Cooke
2016
Sensors & Sensibility: Achieving the Luminous Glow of Whit Stillman’s ‘Love & Friendship’
“'Love & Friendship' was the first period film from that time for me, so I was really happy to do it, especially night scenes...
News
Southern Gothic: Philippe Le Sourd’s Beautiful, Menacing ‘Beguiled’
"I wanted to change the usual perception of background, looking for something that was more textured, closer to paintings," says director of photography Philippe...
2017
Collision Course: How the FX Series ‘Snowfall’ Depicts Intersecting Stories
The FX series "Snowfall" portrays the crack cocaine epidemic in early 1980s Los Angeles like an epic novel.
News
Taking a Grueling Trip Down ‘Blood Road’
In "Blood Road," ultra-endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch embarks on an emotional ride down the 1,200-mile Ho Chi Minh trail that runs through Vietnam,...
2017
Gorgeous Lighting for Gorgeous Ladies: Revisiting (and Referencing) the 1980s for Netflix’s ‘GLOW’
A little-known, low-budget female wrestling television show from the 1980s might not seem the most likely premise for Netflix's next breakout hit.
2017
‘Broadchurch’ Delivers Cinematic Scenes with Cooke Lenses
The third and final season of the ITV crime drama Broadchurch was shot using Cooke Anamorphic/i lenses by cinematographer Carlos Catalan, who admits it...
2016
Thrilling Adventures: Recording Remote Locations on ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’
"We watched many movies from the ’70s through the early 1990s," says DP Lachlan Milne. "We liked camera language of the era, including the...
News
Cooke Announces Panchro Classic Line
Cooke is introducing a modernized series of lenses based on its popular vintage Speed Panchro line (originally designed in the 1920s), expected to ship in...
2016
Cooke S4/i Primes Shoot the Biggest Television Show in the World
"On 'Game of Thrones,' all the different aspects come together for a certain look and feel."
News
2016 Zoom Lens Comparison Chart
Tom Fletcher and Al Collins have put together a zoom lens comparison chart, looking at stats from 34 lenses from Angenieux, ARRI, Canon, Cooke,...
2016
Sublime and Ridiculous—Hilariously Depicting the Dashed Dreams of ‘Baskets’
In the new FX series "Baskets," the titular Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) bets his future to enroll in a Parisian clown college in the...
2015
Cooke Anamorphic/i Lenses Hold Color and Contrast on ‘Stratton’
I chose to shoot the action thriller Stratton anamorphic partly for the aspect ratio, but also because I like the look of anamorphic lenses...
2014
’12 Monkeys’ Time Travels to 2015: The Science Fiction Tale Is Reimagined as a Syfy Series
In conversations about the look of the show, the production team realized the necessity of adopting distinct thematic elements to represent each time period,...
2014
OConnor Helps Svetlana Cvetko Build ‘The Architect’
Cinematographer Svetlana Cvetko has lent her expert visual talents to numerous documentaries, including the Oscar-winning Inside Job, Inequality for All and the Oscar-nominated short...
2014
Interview: Jonathan Sela, Cinematographer, ‘John Wick’
Sela chose to work with ARRI Alexa XT cameras, combining anamorphic and spherical lenses and capturing in ARRIRAW to maximize image quality.
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