Doing Meg Ryan’s first close-up, it’s literally like being thrown from your bed into the lion’s den. Newton Thomas Sigel posted on Instagram: “A shout-out to the incomparable @thesamhargrave Leading us on the amazing journey that was…” • See all of @tsigel's photos and videos on their profile. He was starting a movie called Lucifer Rising, and he asked me if I would shoot some stuff for him, so I went to Niagara Falls, and that was my first job. Newton Thomas Sigel. You made moving pictures. We had just gotten back like the day before, and Pam was across the room kind of wagging her finger like, “No, don’t …” She was convinced everybody was in the CIA. So Oliver looks at it and hires this guy Robert Richardson to shoot Salvador, Robert Richardson’s first movie—I think it was his first movie. So I applied to a bunch of college, and—it tells you how things have changed—I got into all of them, I don’t even know why. Your father [Irving] was a really interesting psychologist who studied cognitive development, specifically in symbols, and I was thinking about that. So we drove up and down the border trying to get in, and we’d get as far as, like, a guy on a dirt road leaning against a pickup truck [saying], “No hay Contras aquí.” They’d say, “There’s no Contras here, there’s nothing here.” And we’d kind of go, “Why do you have those AK-47s in the back of the pickup truck?” And they say, “No, no, we’re just farmers, refugees… But you can’t go back there.” It went on like this. Registered office at Floor M, 10 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, Our website uses cookies to improve your user experience. They hire a family for you, whether you like it or not. AZ: And somehow you make it downstate from Buffalo to Manhattan. Alternate Formats. And you were in this program with …? It’s interesting because Bob Richardson did for quite a while. Découvrez tous les films et séries de la filmographie de Newton Thomas Sigel. Published on April 15, 2020. There are a few icons that have been there forever, but there was nothing at night other than a handful of bars and artists tripping on each other. That documentary and our experiences there is what led Haskell to rewrite his script and offer me the job to shoot my first feature, which I was totally unqualified for. She was this exotic, political, brave character that I thought was younger than me because she looked so young, and found out she was actually older than me. I didn’t know this until I worked on The Hurt Locker, and she asked me where my studio was and I told her, and I was like, “Oh my God.” So I wound up in New York, and this is early seventies. keep listening to Andrew Zuckerman, because he only talks to interesting people, with this exception. AZ: Yeah, and context is everything if you want to get to the truth, and that’s what we’re lacking today. But I could see the actors getting antsy. See more ideas about thomas, cinematography, film stills. This was the very beginnings of video, where we had what they called “the Portapack,” a black-and-white video camera attached by a cable to a giant recorder that created these really awful images on half-inch videotape. Sigel most recently worked with Singer in 2018—their tenth film together—on a celebratory biopic of Queen, British Academy of Film and Television Arts), On this episode of Time Sensitive—recorded shortly after his arrival back in the U.S. from Vietnam, where he was the director of photography on Spike Lee’s. NTS: Well, we were in Thailand and Vietnam. cameras.” And I was like, “Who is Robert Richardson?” I never heard of any guy—and I knew all the photojournalists there, because in Central America, I had done many movies there, but as a photojournalist. So we kind of moved back into the places where we came from a little more—[in my case] a more purely creative, artsy, although obviously with an affinity to content that has a social-activism aspect to it, and she’s still making documentaries. You’re recording the image, you’re photographing it. But what that means can be so variable depending upon the nature of the movie and the relationship with the director. I can’t remember them all. Follow us on Instagram (@slowdown.tv) and Twitter (@time__sensitive), and subscribe to our weekly newsletter. I was amazed at the confidence that he had, and yet how much the prep and the structure of shooting the film I had to do on my own because he didn’t really prep. 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On this episode of Time Sensitive—recorded shortly after his arrival back in the U.S. from Vietnam, where he was the director of photography on Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods (to be released in 2020)—Sigel shares with Andrew Zuckerman his early years in SoHo’s vibrant art community, his earning a metaphorical film degree by working for the legendary Haskell Wexler, and how he convinced Warner Brothers to create a movie using cross-processed film. So I knew that it would reach an audience. Right after I had worked on a movie called, , I came back to New York, and literally—I think it was the next day or two days later—a man showed up at my office named, , asking me if I wanted to do a documentary in El Salvador about the aesthetics of the right and the aesthetics of the left. The actual inside of the body, I filmed on a little insert stage at. Thank you so much for sharing with us. But instead of going to RISD or … I went to a very new, experimental college called Hampshire College. AZ: And that feeling of freedom is so necessary in the foundational years of making work. •Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn •Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel…” So the challenge was to balance these two seemingly opposing qualities into something that again, all worked in unison. movie, really, I think was a very important movie culturally—in terms of what it brought to the concept of a superhero movie or a comic book movie, which wasn’t really a genre in quite the same way—nothing like it is today. AZ: I don’t know if