It will make its world premiere at the festival on Tuesday, May 14 on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
“The Dead Don’t Die” will also play in competition for the Palme d’Or.
Also Read: 'Capernaum' Director Nadine Labaki Named 2019 Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury President
Read the film’s official description below:
In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why. News reports are scary and scientists are concerned. But no one foresees the strangest and most...
- 4/10/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Ah yes, lightning in a bottle – that elusive moment when the stars align with the zeitgeist, where talent meets opportunity in the arts and a work is forever cherished through time. And then there’s Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972), Ed Adlum’s magnum opus of killer druids draining the blood supply of a group of rural New Yorkers in search of the right host to resurrect their long dormant queen. But for fans of schlock and hilarity, Invasion is that lightning, and Severin Films has captured it with their beautiful Blu of this epic oddity.
The lightning starts with Cashbox magazine employee Ed Adlum raising money through his contacts to make a horror film. He raises $24,000, and he and fellow Cashbox-er Ed Kelleher set out to write the film with the title as inspiration. Except their plan for aliens becomes cost prohibitive, so they change it to druids, because...
The lightning starts with Cashbox magazine employee Ed Adlum raising money through his contacts to make a horror film. He raises $24,000, and he and fellow Cashbox-er Ed Kelleher set out to write the film with the title as inspiration. Except their plan for aliens becomes cost prohibitive, so they change it to druids, because...
- 3/29/2019
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Before February draws to a close, we have one more batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases coming our way, including the Oscar-nominated Border, which this writer loved. There are also a ton of great cult titles that are finally getting their dues this week, including Mausoleum, Invasion of the Blood Farmers, Wacko, Next of Kin, and for all you classic sci-fi fans, Scream Factory is showing some love to The Mole People as well, and if you missed it in theaters, The Possession of Hannah Grace comes home on Tuesday, too.
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for February 26th include Willard (2003), Party Line, Bullitt County, Atone, and Battle for the Lost Planet/Mutant War.
Border
Tina (Eva Melander) is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man (Eero Milonoff) with a smell that confounds her detection,...
Other Blu-ray and DVD releases for February 26th include Willard (2003), Party Line, Bullitt County, Atone, and Battle for the Lost Planet/Mutant War.
Border
Tina (Eva Melander) is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man (Eero Milonoff) with a smell that confounds her detection,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Shifting sideways from the extensionalism lethargy found vampires in goth tweaked Only Lovers Left Alive to possibly reanimated corpses that haven’t said their last word with The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch proposes a zombie comedy with familiar Jarmusch film players in Tilda Swinton (Broken Flowers) and Adam Driver. Currently sans plot description, his fifteen feature film might not reinvent the zombie genre, but it will certainly reinvigorate it with a certain melancholy, awesome track listing (perhaps some Tom Waits as he has a bit part here) and playful photography by veteran cinematographer Frederick Elmes (Paterson).…...
- 2/9/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
"Therefore, we warn you: don't eat before you see Invasion of the Blood Farmers." That's one of the ominous lines spoken in the trailer for Invasion of the Blood Farmers, and if you missed this one on the drive-in screen back in the ’70s, Severin Films has you covered with their February 26th Blu-ray release of the 1972 horror film... just think twice about eating popcorn while you watch it.
Invasion of the Blood Farmers Blu-ray: "This item is a Pre-order with a Release Date of 2/26/19. Any additional items purchased alongside this one will not be shipped out until everything is in hand at our shipping facility.
The Invasion Of The Blood Bundle Includes Our Brand New Invasion Of The Blood Farmers Blu-ray, Limited Edition Patch, And 18X24 Poster Signed By The Director.
The Blu-ray is Region Free.
Please Note: The Patch Photo Is A Mock Up. The Signed Poster Comes Rolled In A Tube.
Invasion of the Blood Farmers Blu-ray: "This item is a Pre-order with a Release Date of 2/26/19. Any additional items purchased alongside this one will not be shipped out until everything is in hand at our shipping facility.
The Invasion Of The Blood Bundle Includes Our Brand New Invasion Of The Blood Farmers Blu-ray, Limited Edition Patch, And 18X24 Poster Signed By The Director.
The Blu-ray is Region Free.
Please Note: The Patch Photo Is A Mock Up. The Signed Poster Comes Rolled In A Tube.
