The best example of the new forms of storytelling and cinematic language that are possible with a new generation of light-sensitive, relatively inexpensive digital cameras. These are images designed to implant themselves in your brain, which might explain why film’s reputation has grown exponentially since it was first released. Every frame is an expressive photograph with sharp colors and period details that comes from what’s in the frame, rather than filters and post-production manipulation. The ocean, the light, and the atmosphere are so present that we’re lulled into a beguiling dreamlike state. While for most directors, switching between digital and film hasn’t affected their work, Anderson’s photography has increasingly become specific to the texture, color and magic of celluloid.įor “The Master,” the move to 70mm was key, as Anderson cranks up the hallucinatory dial on his visuals to place us in the post-war haze of a veteran being entranced by a huckster. on “ The Master,” PTA is a filmmaker completely in charge of his precise images, even down to choosing the exact lenses needed to capture his vision. Regardless of whether he’s working with regular DP Robert Elswit, or newcomer Mihai Malaimare Jr. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Paul Thomas Anderson served as his own cinematographer on his latest untitled film (opening in December). It’s an intoxicating effect -the images somehow wash over you like the roiling sea and strike the fear of god in you at the same time.
Fluid camera movements guide the viewer seamlessly - and eerily - from the dark realm of fantasy into the cold light of reality.
Part childhood fable, part nightmare, Navarro steeps his images in deep blues and eerie yellows.
Navarro is as integral to del Toro’s movies as any fairy tale monster, lensing six films with his countrymen: “ Cronos,” “ The Devil’s Backbone,” “ Hellboy,” “ Pan’s Labyrinth,” “ Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” and “ Pacific Rim.” Navarro has also worked with Robert Rodriguez on a few films, and shot Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown.” A film so dependent on visuals to weave its dark yarn, the genius of “ Pan’s Labyrinth” is in the delicate balance it strikes between lightness and darkness. Abrams, Jay Roach, Letters from Iwo Jima, Lost in Translation, Martin McDonagh, Meet The Parents, Memento, Memories of Murder, Million Dollar Baby, Monsters Inc.Guillermo del Toro’s longtime cinematographer Guillermo Navarro won a much-deserved Oscar for his work on the director’s alluring dark fantasy film. Tags: 28 Days Later, Alfonso Cuaron, Almost Famous, American Psycho, Anchorman, Ang Lee, Batman, Before Sunset, Best In Show, Bong Joon-ho, Borat, Brokeback Mountain, Catch Me If You Can, Children of Men, Christopher Nolan, City of God, Clint Eastwood, Coen Brothers, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Duncan Jones, Eternal Sunshine, Gran Torino, Gravity, Half Nelson, Harry Potter, Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle, In Bruges, Inception, J.J.
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