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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

In the decades after his death in 1783, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's sculptures were exhibited in a hospital and an amusement park. Then the majority were warehoused for a hundred years before getting ...