- 1/16/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
One of the oldies celebrated by lovers of ’80s fare, Martha Coolidge’s ode to pampered teens in La La Land has aged extremely well. It’s still fairly representative of reality, but the romantic fairy tale angle is what keeps it afloat. Nicolas Cage’s unguarded vulnerability and Deborah Foreman’s infectious smile win the day — we like these kids, even if they’re somewhat idealized.
Valley Girl
Blu-ray
Shout Select
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 30, 2018 / 34.93
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye, Heidi Holicker, Michelle Meyrink, Tina Theberge, Lee Purcell, Richard Sanders, Colleen Camp, Frederic Forrest, David Ensor, The Plimsouls, Josie Cotton.
Cinematography: Frederick Elmes
Film Editor: Éva Gárdos
Original Music: Mark Levinthal, Scott Wilk
Produced and Written by Andrew Lane, Wayne Crawford
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Women directors of the 1980s didn’t have a smooth ride, as can be attested...
Valley Girl
Blu-ray
Shout Select
1983 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date October 30, 2018 / 34.93
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye, Heidi Holicker, Michelle Meyrink, Tina Theberge, Lee Purcell, Richard Sanders, Colleen Camp, Frederic Forrest, David Ensor, The Plimsouls, Josie Cotton.
Cinematography: Frederick Elmes
Film Editor: Éva Gárdos
Original Music: Mark Levinthal, Scott Wilk
Produced and Written by Andrew Lane, Wayne Crawford
Directed by Martha Coolidge
Women directors of the 1980s didn’t have a smooth ride, as can be attested...
- 10/27/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Rachel Morrison, cinematographer on films like “Black Panther” and “Mudbound,” will receive the 2018 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni medal from the American Film Institute.
Morrison made history this year as the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work in “Mudbound.” She was also the first woman to shoot a Marvel Cinematic Universe film with “Black Panther.”
Her other credits include “Fruitvale Station,” “Cake,” “Dope,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “Confirmation.”
Also Read: 'Black Panther' Cinematographer Rachel Morrison on Hollywood's Lame 'Excuse' for Not Hiring Women
Morrison, a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, has won a New York Film Critics Circle Award; she has also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy and an Acd Award.
The Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal honors creative talents who embody the qualities of the filmmaker, who earned a total of 28 Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Director for “Patton” in 1970.
Also Read: Oscars Nominate First Female Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison for 'Mudbound'
Previous recipients include Patty Jenkins, Darren Aronofsky, Terrence Malick, Amy Heckerling, Anne Garefino, Steven Rosenblum, Todd Field and most recently, Frederick Elmes.
The presentation is set to take place at the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to George Clooney in Hollywood, California on June 7.
Read original story ‘Black Panther’ Cinematographer Rachel Morrison to Be Honored by AFI At TheWrap...
Morrison made history this year as the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work in “Mudbound.” She was also the first woman to shoot a Marvel Cinematic Universe film with “Black Panther.”
Her other credits include “Fruitvale Station,” “Cake,” “Dope,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and “Confirmation.”
Also Read: 'Black Panther' Cinematographer Rachel Morrison on Hollywood's Lame 'Excuse' for Not Hiring Women
Morrison, a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, has won a New York Film Critics Circle Award; she has also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy and an Acd Award.
The Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal honors creative talents who embody the qualities of the filmmaker, who earned a total of 28 Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Director for “Patton” in 1970.
Also Read: Oscars Nominate First Female Cinematographer: Rachel Morrison for 'Mudbound'
Previous recipients include Patty Jenkins, Darren Aronofsky, Terrence Malick, Amy Heckerling, Anne Garefino, Steven Rosenblum, Todd Field and most recently, Frederick Elmes.
The presentation is set to take place at the AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to George Clooney in Hollywood, California on June 7.
Read original story ‘Black Panther’ Cinematographer Rachel Morrison to Be Honored by AFI At TheWrap...
- 4/26/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
“You seem to find what’s appropriate for the worlds you create. A lot of your songs are like little films to me.”—Jim Jarmusch to Tom Waits1In late October of 2013 I arrived at the Orly airport in Paris via Rome and took a taxi to the apartment my friend and I had arranged to rent in the Bastille arrondissement of the city. My cab driver was a friendly middle-aged man of Algerian descent who immediately made me feel at ease, chatting cheerfully on the drive and offering me dates from a brown paper bag. He spoke little English and my French was woeful, a linguistic Frankenstein pieced together from the French songs and films I love, and my attempts at “French-ifying” my knowledge of basic conversational Italian. And yet, despite our language barrier, through humorous gesticulations and the odd familiar word I learnt that the dates were from his garden,...
