There’s a moment in Free Solo during Alex Honnold’s historic, rope-less ascent of El Capitan when the audience sees cinematographer…
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There are a lot of ways you can learn how to make films. You can go to film school. You…
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Forty years ago, legendary editor Walter Murch was working late one night on a film for Francis Ford Coppola called…
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There is a point at which most creatives wonder if they’ll ever get where they’re going. Usually, it comes along…
You could point out a lot of reasons why Oscar-winner Tom Cross is one of the best editors in Hollywood.…
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Roger Deakins said, “People confuse ‘pretty’ with good cinematography.” In a way, he’s saying cinematographers’ work is more important than…
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There are a lot of action-sports films out there. A lot. Maybe that’s because in extreme sports the drama is…
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When we asked Robert Legato about his success rate at achieving the impossible, he didn’t immediately answer the question. He’d…
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Danny Madden (a.k.a. Ornana) has one rule: Make films the hard way, or don’t make them at all. “Sometimes it’s…
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At some point on the way to becoming who we want to be, we have to stop being who we…
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