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‘Wicked’ Cinematographer Alice Brooks Seeks a Place in ASC History
ASC Awards: 'Wicked' DP Alice Brooks seeks a place in ASC history, but she faces competition from 'Nosferatu' and 'The Brutalist' DPs.
Brooks had one goal for the big screen adaptation of the hit musical, that “it would be the most beautiful love story between these two women,” she says, referring to Glinda (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), who star as the famous witches of Oz. Blaschke won ASC’s Spotlight Award in 2019 for “The Lighthouse.” And Crawley brought back the rarely used VistaVision to improve image quality and “to pull the film horizontally across eight perforations at a time. In telling the story of Bob Dylan’s arrival to New York and his rise as a folk singer, Papamichael’s objective was to get inside the character’s head and make audiences understand what made him tick.
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