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1 month ago | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair |Kirsty Hazlewood
BY IAIN BLAIRDirector of Photography Tommy Maddox-Upshaw ASC got his start in the industry as a PA working on music videos and commercials, before working his way up the ranks to become a union grip/electric and then a cinematographer. Over the past decade he’s racked-up such credits as the acclaimed ‘80s saga Snowfall (2019-2021), for which he won the ASC award, Empire (2019-2020), and The Man Who Fell To Earth (2022) which earned him a nomination for the Camerimage Golden Frog award.
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2 months ago | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair |Kirsty Hazlewood
By Iain BlairAmerican cinematographer Alice Brooks ASC has been collaborating with director Jon M. Chu for well over two decades. They first met as film students at USC where she shot his musical short, and that led to In The Heights (2021), the acclaimed film adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair
OUR MAN IN LA Cinematographer Spotlight By Iain BlairCinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC and director Gia Coppola go way back. Coppola hired her to shoot Palo Alto, the 2013 indie-drama and festival favourite, before they then reteamed on the love-triangle drama Mainstream (2020).
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
postperspective.com | Iain Blair |Mike Mccarthy
The Substance: Oscar-Nominated
Director on Post and Co-Editing
By Iain Blair
The Substance may be the wildest and bloodiest movie of the year – or of any year, for that matter.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
postperspective.com | Iain Blair |Mike Mccarthy
A Complete Unknown Editors
on Workflow and Collaboration
By Iain Blair
A Complete Unknown, from writer/director James Mangold (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ford v Ferrari and Walk the Line) stars Timothée Chalamet as a young Bob Dylan.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
postmagazine.com | Iain Blair
When Oscar-nominated filmmaker Denis Villenueve took on the challenge of making the sci-fi epic Dune, he turned the ambitious, mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, set thousands of years in the future, into a blockbuster hit that also won six Oscars. Sequels to blockbusters often don’t outperform the original films, but
Dune: Part Two grossed almost double
Dune’s global box office and looks certain to be a top contender at awards season.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair |Kirsty Hazlewood
By Iain BlairFrom the highs – AFI FEST, new tax breaks? – to the lows – the ongoing angst and anxiety about the future of local production – it’s been a packed and intense past month here in Hollywood. Legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader was in town for AFI and his new film, Oh, Canada, which reunites him with Richard Gere for the first time since he directed the actor in American Gigolo, 45 years ago.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair |Kirsty Hazlewood
By Iain Blair Since Sam Levy first gained recognition as a cinematographer after he photographed director Kelly Reichardt’s acclaimed 2008 drama Wendy And Lucy (2008) – voted one of the Best 25 Films of the 21st Century by The New York Times – he’s racked up an impressive and diverse list of credits that includes the Academy Award-nominated Lady Bird for director Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015) for director Noah Baumbach, Maggie’s Plan (2015) for director Rebecca...
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
cinematography.world | Iain Blair |Kirsty Hazlewood
By Iain BlairWelcome to the first ‘Our man in LA ’ newsletter in what I hope will be a long series of informative, interesting and inspiring newsletters about our industry stretching off into the distance, to the bright horizon ahead.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
postperspective.com | Iain Blair |Randi Altman |Ashley Haley |Dayna McCallum
Securing the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and clinching five Oscar nominations, Anatomy of a Fall is a gripping family saga unraveling the startling collapse of an ordinary household.