- 1/30/2018
- MUBI
As expected, the Creative Arts Emmy competition Sunday turned out to be a sci-fi smackdown between Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and HBO’s “Westworld,” and each split the night with five awards apiece.
The Duffer Brothers’ ’80s homage to Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, “Stranger Things” won for outstanding editing, main title theme music, main title design, sound editing, and casting. The Jonathan Nolan/ Lisa Joy sci-fi/western, “Westworld,” earned outstanding special visual effects (the domain of “Game of Thrones” five years running), makeup (non-prosthetic), hairstyling, sound mixing, and creative achievement in interactive media.
However, if recent history proves a reliable harbinger, “Stranger Things” has the edge in the race for next Sunday’s Outstanding Series competition because of its editing victory. That’s because the last five outstanding editing winners have also taken home the big prize.
Read More:News Film TV Awards Toolkit More Search ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,...
The Duffer Brothers’ ’80s homage to Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, “Stranger Things” won for outstanding editing, main title theme music, main title design, sound editing, and casting. The Jonathan Nolan/ Lisa Joy sci-fi/western, “Westworld,” earned outstanding special visual effects (the domain of “Game of Thrones” five years running), makeup (non-prosthetic), hairstyling, sound mixing, and creative achievement in interactive media.
However, if recent history proves a reliable harbinger, “Stranger Things” has the edge in the race for next Sunday’s Outstanding Series competition because of its editing victory. That’s because the last five outstanding editing winners have also taken home the big prize.
Read More:News Film TV Awards Toolkit More Search ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,...
- 9/11/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Richard Price and Steven Zaillian’s “The Night Of” balanced cinematic production values with the miniseries capacity to dig deeper into details that are necessary for delivering the procedural goods.
The HBO miniseries was like “The Verdict” meets “Law and Order,” with its cultural and political overtones, exploring the ugliness of New York City’s criminal justice system, where it’s a matter of survival for everyone.
“The Night Of” is also Hitchcockian in its destruction of innocence and freedom. What starts as a sexual fantasy for Pakistani-American college student Naz Khan (Riz Ahmed) – who picks up an alluring young woman, Andrea (Sofia Black-d’Elia), in his father’s cab – ends in a surreal nightmare when he wakes up and finds her brutally stabbed to death. Khan is an easy suspect for Detective Box (Bill Camp) and a gift for struggling attorney John Stone (Emmy-nominated John Turturro).
“The Night Of...
The HBO miniseries was like “The Verdict” meets “Law and Order,” with its cultural and political overtones, exploring the ugliness of New York City’s criminal justice system, where it’s a matter of survival for everyone.
“The Night Of” is also Hitchcockian in its destruction of innocence and freedom. What starts as a sexual fantasy for Pakistani-American college student Naz Khan (Riz Ahmed) – who picks up an alluring young woman, Andrea (Sofia Black-d’Elia), in his father’s cab – ends in a surreal nightmare when he wakes up and finds her brutally stabbed to death. Khan is an easy suspect for Detective Box (Bill Camp) and a gift for struggling attorney John Stone (Emmy-nominated John Turturro).
“The Night Of...
- 7/25/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Cinematographers guild board also votes in officers for 2017-18 term.
The American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) has re-elected Kees van Oostrum for a second term as president.
The Asc board met on Monday night and also voted in the officers for the 2017-18 term.
They are: Bill Bennett, John Simmons and Cynthia Pusheck as vice-presidents; Levie Isaacks as treasurer; David Darby as secretary; and Isidore Mankofsky as sergeant-at-arms.
“As an organisation, we are focused on education, international outreach, diversity and preservation of our heritage,” van Oostrum said. “Over the past year, we expanded our Master Class programme internationally to Toronto and China. We launched a Chinese version of American Cinematographer magazine. We are preparing for a third International Cinematography Summit, which sees attendees from several other societies around the world.
“And our Vision Committee has many initiatives planned after presenting two very successful ‘Day of Inspiration’ events in Los Angeles and New York, which were designed...
