What seems to be one of the strongest-held beliefs in online film speculation on Film Twitter and the likes is the long-standing rumor that writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson wrote, rewrote, or did a deep and uncredited pass on Martin Scorsese’s “Killers Of The Flower Moon” (which we named one of the Best Films Of 2023) Up until now, the rumors are just that, not confirmed, and no one of any authority has spoken about them; hence us never really covering the story.

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Here’s a wild statistic for you—as of this writing, “Barbie” is the 14th highest grossing film of all time. At $1.43 billion in global grosses, the film is Warner Bros.’ biggest film of all time and the absolute runaway hit of 2023. And it’s all thanks to Michael Cera’s Allan character. Well, that’s not really all that correct, even if he is this writer’s favorite part.

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There’s a lot of questions about how Hollywood is going to bounce back after the COVID-19 production stoppages. It would appear that in a post-COVID-19 world, film production is tricky, to say the least, with all sorts of safety precautions that have to be followed. For cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, he knows all about that, as the DP for one of the first big productions of the “new normal,” Taylor Swift’s “Cardigan” music video.

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Accompanying the surprise release of her new album Folklore (the visual art for which has some Robert Eggers-esque leanings), Taylor Swift released a new music video for her song “Cardigan” last night. Directed by the singer herself, the video features photography from none other than Rodrigo Prieto, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, as well as Ang Lee.

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The American Society of Cinematographers announced the nominees for the 2020 ASC Awards this afternoon and there were few surprises among their picks. Likely frontrunner Roger Deakins (“1917”) was joined in the Theatrical Release category by Rodrigo Prieto (“The Irishman”), Robert Richardson (“Once Upon A Time In Hollywood”), Phedon Papamichael (“Ford v Ferrari”) and Lawrence Sher (“Joker”).  The nominees almost always lineup with Oscar’s Best Cinematography award considering the duplication between the ASC and the Academy’s Cinematography branch.

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This year’s Cinematography field is somewhat of an open field at the moment. We assume Robert Richardson will earn his 10th nomination for “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” which would also be his fourth for a Quentin Tarantino film. We assume Roger Deakins will earn his 15th nomination for “1917.” We assume Rodrigo Prieto will earn his third nomination for “The Irishman” after earning a nod for his last Martin Scorsese collaboration, “Silence.” And if there are truly only two slots left to fill?

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The Museum of the Moving Image has been celebrating and exploring filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s life, work, and his passion for cinema since December with a terrific exhibit drawing extensively from Scorsese’s own collection of key production material, objects from his childhood, behind-the-scenes images, and large-scale projections of scenes from his work and more. For the final weekend of the exhibit, MOMI put on a full-blown retrospective of his work over two days featuring the lesser-seen, more personal Scorsese films, “A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies,” “My Voyage to Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia)” and docs like “No Direction Home” and “The Last Waltz.”

However, it was the impressive panel after the screening of“Silence” that brought a special salute to the exhibit in its entirety, which included cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, screenwriter Jay Cocks, who along with co-writing “Silence,” also co-wrote “The Age of Innocence” and “Gangs of New York,” longtime collaborator Academy-award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and finally Scorsese himself, 30 minutes late thanks to an unexpected traffic collision in Queens.

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With more and more reasons to just stay home and #Netflixandchill, the awards season is a strong reminder that movies were made to be watched on the big screen. Damien Chazelle‘s gorgeous realized musical “La La Land” is truly a cinematic experience, and trying to immerse yourself in Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” on a laptop would be somewhat futile. And THR celebrates the lensers who made visual magic this year with their latest cinematographer roundtable.

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It’s always good to be reminded that there are good and beautiful things in this world. And on days when the world feels particularly ugly, such reminders can feel vitally necessary. Of course, the craft of the cinematographer is not about prettification, but about communication —in many ways the purest of all the cinematic disciplines, cinematography is about telling the story of the film’s themes, mood and atmosphere through visuals: through the interplay of light and shade, color and motion.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu has been putting forth his vision onscreen now for almost two decades. In the last two years, he’s directed two movies (“Birdman” and “The Revenant“) that have pushed the boundaries of the medium and won him consecutive Directing Oscars, a feat only done twice before in Oscar history.

Now there’s a video essay of the work Iñárritu has done these past 16 years by Vugar Efendi Films.

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