At this year’s Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards, Neal Bryant, SOC, and Carey Toner took home the award for Camera Operator of the Year in Television for their work on The Last of Us. For this issue of Camera Operator, we were able to sit down with Bryant to discuss his award-winning work … Continue reading Camera Operator of the Year: Television
Nominated for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards and winner of the SOC’s Camera Operator of the Year in Film, Society of the Snow recounts the harrowing true story of the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Camera Operator had the chance to speak with A camera operator Juanjo Sánchez, SOC, and … Continue reading SOCIETY OF THE SNOW – No Easy Shots
Having been in development since 2007, David Fincher’s adaptation of the French comic series The Killer arrives as a slick, stylish, and darkly funny film about a professional assassin desperately trying to project an image of cold, exacting competence, all the while struggling to keep his head above water in the aftermath of a job … Continue reading THE KILLER – Silent Killer
After her debut feature was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay (for which it also won), writer/director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman has been highly anticipated. Saltburn, in turn, is lavish and provocative, featuring terrific performances and striking cinematography with dramatic use of color and … Continue reading SALTBURN – SOC Creative Spotlight
Eight years after 2015’s Blackhat, Michael Mann returns to the director’s seat with a film based on the life of Enzo Ferrari, founder of the legendary car manufacturer that shares his name. For roughly 20 years, Mann had explored the idea of doing a film about the life of Enzo Ferrari with the project going … Continue reading FERRARI – Telling the Truth
Following a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival where it took home the People’s Choice Award, American Fiction has opened to strong reviews, praising its stellar cast led by Jeffrey Wright as well as its insightful story, layering biting satire with an intimate family drama. In the Camera Operator Creative Spotlight, we got a … Continue reading AMERICAN FICTION – SOC Creative Spotlight
Though various incarnations of the superhero Blue Beetle have appeared on comic book pages since 1939, the current version of the character is a somewhat recent addition to the DC Comics pantheon. Introduced in 2006, Jamie Reyes, the son of Mexican-American immigrants, became the third character to don the mantle of the Blue Beetle. His … Continue reading BLUE BEETLE – A Different Kind of Superhero Movie
From relatively humble beginnings, the Mission: Impossible movies have grown into a vehicle for Tom Cruise—perhaps our last true movie star—to defy death through increasingly preposterous stunts in order to put some of the most spectacular action sequences ever conceived up on the big screen. Though the series has played host to five different filmmakers, … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE — Shooting an Impossible Mission
Over a career that has spanned six decades, director Martin Scorsese has often returned to the theme of examining the dark heart of American greed. But rather than gangsters or stock brokers, Killers of the Flower Moon turns its attention to ordinary people—cab drivers and undertakers and doctors— who are willing to commit, commission, and … Continue reading KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Reframing History
A film based on Barbie had been in various stages of development for more than a decade, but when it was announced that Greta Gerwig would be taking on the project hot on the heels of her tremendous work on 2019’s Little Women, it was clear that this was going to be something special. Now, … Continue reading BARBIE – Mid-Century Postmodern
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