Cinematographer M. David Mullen is a two-time Emmy Award winner for his work on Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” but even Mullen and his camera operators hadn’t faced a challenge as they did in the show’s Season 4 finale.
In the episode “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” – notable for some major forward progress in the relationship between Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) – the club where the show’s title character has spent the season performing is raided by the police. The blitz leads to a chaotic scene as everyone tries to escape without being detained – and it was shot in one take, in keeping with the “Mrs. Maisel” visual aesthetic.
“All the seasons have had very elaborate camera movements, mostly pulled off by Jim McConkey, our Steadicam operator. But this one was one of the hardest he’s had to do,” Mullen tells...
In the episode “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?” – notable for some major forward progress in the relationship between Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby) – the club where the show’s title character has spent the season performing is raided by the police. The blitz leads to a chaotic scene as everyone tries to escape without being detained – and it was shot in one take, in keeping with the “Mrs. Maisel” visual aesthetic.
“All the seasons have had very elaborate camera movements, mostly pulled off by Jim McConkey, our Steadicam operator. But this one was one of the hardest he’s had to do,” Mullen tells...
- 8/8/2022
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Geoffrey Haley won the Society of Camera Operators’ Camera Operator of the Year Award in film, for his work on the Russo Bros.’ Cherry. The Apple TV+ release — for which its Dp, Newton Thomas Sigel, is nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award — follows the journey of the film’s titular Ptsd-suffering war vet, played by Tom Holland.
Also Sunday during the Soc Awards celebration, Jim McConkey won the camera operator of the year award in television, for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Haley topped a field of nominees that included Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason ...
Also Sunday during the Soc Awards celebration, Jim McConkey won the camera operator of the year award in television, for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Haley topped a field of nominees that included Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason ...
- 4/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Geoffrey Haley won the Society of Camera Operators’ Camera Operator of the Year Award in film, for his work on the Russo Bros.’ Cherry. The Apple TV+ release — for which its Dp, Newton Thomas Sigel, is nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Award — follows the journey of the film’s titular Ptsd-suffering war vet, played by Tom Holland.
Also Sunday during the Soc Awards celebration, Jim McConkey won the camera operator of the year award in television, for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Haley topped a field of nominees that included Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason ...
Also Sunday during the Soc Awards celebration, Jim McConkey won the camera operator of the year award in television, for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Haley topped a field of nominees that included Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason ...
- 4/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Society of Camera Operators has announced the nominees for its Camera Operator of the Year Awards.
For camera operator of the year in film, the society nominated Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason Ellson for Mulan, Geoffrey Haley for Cherry, John “Buzz” Moyer for The Hunt and Sasha Proctor for The Outpost.
In the television competition, the Soc nominated Don Devine for Perry Mason,Simon Jayes for The Mandalorian, Jim McConkey for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Andrew Mitchell for Ratched and Henry Tirl for Wandavision.
The awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 11.
For camera operator of the year in film, the society nominated Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason Ellson for Mulan, Geoffrey Haley for Cherry, John “Buzz” Moyer for The Hunt and Sasha Proctor for The Outpost.
In the television competition, the Soc nominated Don Devine for Perry Mason,Simon Jayes for The Mandalorian, Jim McConkey for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Andrew Mitchell for Ratched and Henry Tirl for Wandavision.
The awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 11.
- 3/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Society of Camera Operators has announced the nominees for its Camera Operator of the Year Awards.
For camera operator of the year in film, the society nominated Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason Ellson for Mulan, Geoffrey Haley for Cherry, John “Buzz” Moyer for The Hunt and Sasha Proctor for The Outpost.
In the television competition, the Soc nominated Don Devine for Perry Mason,Simon Jayes for The Mandalorian, Jim McConkey for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Andrew Mitchell for Ratched and Henry Tirl for Wandavision.
The awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 11.
For camera operator of the year in film, the society nominated Don Devine and George Billinger for Greyhound, Jason Ellson for Mulan, Geoffrey Haley for Cherry, John “Buzz” Moyer for The Hunt and Sasha Proctor for The Outpost.
In the television competition, the Soc nominated Don Devine for Perry Mason,Simon Jayes for The Mandalorian, Jim McConkey for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Andrew Mitchell for Ratched and Henry Tirl for Wandavision.
The awards will be presented during a virtual ceremony on April 11.
- 3/25/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The history of television has been defined by the medium’s great dialogue writers. The cadence, the wit, and rhythms of characters’ banter is a distinctive trademark of the medium’s best storytellers. As American TV has evolved from being something you need to watch as carefully as you listen to, it has been rewarding to witness one of those master dialogists, Amy Sherman-Palladino, transform the rhythms of her words into filmmaking. Sherman-Palladino is a former dancer, and that is how she thinks of herself as both a writer and director, with Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” being a project conceived of in motion. “We’re doing a story about a woman [Rachel Brosnahan] whose life explodes. Midge is learning all about life, [and] we’re going through it with her,” Sherman-Palladino said. “Her life is about motion and moving forward and she’s not willing to stand still,...
- 7/7/2020
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
With “Gilmore Girls,” creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino defined their show with dialogue that exhibited a distinct cadence and whip-smart wit. Using The CW show’s extremely limited resources, the duo put what little time they had into long walk-and-talk master shots in which the scene’s rhythm stemmed from pacing the performances.
“’Gilmore Girls’ was like the greatest gig in the entire world,” said Sherman-Palladino when she and Palladino were recent guests on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We were sort of ran crazy over the Warner Bros. lot. We were really left alone and we got to really sort of hone in and develop our style of storytelling and rhythm, but we never had a dime.”
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With “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” the team was determined to only make the show if they had the resources to create a...
“’Gilmore Girls’ was like the greatest gig in the entire world,” said Sherman-Palladino when she and Palladino were recent guests on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “We were sort of ran crazy over the Warner Bros. lot. We were really left alone and we got to really sort of hone in and develop our style of storytelling and rhythm, but we never had a dime.”
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With “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” the team was determined to only make the show if they had the resources to create a...
- 6/19/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Cinematographer M. David Mullen Navigated Season 2’s Location Shoots
With Season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amy Sherman-Palladino decided to take her show on the road, leaving cinematographer M. David Mullen to adjust to new environments. Set in New York, the ‘50s Amazon comedy about housewife-turned-comedian Midge Maisel opened its second season in Paris before transitioning to an idyllic resort in the Catskills of Upstate New York. And while there was “a lot of fun” to be had with each location, Mullen had to grapple with new logistical challenges in each case, to do with available space, lighting, weather and more.
While navigating the complexities of these location shoots, the Dp was also undertaking some of the most ambitious tracking shots to be found on television today—typically, without so much as a single storyboard, apart from the odd montage involving visual effects.
Speaking with Deadline from his office, with production on Season 3 currently underway, Mullen reflects on the...
While navigating the complexities of these location shoots, the Dp was also undertaking some of the most ambitious tracking shots to be found on television today—typically, without so much as a single storyboard, apart from the odd montage involving visual effects.
Speaking with Deadline from his office, with production on Season 3 currently underway, Mullen reflects on the...
- 6/14/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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