While its ambitious storytelling and performances have captivated audiences, the film’s cinematography, directed by DP Lol Crawley BSC, truly sets it apart. Shot primarily on Kodak 35mm film in the ...
Star Wars nerds – like myself – will instantly recognize that the camera is modeled after the electrobinoculars that the battle droid commander, OOM-9, is seen using at the beginning of the climactic ...
According to Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “Black Bag” is a phrase spies use to avoid revealing information, even to their spouses. “Where are you going tonight, darling?” ...
While this film may not be what audiences imagine when thinking of erotic thrillers, I would argue that Black Bag is exactly what the current movie industry needs. Black Bag isn’t an action ...
(Since we’re talking about Soderbergh here, it could also be a reference to The Black Bag, a lost silent mystery from the 1920s about a detective who does some dirty shit to keep a thieving lady ...
“Black Bag,” an elegant, quick-witted new thriller ... gentleman who had allowed us to use his house and his cars in the film — so he was in the scene as well.” It clicks.
Could it be one of those two? Black Bag addresses Soderbergh’s unending addiction to the pop iconography of the 1960s. The technology, the architecture and the clothes are very much of the moment.
Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “Black Bag,” about married spies who engage in espionage on one another, pairs two major movie stars, Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, as the dearly ...