there’s a Starbucks, but it’s a rug shop, and they use the vault downstairs. I mean, it was a well-kept secret, but they’d never been filmed before. Was that your only offer at the time? Other Contenders (alphabetical by film) The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) Ben Smithard. I walked out the door, called Oliver, and I went, “All right, I’ll do this Platoon thing.” I flew to the Philippines where I met this guy named Robert Richardson, Bob, and then we started talking, and we realize we were born two days apart. •Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn •Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel…” Here, we get an insight into its visual branding and what being a responsible chocolate brand means, Modern Love illustrator Brian Rea recounts a childhood filled with stories, shares the struggles of embracing his style and tells CR why words have gained a new importance for him later in his career, Ben Cullen has built up a cult following for his mesmerising illusion cakes, which have appeared everywhere from Slowthai’s recent music video to Jurgen Klopp’s birthday party. NTS: Yeah, and the politically correct thing you’re supposed to say is that you don’t impose your style on the film, that the story is what drives everything, that you service the story, and if you notice the camerawork, you’re not doing your job—that’s what you’re supposed to say, because that’s what gets you your next job. Oliver called me—I was in New York—and said, “There’s going to be a press screening of a movie called, So now I’m going to back the story up. —the name “Vietnam” was almost like a cultural sign post. —Vietnam has a meaning that goes so far beyond a place and a nation, in my upbringing and in the history of my upbringing. Podcast Credits: Episode Sponsors Hot R od Cameras. Consultez la traduction anglais-allemand de newton Thomas Sigel dans le dictionnaire PONS qui inclut un entraîneur de vocabulaire, les tableaux de conjugaison et les prononciations. Newton Thomas Sigel “Extraction” BTS Footage Reveals Some Crazy Cinematography by Yossy Mendelovich. Because it’s literally a linear demarcation of my life. Online Interview Series Features Filmmakers Discussing the Art and Craft of Visual Storytelling. Location: Contact: Email Newton Thomas Sigel. I still had my company. AZ: You were there, though, on that day in the desert? But Spike is an extraordinarily singular talent and personality, very complex, and in a funny way a slightly enigmatic figure. And one image that you took us into that I’ll never forget is taking us inside the body with the bullet. NTS: And you have to remember that you can’t say things like, “Okay, lose the dishes!” You actually have to get up and pick them up and carry them to the counter. I mean, it was a well-kept secret, but they’d never been filmed before. It was dangerous, they tell me. NTS: I got fired, yeah, yeah. Sigel gets into his many projects over the past three decades, including working under Robert Richardson on films like Platoon (1986) and The Doors (1991), as well as DPing others, such as The Usual Suspects (1995), Valkyrie (2008), and Drive (2011). Now four guys are, for the first time, in the real world of Iraq, amongst the people, without the shelter of a whole … So I had used cross-processing before on small pieces of other films, but I thought I wanted to almost all of this film cross-processed. AZ: Well, before that, let’s not skip over my favorite of anything you’ve been involved with, which was Three Kings. It’s very hard to go with the Free Syrian Army and then go with German military. So I really got to think about what other jobs I can get, because I need a job. Finally, we made contact with a guy, Édgar Chamorro. It’s like, “It’s my buddy.” You can’t see it, all you podcasters, but … anyway, keep listening to Andrew Zuckerman, because he only talks to interesting people, with this exception. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - 2018 Brian Singer - Director Newton Thomas Sigel - Director of Photography…” NTS: Which was an interesting experience. So we all mark time in different ways. It was very cool. It wasn’t like I said, “I want to be a cinematographer.” It was never even like I said I wanted to be a director. He had two roommates and a house—remember, he’s in his mid-twenties, twenty-six, I think, and I come to his house, and there’s like four hundred people at his house. NTS: It’s a long story, but I’ll start with … in Los Angeles, we had met Haskell Wexler, a legendary political filmmaker—legendary, Oscar-winning cinematographer, who was known as a very liberal; in those days, he would’ve been considered radical—filmmaker. All of those things come under your purveyance, but how they do and in what way they do can have a radically different processes. I was there close to a year. Rather, his focus is on storytelling. I loved shooting it, I loved watching Rami—and the rest of the guys, but he was just absolutely extraordinary. 10. NTS: Whatever it was. More information can be found in our Cookies Policy and Privacy Policy. I think I had been inculcated so deeply from Gerry O’Grady and this program into the purity and sanctity of this avant-garde filmmaking that something like Last Tango in Paris, to me, was Hollywood commercial crap. Initially, I said, “No, I don’t want to do this.” It was for second unit. "Da 5 Bloods" cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel told Insider that Spike Lee had to push Netflix to let them shoot the movie's flashback scenes on 16mm film. From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of. In the last couple of minutes, I wanted to talk a bit about Drive, which was the other very atmospheric film that had huge cultural resonance at the time. This was before we were boyfriend-girlfriend or anything, because I thought maybe then she’d be my girlfriend if she did sound and I did camera on people’s movies. I had never met Lorenzo. But yeah, we owned the streets. And I was like, “My God, this guy’s in his mid-twenties, he’s like this phenomena already. Regarder maintenant Dans Le Cinéma Bientôt Cinémas Derniers remorques Nouvelles Trouver Film Commentaires She continues to be my best friend, but we’ve since found our true loves. Auto Added by WPeMatico “Second Unit is a Very Broad Label”: DP Newton Thomas Sigel on Da 5 Bloods. NTS: Yes, we were. NTS: It feels so formal. It was in a storefront, and it was giving community classes; it was meant to teach people how to make movies and also to bring in these filmmakers like Hollis Frampton to show a movie and have a discussion. Well, it turns out, he was a guy that went to AFI and did this movie—that I had said no to—with Jeff Harmon in El Salvador. Go see it, and then give me a call.”