His life was painted in broad, muscular strokes that challenged the imagination. George Bonga searched through muck and mosquitoes for the source of the Mississippi River when he was 18. He portaged ...

One of Louis Malle’s lesser known films, The Fire Within (1963) is also one of his best, a low-key portrait of a suicidal writer making one last survey of his life while working up the will to make ...

For Liam Neeson, “Ordinary Love” is anything but. A low-key portrait of a retired Irish couple — Neeson’s Tom and Lesley Manville’s Joan — facing a sudden crisis with a breast cancer diagnosis, ...

Yet Wes Anderson rose to fame shooting in his home state of Texas. He and fellow University of Texas at Austin classmate Owen Wilson wrote the screenplay to what would become Bottle Rocket, then ...

Major life decisions — like 'let's make a baby' and 'let's make a porno' — have low-key consequences in this portrait of a typical Spanish couple. After a series of deliberately difficult art films, ...

Shot and largely cast on location, Chloe Zhao’s debut feature, “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” is a very low-key portrait of life on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This sparely plotted ...

Cinematographers and filmmakers seek to create lighting that not only illuminates their footage but also conveys the subtext of their shots. Two of the most common lighting techniques in film are high ...