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 All brought to you by the media complex that is currently bleeding out taking the spent maggot baby boomers with it Hipster chic demands that I head in the opposite direction and seek out examples of "bad cinematography" flat, poorly lit, out of focused, boom in the shot, etc What are some examples of badly shot films I should check out? A very good example is Phedom Papamichael, ASC, who is a brilliant cinematographer with extremely stylistic work under his belt like Mousehunt, Million Dollar Hotel, The Weather Man, 310 To Yuma, Identity etc, but he's also shot Sideways and The Descendants both very simple, plain looking filmsA full appreciation of cinematography requires some knowledge of the circumstances in which a difficult shot is made One of many celebrated sequences in the history of film practice—all of them certainly handsome on the screen but also remarkable for their very existence—is the redwood forest visit in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) Notes On Bad Do...