Not to get overly political, but it’s all over the news that the events of the first week of the Trump administration reminded enough Americans of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to rocket the 1949 book to the top of the bestsellers list again, almost seventy years after it was written. For those who don’t like […]
Roger Deakins
Skyfall is the Best Bond’s Looked in Years
Thus far Daniel Craig’s James Bond films – Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace – have been a mixed bag. While the former was a successful reinvention of agent 007 the latter threw most of those intriguing concepts away in favor of a humdrum story about water being our most precious resource. However, despite the […]
In ‘True Grit,’ The Coen Brothers Ditch Darkly Comic Reinvention
With beautifully meticulous art direction and costume design shot by master cinematographer Roger Deakins, True Grit looks like it was painted in 1870.