. The first couple days that we were shooting were a little tough, because I think Haskell was a little afraid of having to deal with the actors, and he wound up getting very heavily involved in the camera. Datasets available include LCSH, BIBFRAME, LC Name Authorities, LC Classification, MARC codes, PREMIS vocabularies, ISO language codes, and more. Oliver called me—I was in New York—and said, “There’s going to be a press screening of a movie called Salvador. So the textbook way is that you’re responsible for the movement of the camera, the lighting of the scene, and the composition of the frame. Newton Thomas Sigel was born in August 1955 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Welcome to the studio, Tom. NTS: No, what happened after that: So I finished Latino, and went back to New York. Did it sort of have success in spite of its own evolution? @willtizard1 . I mean, the vibrancy. By looking at this video we can explore the crazy cinematography behind it. Then he was given this opportunity to do his research, because he was a teacher but more of a research psychologist. I think I’ve enjoyed creating work that is radically different from other work that I’ve done. We announced literally seeing a war from both sides, which is really, really rare, to this day. Découvrez aussi toutes les photos et vidéos de Newton Thomas Sigel And I went to do. Andrew is a photographer, filmmaker, and creative director. Website design: Apartamento Studios. Cherry with Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC Fatale with Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC Judas and the Black Messiah with Sean Bobbitt, BSC Mank with Erik Messerschmidt, ASC Nomadland with Joshua James Richards One Night in Miami with Tami Reiker, ASC Small Axe with Shabier Kirchner NTS: And again, I still wasn’t thinking of myself as a cinematographer, or even really a director. I’m starting to think, What else have I been offered? I don’t know that any of them necessarily became household names afterwards. Retrouvez les photos de Newton Thomas Sigel : photos de tournage et de promotion, images de films et séries For Bryan, as a gay director, it might have been more of an allegory for where we were beginning to go as a society in terms of acceptance of sexual preference. AZ: It’s been such a treat to have you on today. Time Sensitive features candid, revealing portraits of curious and courageous people in business, the arts, and beyond who have a distinct perspective on time. So when I look back on it, I think, “Oh yeah, I used to draw a lot,” but I don’t think it was one of those “since I was in nursery school, I was drawing on the back of the blackboard” or something. I think the first time I went was on a documentary about Todos Santos Cuchumatán, which is a little village in the northwest of Guatemala. It wasn’t like I said, “I want to be a cinematographer.” It was never even like I said I wanted to be a director. So I get in the car, I’m still asleep, I’m driving out, I’m going to fill in for him. You’re given a place to live; somebody comes and cleans it while you’re at work; you have room service if you’re hungry; they give you a car to drive or somebody drives you some place; they give you a piece of paper that says, “Wake up at this time” and “This is what you’re going to do.” And you have a family. And that was about it. in Detroit, at that time, our neighborhood was in flames, . Do you find that, when looking back on the history of your own life, it’s marked in the films that you’ve made? I do have to say, when I got back, it was a little bit like, “Wow, everybody’s speaking English.” It was definitely some culture shock. And Chris McQuarrie had written this amazing script. 2019 Nominee BAFTA Film Award: Best Cinematography Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Awards Circuit Community Awards. It was gritty. He has published multiple books and exhibitions, including Creature (2007), Wisdom (2008), Bird (2009), Music (2010), and Flower (2012). Newton Thomas Sigel “Extraction” BTS Footage Reveals Some Crazy Cinematography by Yossy Mendelovich. I just liked making these little movies. Before it officially opened, I had to sit in there and read all the manuals and figure out—there was one, , which was the Cadillac; you had to be really special to get to use that. I never read the script, but we talked a lot about it and even had a Doors mezcal drinking trip to Catalina beforehand. you only get to be a legend by being really old. ] Now, a year or two later, I’m being asked to go see this press conference. The cameras swishing everywhere, I got lights inside …. On the show today we are chatting with cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel ASC about his career and his most recent worn on Da 5 Bloods. Andrew is a photographer, filmmaker, and creative director. They were all along the border in Honduras, but deeply hidden. AZ: How lucky that we’re in the same place at the same time to talk. But he talked me into it, so I literally finished a movie [Dhaka] for the Russo brothers one night and started Spike’s movie the next day. ) footage of its upcoming American action thriller, Extraction lens choice everything. Lot about it and do it about Nicaragua the Visual and just naturally became the cinematographer Sensitive we Tom. 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