The American Society of Cinematographers (Asc) has re-elected Kees van Oostrum for a second term as president.
The Asc board met on Monday night and also voted in the officers for the 2017-18 term.
They are: Bill Bennett, John Simmons and Cynthia Pusheck as vice-presidents; Levie Isaacks as treasurer; David Darby as secretary; and Isidore Mankofsky as sergeant-at-arms.
“As an organisation, we are focused on education, international outreach, diversity and preservation of our heritage,” van Oostrum said. “Over the past year, we expanded our Master Class programme internationally to Toronto and China. We launched a Chinese version of American Cinematographer magazine. We are preparing for a third International Cinematography Summit, which sees attendees from several other societies around the world.
“And our Vision Committee has many initiatives planned after presenting two very successful ‘Day of Inspiration’ events in Los Angeles and New York, which were designed...
- 6/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Updated, May 24, 9:32 Am: Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Steve Martin, Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon will help honor the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Diane Keaton at the gala tribute on Thursday, June 8, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. In addition, cinematographer Frederick Elmes who has worked with everyone from David Lynch to Ang Lee, will be presented with the 27th annual Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal. The AFI Life Achievement Award…...
- 5/24/2017
- Deadline
Updated, May 24, 9:32 Am: Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Steve Martin, Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon will help honor the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award recipient Diane Keaton at the gala tribute on Thursday, June 8, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. In addition, cinematographer Frederick Elmes who has worked with everyone from David Lynch to Ang Lee, will be presented with the 27th annual Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal. The AFI Life Achievement Award…...
- 5/24/2017
- Deadline TV
David Lynch’s visionary black comedy was shot in sunny California but the bleakly surreal black and white imagery, full of smoking chimneys and dilapidated walk-ups, suggests a nightmare factory town by way of Diane Arbus. The film has such a uniquely grungy beauty (courtesy of Frederick Elmes’ photography) and featured such eccentrically empathetic characters (in particular the woebegone hero played by Jack Nance) that the prescient Mel Brooks took a chance on the unknown Lynch and hired him to direct The Elephant Man. Commensurate with its “hand-made” origins, Eraserhead never had a proper theatrical release trailer, so we’re presenting the trailer for the dvd release.
- 5/24/2017
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Truth: Women are definitely not the only people who care about their hair. Not convinced? Watch Rag & Bone films latest unscripted short Hair, which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival starring Golden Globe nominated actor John Turturro and two-time Emmy Winner Bobby Cannavale.
The mini movie, which was shot in a Brooklyn barbershop by Fred Elmes, pokes fun at the particularity men feel towards their hair. And trust us when we say you’ll be surprised to see how much guys focus on their strands.
“It’s a short comedy about men’s vanity,” Turturro said in a...
The mini movie, which was shot in a Brooklyn barbershop by Fred Elmes, pokes fun at the particularity men feel towards their hair. And trust us when we say you’ll be surprised to see how much guys focus on their strands.
“It’s a short comedy about men’s vanity,” Turturro said in a...
- 5/2/2017
- by Kaitlyn Frey
- PEOPLE.com
1972 alumnus has worked with David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch.
Cinematographer Frederick Elmes will receive the AFI’s 2017 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.
The honour recognises the “extraordinary creative talents of an AFI alumnus or alumna who embodies the qualities of filmmaker Franklin J. Schaffner: talent, taste, dedication and commitment to quality storytelling in film and television.”
Elmes’s credits include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, The Ice Storm, Broken Flowers, and River’s Edge, among others.
The presentation will take place at the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton in Hollywood on June 8.
Elmes collaborated with Keaton on her 1987 directorial debut Heaven and has earned a Primetime Emmy nomination, two Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York Film Critics Circle Award, among other accolades.
Prior recipients of the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal include Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Homeland director Lesli Link Glatter, Wonder Woman director...
Cinematographer Frederick Elmes will receive the AFI’s 2017 Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal.
The honour recognises the “extraordinary creative talents of an AFI alumnus or alumna who embodies the qualities of filmmaker Franklin J. Schaffner: talent, taste, dedication and commitment to quality storytelling in film and television.”
Elmes’s credits include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, The Ice Storm, Broken Flowers, and River’s Edge, among others.
The presentation will take place at the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Diane Keaton in Hollywood on June 8.
