Wes Anderson - Centered

Created by Kogonada, a South Korean filmmaker and regular contributor to Sight & Sound, Centered is just another of his projects centered around dissecting the signature cinematographical nuances of iconic directors. Back in 2012 he brought us a similarly themed analysis of Stanley Kubrick's usage of one point perspective, but this year he takes a look at Wes Anderson's usage of meticulous center framing (Done in collaboration with Robert Yeoman). There's a real love of symmetry present here, and I've always had the feeling that Anderson goes through some real painstaking effort to stage the characters in each shot as if they were pawns on a chess board.

Edgar Wright And The Art of Close-Ups

Slash Film created this really cool interview with Edgar Wright (Director of Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Hot Fuzz, The World's End ), which goes into his signature technique of using close ups in his various movies.

Edgar offers some really good insight as to his reasoning behind why he used close ups in fun, unorthodox manners to give his movies some memorable cinematographic flair. Some of his insight is stuff I never noticed, which really has me itching to dust off some DVD's and rewatch his body of work. Following having concluded the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, Mr. Wright is slated to direct the upcoming Marvel  Ant Man feature