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Lessons from the director and his influential masterpiece.
Film-making lessons from the second instalment of the sci-fi epic.
Commercially- and critically-acclaimed ‘auteurs’ who destroy the ‘difficult genius’ myth.
Breakdowns of ways this sound design technique is used in major feature films.
Breakdowns of form and function in Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.
A masterclass in the director of photography’s low key ambient lighting visual style.
A look at the director’s singular voice in film.
What are aspect ratios, and what can they mean for visual storytelling?
Roger Deakins: holy shit. Gender and race: hmmm.
Is the legacy of the art my generation grew up on really that we simply regurgitate it?
An alien sci-fi film about editing, and what the language of film does to us as humans.
A case study in how to build tension through editing.
A study of how director of photography Roger Deakins uses light to illustrate the film’s dark themes.
The feeling when you’re in the hands of a director who knows what they’re doing.