Stephen Pizzello


In Cold Blood 3
March 2019

Wrap Shot: In Cold Blood

Stark black-and-white photography by Conrad L. Hall, ASC added a grim sense of realism to this unsettling 1967 true-crime drama....more

Sleepy Hollow 1
February 2019

Galloping Ghost: Sleepy Hollow

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC  teams with director Tim Burton on a sumptuous adaptation of Washington Irving’s famous folktale....more

Leica Camera Ag Headquarters With Leica Café Visible In Left Foreground By James Hills Featured
July 2018

Leica Unveils Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH

The rebranding of Leica’s cinema-lens sister company, formerly CW Sonderoptic, served as the centerpiece of the company’s gala event at its newly completed Leitz-Park complex in Wetzlar, Germany....more

Reservoir Dogs Featured
April 2018

From Rags to Reservoir Dogs

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino and cinematographer Andrzej Sekula detail their approach to shooting what would become a classic crime tale....more

Apocalypse Now Featured
August 2017

Apocalypse Now: A Clash of Cultures

Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC recalls the photographic challenges he confronted during the tumultuous production of Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic....more


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