Elmes collaborated with Keaton on her 1987 directorial debut Heaven and has earned a Primetime Emmy nomination, two Film Independent Spirit Awards and a New York Film Critics Circle Award, among other accolades.
Prior recipients of the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal include Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Homeland director Lesli Link Glatter, Wonder Woman director...
- 4/25/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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Though it wasn’t a deafening defeat, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters wasn’t a resounding success, either. All sexist nonsense aside, the film performed only average at the box office, casting doubt upon the future of the new franchise it was supposed to kick off. And while it seems unlikely we’ll be seeing the women of last summer’s movie suit up again anytime soon, we do know that the show will go on, in a sense.
In an interview with io9, the original film’s director and new franchise producer Ivan Reitman admitted that while the future is still a little up in the air, he’s got a plan to get it going forward.
We jumped into an animated film [after the last movie] and we are developing [a] live-action film. I want to bring all these stories together as a universe that makes sense within itself. Part...
Though it wasn’t a deafening defeat, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters wasn’t a resounding success, either. All sexist nonsense aside, the film performed only average at the box office, casting doubt upon the future of the new franchise it was supposed to kick off. And while it seems unlikely we’ll be seeing the women of last summer’s movie suit up again anytime soon, we do know that the show will go on, in a sense.
In an interview with io9, the original film’s director and new franchise producer Ivan Reitman admitted that while the future is still a little up in the air, he’s got a plan to get it going forward.
We jumped into an animated film [after the last movie] and we are developing [a] live-action film. I want to bring all these stories together as a universe that makes sense within itself. Part...
- 3/22/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The world of Daniel Clowes is one without manners, glamour, and tact, but it is also one of uncomfortable truth, as scathing as it might be. One may have never verbally conveyed the discourteous musings of his characters to the extent to which it is their everyday vernacular, but we’ve all had similar thoughts when life isn’t going our way. The latest adaptation of his work comes with Wilson, directed by Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins), featuring a role Woody Harrelson is clearly having the time of his life with. Despite his commitment to a lack of civility, there’s a darker film lying in the cynical heart of Wilson, one that gets squandered by its mawkish aesthetic and lack of interest in exploring these characters beyond their crudeness.
Aside from his love for his terrier, the life of Wilson is one of loneliness, but in his eye,...
Aside from his love for his terrier, the life of Wilson is one of loneliness, but in his eye,...
- 1/26/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Christmas is over, and as we race to the conclusion of what has been a seemingly unanimously loathed 2016, film critics and cinephiles alike are continuing to formulate their respective best-of-the-year lists. Films from throughout the year are being discussed seriously and in ways that previous points in the year really don’t offer up. However, the year isn’t quite over yet, and there is one film that is in dire need of deep consideration as one of the very best films of not only this year but its director’s much-lauded career.
That film is Paterson, a quiet, poetic new neo-drama from beloved auteur Jim Jarmusch. Drawing its name from both the New Jersey city as well as the film’s fictional lead character, Paterson (as well as an epic poem from William Carlos Williams who gets name dropped throughout the film), almost from the outset, proclaims its observational conceit.
That film is Paterson, a quiet, poetic new neo-drama from beloved auteur Jim Jarmusch. Drawing its name from both the New Jersey city as well as the film’s fictional lead character, Paterson (as well as an epic poem from William Carlos Williams who gets name dropped throughout the film), almost from the outset, proclaims its observational conceit.
- 12/30/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Jim Jarmusch. Photo courtesy of the Lisbon Estoril Film Festival.This interview took place on an auspicious morning after the U.S. elections. The setting was placid: an oceanside terrace in the small casino town of Estoril, twenty minutes outside of Lisbon, where Jim Jarmusch was attending Paulo Branco’s Lisbon Estoril Film Festival. Despite the harrowing mood, the subject was focused and insightful, talking about his working method, collaborators, and the poetic influences and resonances for his latest film, Paterson, which opens in North America this week.Notebook: I wanted to start by talking about technical matters.Jim Jarmusch: Sure.Notebook: I’m curious…do you use a shot list?Jarmusch: No. Because, say, we go to the location, and it’s 4pm, and we’re shooting the next day at 9am… and now the light is coming from a different place, and maybe it rained overnight, and everything’s different.
- 12/29/2016
- MUBI
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