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Netflix’s episodic reimagining of the 1981 feature, The Four Seasons, is packed with comedy talent – and plenty of expertise behind the camera. by Jon Silberg / Photos by Jon Pack and Francisco Roman / Framegrabs Courtesy of Netflix   In 1981, Alan Alda, at the height of his M*A*S*H star power, wrote and directed his debut feature film, The Four Seasons – an adult dramedy that examines the relationships of four couples vacationing together over each season of the […]

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Episode 2 of ICG Magazine’s “Outside the Frame” is now LIVE on… YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify For the second episode of ICG Magazine’s Outside the Frame, we sit down with Caleb Dewart, Managing Partner of Hungry Man Productions, a Los Angeles-based commercial production company. The conversation covers the challenges and importance of keeping commercial production in Southern California following January’s wildfires, the depth of experience union crews bring to commercial shoots, and their commitment to donating a percentage of Hungry Man’s […]

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Director of Photography Adam Newport-Berra and his L.A.-based camera team help fast-track Apple TV+’s hit comedy The Studio through filmland’s treacherous (and hilarious) executive suites. by Kevin Martin / BTS Photos by Erin Simkin and Jessica Brooks / Framegrabs courtesy of Apple TV+   “The Peter Principle” is a management concept credited to the late educator Laurence J. Peter. His key takeaway is that “in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” Given some of […]

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 The debut episode of ICG Magazine’s “Outside the Frame” is now LIVE on… YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify For this first episode, ICG Magazine’s Executive Editor, David Geffner, sits down with Director of Photography Kramer Morgenthau ASC, and Director Julius Onah to discuss their work on Marvel’s recent theatrical hit, Captain America: Brave New World.

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ICG Magazine says farewell to its staff writer, and the longest-running employee of Local 600’s national team, Pauline B. Rogers by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of Susan Lewis/ Rita Friedman and Nancy Schreiber, ASC   “Did you hear the screams echoing down Malibu Canyon, David? That was me howling [with joy and frustration] that this person called me back after canceling our interview for the third time! It’ll be a miracle if this piece gets filed by the deadline. […]

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This year’s festival is filled with debut Sundancers, many of whom are also first-time filmmakers who leaned heavily on their more experienced union cinematographers. by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of the Sundance Institute or as Otherwise Noted   Scanning the program for the 2025 version of the Sundance Film Festival (which arrives just weeks after a series of devastating wildfires in Southern California, impacting film and television crews around the region), the first common thread that looms is the […]

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Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Jonathan Sela
A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Director: Michalis Giagkounidis
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
Thessaloniki Greece 2015. A girl in search of excitement tries to combat her wearisome life taking pictures of strangers. A customer at the coffee place she works at asks her to escort him to the hospital. A boy is in love with he...

Director: Rodrigo Moscoso
Cinematographer: Gaspar Quique Silva
Juan meets Luciana at the worst time of his life. They build their relationship in an atypical way. They spend their summer inside Badur Hogar weaving together a series of lies that will unexpectedly lead them to face reality.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Claude L. McDonnell
Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there.

Director: Santiago Van Dam
Cinematographer: Gaspar Quique Silva
Marcos was once a successful writer of children's books. His goal for years has been to conclude his masterpiece novel. But the lack of social interaction, his excessive ambitions and the influence of a narcotic plant he cultivate...

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

Director: Lotte Ruules
Cinematographer: Max van de Pol
At the age of nine, Sam starts to realize that she is different from her classmates. Over the years, she receives many different diagnoses, except the correct one. Finally, after a childhood with much uncertainty, she knows: autism.

Director: Danny Boyle
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.

Director: Barry Levinson
Cinematographer: Stéphane Fontaine
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Director: Tim Miller
Cinematographer: Ken Seng
An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Director: Paul Feig, Randall Einhorn, Ken Kwapis, Greg Daniels, Jeffrey Blitz, Ken Whittingham, David Rogers, Charles McDougall, Matt Sohn, Paul Lieberstein, B.J. Novak, Tucker Gates, Harold Ramis, Brent Forrester, Jennifer Celotta, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Troy Miller, Bryan Gordon, Dennie Gordon, Victor Nelli Jr., Jason Reitman, Julian Farino, Joss Whedon, Seth Gordon, Dean Holland, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Mindy Kaling, Ed Helms, Rodman Flender, Claire Scanlon, Amy Heckerling, Miguel Arteta, Roger Nygard, J.J. Abrams, Craig Zisk, Stephen Merchant, Reginald Hudlin, Asaad Kelada, Alex Hardcastle, Danny Leiner, John Scott, Marc Webb, Charlie Grandy, Michael Spiller, Eric Appel, Brian Baumgartner, Daniel Chun, Bryan Cranston, Kelly Cantley-Kashima, Jon Favreau, Lee Kirk, Jesse Peretz
Cinematographer: Matt Sohn, Randall Einhorn, Sarah Levy, Peter Smokler
A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, tedium and romance.

Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Director: Fil Ieropoulos
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it.

Director: Osgood Perkins
Cinematographer: Andres Arochi
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

Director: Amin Pourbarghi
Cinematographer: Costa Konstantinou

Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs.

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Director: Antonios Vallindras
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
In December 1948, an unofficial Christmas truce allows soldiers from opposing sides of the Greek Civil War to share a moving moment before returning to the barbaric reality.

Director: Dida Andrade, Andradina Azevedo
Cinematographer: Andradina Azevedo
This dramatization shows the intense life of Eike Batista during the founding of the oil company OGX and the meteoric rise and fall of his empire.

Director: Inez Eltink
Cinematographer: Jor Broeder
Becoming the best version of yourself, the goal everyone consciously or unconsciously strives for. Everything can always be better, more beautiful, bigger, faster. Nowadays silence is the only time we can relax, but the world we l...

Director: Susanne Hagen
Cinematographer: Jesse Post
A film about the silent power of the introvert and the magic of fantasy.

Director: James Newhook
Cinematographer: James Newhook
A man recounts to a friend a series of dreams in which he travels through time with the aid of a feather.

Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Enrico Alexander Giordano
Cinematographer: Daniel Brouwer
A 40-year-old broker leaves everything and turns his back on a society that no longer holds an attraction for him.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Cinematographer: Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Adam Elliot
Cinematographer: Gerald Thompson
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Director: Andrew Burn
Cinematographer: Andrew Burn
After a mysterious event, a small community of neighbors erupt into chaos as they suspect hostile aliens are invading. Leo, the reluctant HOA president takes the lead and guides his fellow neighbors on a quest for answers. However...

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual g...

Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.

Director: Lena Dunham, Jesse Peretz, Richard Shepard, Jamie Babbit, Jody Lee Lipes, Tricia Brock, Jenni Konner, Claudia Weill, Alex Karpovsky, Nisha Ganatra
Cinematographer: Tim Ives, Jody Lee Lipes, Matthew Santo, Hernan Otaño
A comedy about the experiences of a group of girls in their early 20s.

Director: Ralph Hemecker, Ron Underwood, Dean White, Romeo Tirone, Steve Pearlman, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Billy Gierhart, David Solomon, Milan Cheylov, Alrick Riley, Eagle Egilsson, David Barrett, Paul A. Edwards, Guy Ferland, Mario Van Peebles, Geofrey Hildrew, Jon Amiel, Morgan Beggs, Mick Garris, Sharat Raju, Greg Beeman, Mark Mylod, Victor Nelli Jr., Anthony Hemingway, Bryan Spicer, Michael Waxman, David Boyd, Ciaran Donnelly, Andy Goddard, Alex Zakrzewski, Ernest R. Dickerson, Adam Horowitz, Mairzee Almas, Norman Buckley, Rob Duncan, Eriq La Salle, Jennifer Lynch, Craig Powell, Alex Kalymnios, Michael Schultz, Tara Nicole Weyr, Kate Woods, Tessa Blake, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Steve Miner, Antonio Negret, Lana Parrilla, Ellen S. Pressman
Cinematographer: Stephen Jackson, Tony Mirza, Steven Fierberg
A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.

Director: Tom Verica, Oliver Bokelberg, Allison Liddi-Brown, Tony Goldwyn, Randy Zisk, Jann Turner, Jeannot Szwarc, Steve Robin, Paul McCrane, Mark Tinker, Debbie Allen, Scott Foley, Sharat Raju, Stephen Cragg, Michael Katleman, Ron Underwood, Roxann Dawson, Julie Anne Robinson, Zetna Fuentes, Regina King, Steph Green, Nzingha Stewart, Nicole Rubio, Paul McGuigan, Bethany Rooney, Jessica Yu, Ava DuVernay, Kevin Bray, David Rodriguez, John Terlesky, Chandra Wilson, Paris Barclay, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Millicent Shelton, Gregory T. Evans, Joe Morton, Daryn Okada, Darby Stanchfield, Kerry Washington, Valerie Weiss
Cinematographer: Oliver Bokelberg, Michael G. Wojciechowski, Daryn Okada, Steven G. Fracol, Andrew Lemon
A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.

Director: Jesper Elming
Cinematographer: Claus Frederiksen

Director: Ludovic Bernard, Louis Leterrier, Hugo Gélin, Xavier Gens, Daniel Grou, Marcela Said
Cinematographer: Christophe Nuyens, Maxime Cointe, Nicolas Massart, Martial Schmeltz
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations.