Not even the likes of DOP Dion Beebe, editor Thelma Schoonmaker or EP Martin Scorsese... MARTIN SCORSESE!! (screen-space.squarespace.com)
Director Gary Ross (incongruously best known for the sugar - coated Seabiscuit) and his director of photography Tom Stern (Clint Eastwood's regular DoP for the past decade) establish a shrewd visual contrast between the muted blues and greys of District 12, where Katniss leads a hand - to - mouth existence, and the garish neons of the television studio into which she's later thrust. (theartsdesk.com)
Opening with a series of abstractions that seem like Glazer sticking two fingers up at an audience expecting a sexed - up «Species» re-do, the next couple of hours parcel out some of the most spectacular, searing images I can remember on the big screen, with DoP Daniel Landin showing a Gordon Willis - like capability for photographing darkness, and one FX - aided image in particular proving especially haunting. (indiewire.com)