Back in the 1940s, Kodak tested the color accuracy of its film by using what it called “Shirley cards,” each of which featured photos of various models. Unsurprisingly, this being the ’40s, all of those models were white, and the result was the concept that, when it comes to filming the human body, caucasian skin is…
While watching an episode of Mr. Robot, you could be forgiven for thinking, “Wait, I just spent that entire shot looking at a park bench behind the characters, rather than the characters themselves.” It wasn’t an accident.
The recently unretired Steven Soderbergh is something of a workaholic. This is a guy who walked away from filmmaking in 2013, done with the entire business, and ended up directing all 20 hours of The Knick before his “official” return with the upcoming Logan Lucky.
The YouTube channel CineFix bills itself as “the ultimate destination for true movie buffs & filmmakers.” It also serves as a kind of mini-film class for regular movie fans who may want to know more about what they’re watching. CineFix has already released a video on the five most popular shots in moviedom, and has…
About 2 percent of the 2013’s top 250 top-grossing films were shot by female directors of photography. The fact that many readers probably don’t know whether that’s high or low speaks to a real problem in the film industry. To that point, Vulture recently published a compilation interview with three of the most…
Letterboxes, the black boxes that appear on either the top and bottom or sides of film and television shows to preserve their original display format, have become so commonplace that most people don’t bat an eye at them. Instead, companies like Netflix have gotten in hot water from users for cropping videos that…
How does a cinema sin denoting careless technique become a cinema staple assuring authenticity and verisimilitude? That’s what Vox explores in its latest video on the history of the lens flare, tracing its place in film history from Citizen Kane (where it was studiously eliminated) to its absurd apogee in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek films
There are a couple of different ways to wind down after a hard week. Some people want to challenge themselves with thoughtful, intellectual prose; others want uproarious comedy to lighten their moods; and some want to mindlessly scroll through a series of pretty picture.
