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Robert Horton

Camerimage Interview: Denis Lenoir

By Robert Horton
February 12, 2018
Linger on: the cinematographer who came of age with Olivier Assayas discusses the minutiae of changes that come with shooting and directing digitally

Camerimage Interview: Dan Laustsen

By Robert Horton
January 18, 2018
No rules, please: the Danish cinematographer behind The Shape of Water and Nightwatch discusses digging into the details

Camerimage Interview: Charlotte Bruus Christensen

By Robert Horton
January 11, 2018
In a new light: the cinematographer of Molly’s Game, Fences, and Far From the Madding Crowd discusses being true to the text

Camerimage Interview: Sam Levy

By Robert Horton
January 5, 2018
Memory lane: the cinematographer of Lady Bird, Frances Ha, and Wendy and Lucy discusses the art of capturing low-key moments

Modern Painter

By Robert Horton
January 3, 2018
Cinematographer Rachel Morrison on finding a natural look for both Black Panther and Mudbound

TCM Diary: Don’t Fight The Power (1968)

By Robert Horton
October 10, 2017
Brain fever: Byron Haskin’s psychic thriller is torn between crumbling Hollywood kitsch and counterculture shlock

TCM Diary: Ruby Gentry

By Robert Horton
September 12, 2017
Wayward woman: King Vidor’s 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic

Wicked Michael Parks

By Robert Horton
May 10, 2017
When Parks comes onscreen, you’re not sure where he’s coming from, but you’re sure he’s lived

Review: Aferim!

By Robert Horton
January 4, 2016
(Radu Jude, Romania/Bulgaria/Czech Republic, 2015)

Review: The Homesman

By Robert Horton
October 29, 2014
(Tommy Lee Jones, U.S., 2014)

The Typewriter and the Camera

By Robert Horton
September 26, 2014
Joseph L. Mankiewicz favored sophisticated storytelling over dynamic visuals—so what?

Book Review: John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By Robert Horton
April 21, 2014
Scott Eyman's thorough biography shows us another side of The Duke

Encore: A Touch of Noir

By Robert Horton
April 22, 2013
Jules Dassin’s sense of craft trumps the art-cinema pretensions of 10:30 P.M. Summer

Festivals: New York 1994

By Robert Horton
September 13, 2012
Boasting Assayas, Tarantino, Moretti, Kieślowski, Allen, Burton, Lai, and more, 1994's NYFF was unforgettable

Review: Dans Paris

By Robert Horton
May 31, 2011
(Christophe Honoré, France, 2006)