I don’t remember when I was first introduced to Roger Ebert. Perhaps in passing I read a movie review or his or happened to turn on the TV when “At the Movies” was playing. The strange thing I feel like I have known him my entire life. Roger Ebert has and continues to teach me so much not only about movies but about life. Ebert has …
The other bands on this list use their music for various allegorical and symbolic reasons, but Scott Pilgrim and Sex Bob-omb actually have to fight evil with the power of their rocking. Scott and his friends are called into an alternate video game dimension of their own Canadian hipster reality to fight the super-powered ex-boyfriends of his new girlfriend …
Within the science-fiction genre, various conceptualizations of time-travel have been offered by the cinema. Indebted to 19th century literature, with H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) undeniably the most inspirational of the lot, time-travel has drawn interest in the cinema not only for the narrative possibilities it affords, but for its …
There were a few ways I could have gone about this. First would have been to document odd choices in books to be adapted. Were I to have done that, Catch 22, The Slaughterhouse Five and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy…
Sven Nykvist and Ingmar Bergman. Michael Ballhaus and Martin Scorsese. Janus Kaminski and Steven Spielberg. Gordon Willis and Woody Allen. John Allcott and Stanley Kubrick. Barry Sonnenfeld/Roger Deakins and The Coen Brothers. Steven Soderberg and…Steven Soderberg. Wally Pfister and Christopher Nolan. These are some of the great cinematographer/director collaborations of all time, each DP working three or more times with the director and in some cases being partly responsible for the reputations of each other. This list could have easily become more of a Top 5 Christopher Nolan Films list instead of a Wally Pfister list, because the two are intrinsically linked. But instead of simply picking the best films that Pfister happened to be the director of photography on, I chose to focus on the photography more than the overall film. That said, there may be a surprise (possibly two) on the list of Wally Pfister’s best films as cinematographer.