Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Fincher’s keenly anticipated Netflix original “Mank” is a valentine to old Hollywood glamor in the shape of a character ...

Erik Messerschmidt talks about his approach to very different but equally excellent new films: "The Killer" and "Ferrari." Just seven years ago, Messerschmidt was a respected gaffer on series like ...

On David Fincher’s Mank, cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt channeled the aesthetics of Hollywood’s Golden Age, in order to tell the story of one of its legendary figures. Written by Fincher’s late ...

Erik Messerschmidt first worked with David Fincher as a Gone Girl gaffer—in collaboration with DP Jeff Cronenweth. But Messerschmidt got his chance to mine the auteur’s rich, iconic aesthetic as ...

The Oscar-winning DP of 'Mank' combined aggressive action sequences with a painterly look for the Italian automaker’s personal story. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor There was significant pressure on ...

A couple of years ago, David Fincher’s go-to director of photography, Erik Messerschmidt, described the muted palette of the TV series “Mindhunter” as a product, in part, of the pair’s shared ...

The Killer begins with an assassin (Michael Fassbender) in a half-completed WeWork office awaiting the arrival of his latest target. As he waits, he details his vocational mantras for the audience in ...

“Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,” Marcel Proust wrote. He could easily have been referring to a string of manic, morose and sometimes quite mad artists who came and went over the ...

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Character Head Number 33, “An arch villain” (1777/1783), pewter casting (79.9% tin, 18.8% lead), 39 x 26 x 25 cm, height above ground: 105 cm (all images courtesy Belvedere ...

NEW YORK — Not long after he died in 1783, 61 extraordinary busts fashioned by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt were put on tour and immediately became a huge hit. But they were not considered art, exactly — ...