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LOVESONG (2016), dir. So Yong Kim

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Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 1998 — Russell Carpenter, ASC Titanic (1997) Directed by James Cameron Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Outlining his general lighting approach on the film, Carpenter says, "Early on, Jim [Cameron], production designer Peter Lamont and costume designer Debra Scott made decisions in regard to the period style, but there really aren't any set rules about what kind of lighting is or is not appropriate for a period film. Titanic will bear the stamp of Jim Cameron's very blue night lighting. But there's also a lot of amber in this picture, which is quite a departure. With the warmer tones, we sometimes added a bit of a sepia feeling to some of the light." Carpenter had considered the cinematographic approaches of several other period films, including Howard's End, Heaven's Gate and The Natural. Other influences included paintings by John Singer Sargent and Caravaggio. — American Cinematographer, December 1997

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Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

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Academy Award Winners for Best Cinematography: 2000 — Conrad L. Hall, ASC American Beauty (1999) Directed by Sam Mendes Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

When Conrad L. Hall sat down to watch the finished film with Sam Mendes, he felt he was witnessing an artistic homicide. ”It was like somebody had taken a sword and drawn it through my gut,” says Hall, forcefully miming a hara-kiri gesture. ”I felt like, what the hell happened?” A radical postproduction rejigger, that’s what. In a bold move that has certainly paid off, Mendes unflinchingly sliced out a number of scenes that had been shot. Not only did the chopping radically alter the ending of the film, it also left some of Hall’s most ravishing work in the trash bin. — Entertainment Weekly, October 1999

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HALLOWEEN MARATHON 2024 ↳ day 16 🎃 HEREDITARY (2018) | dir. ari aster

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Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.

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Mysterious Skin (2004) dir. Gregg Araki

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Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 | dir. Jacques Rivette

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"What I would really like to do is be faceless and bodiless. And be left alone."

KLUTE (1971) dir. Alan J. Pakula

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“My whole life, I don’t know what this song [Auld Lang Syne] means. I mean, ‘should old acquaintance be forgot.’ Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances? It doesn’t mean that if we happen to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot them.” “Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them, or something. Anyway, it’s about old friends.”

Mikey and Nicky (1976), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Disobedience (2017), Y tu mamá también (2001), Little Women (2019), Passing (2021), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Past Lives (2023), Thoroughbreds (2017), Challengers (2024), Before Sunset (2004), The Five Devils (2022), Moonlight (2016), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Lovesong (2016)

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LAUREN BACALL as Irene Jansen Dark Passage 1947 | dir. Delmer Daves

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MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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THE FAMILY STONE 2005 — dir. Thomas Bezucha

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HALLOWEEN MARATHON 2024 ↳ day 1 🎃 HELLRAISER (1987) | dir. clive barker

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QUEER (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino