Khondji + Reflections + Fix It In Prep + The Cinematographer's Voice
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Khondji + Reflections + Fix It In Prep + The Cinematographer's Voice
Conversations with Darius Khondji is one of the only books of its kind to be fully devoted to the life and work of a cinematographer, offering a journey through the past fifty years of cinema with one of the greatest directors of photography who helped revolutionize the art form through his work on both Hollywood films and art-house movies in Europe and Asia
Darius Khondji has shot films for many of the greatest directors in contemporary cinema, including: David Fincher (Se7en), James Gray (The Lost City of Z), Michael Haneke (Amour), Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), Roman Polanski (The Ninth Gate), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter), Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro (Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children), Bong Joon-ho (Okja) and Nicolas Winding Refn (Too Old to Die Young).
SIGNED copies by James and Roger Deakins.
In Reflections: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts a one-of-a-kind look into his life and improbable road to Hollywood immortality. Readers will discover how “the boy from Torquay, England” overcame a troubled childhood to enter his way into art school; his fortuitous entry into world of documentary filmmaking (including a yacht race around the world); to shooting groundbreaking music videos such as Herbie Hancock’s “Rock It,” to his singular film career, including his longtime collaborations with the Coen Brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
Filled with never-before-seen storyboards, sketches, and diagrams, Rogers shows readers how he created some of the most iconic scenes in the most beloved films of all time. Through candid, lyrical prose, Deakins reflects on his life and each of his projects; how he helped shape them, and how they shaped him.
A truly unique visual memoir, Reflections is for film fans and general readers alike, and for anyone looking to find inspiration, beauty, and creativity by looking through the singular lens with which Roger views the world.
LIMITED SIGNED COPIES BY Shane Hurlbut, ASC
The most expensive thing on a film set is confusion. It wastes time, burns money, and kills creativity. The only way to win the battle against it is to show up with a bulletproof plan.
After 35 years in the trenches on films like Terminator Salvation, Need for Speed, and We Are Marshall, trailblazing cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, ASC, perfected a system to conquer the chaos of pre-production. For the first time, he shares his proprietary Nine-Read Process—a battle-tested, step-by-step methodology for deconstructing any script, finding its visual soul, and building a powerful blueprint that empowers your entire team.
This is a field guide packed with real-world case studies and practical, actionable assignments with every single page brought to life by the brilliant and often humorous illustrations of Adolfo Martinez Perez, transforming complex theories into engaging visuals. It’s a playbook for any filmmaker—Director, Producer, Writer, or DP—who wants to create a shared visual language and lead with confidence.
LIMITED SIGNED COPIES BY Roberto Schaefer, ASC
Edited by Lindsay Coleman & Roberto Schaefer, ASC
The Cinematographer's Voice is a unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking and cinematography. The distillation of more than one-hundred interviews with cinematographers from around the world, and the product of a decade's worth of scholarship, the book is not only a collection of interviews with some of the world's leading cinematographers, but also a panoramic sweep of what image-making means in the era of digital cinema. Frequently, cinematography may seem intimidating as a discipline, the preserve solely of practitioners who have learned, through years of exposure to photographic technology, both the required jargon and background knowledge to comfortably engage with an often-technical field. In our present era of film studies, this is no longer the case. The interviews collected here are informative not only on matters of technique, but also on the ways in which practitioners formulate their methodologies, work with directors, and engage with the many logistical hurdles of visual storytelling. The result is an oral history of the past forty years of filmmaking and the cinematography it has produced.
