THE DIRECTOR’S LENS

  • ‘Days of Heaven’ (1978, Terrence Malick). Cinematography: Néstor Almendros

  • How “On Becoming A Guinea Fowl” Reveals it’s Director’s Creative Choices.

    The main reason I started The Director’s Lens was for personal enrichment and growth in understanding the artform of film. I love movies, I always have. I consider film the peak of human artform that combines all other artistic disciplines: color, sound, drama, writing all blended into a final product that is unique, entertaining and…

  • In Praise of Porco Rosso’s Score

    What better way to spend the course of a summer completing your own personal film festival. Each week I’ve looked to my shelf of Blu-ray discs and pulled out a color coded steelbook containing a masterpiece from Hayao Miyazaki. While not my first time navigating through the filmography of Studio Ghibli it still provides a…

  • The Criterion Chronicles Vol. 1

    Thelonious Monk, Straight No Chaser (1988)

  • What is The Director’s Lens?

    It’s 11:30am on a hot Monday in July. I am sitting at my desk struggling to figure out where to begin with everything that is starting up a WordPress Blog and yet I can’t help but feel a tremendous thrill of excitement. I’ve been at this for three hours now and it has felt like…