Noted mobile moviemaker Cassius Rayner has been documenting life in London in the Covid-19 era. In May he filmed graffiti artist creating a mural honor the National Health Service (NHS). The movie’s content is certainly timely and significant. But Rayner’s cinematic mastery elevates this mini-doc. Note techniques such as the establishing sequence, a high-angle shot,…

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Starting with his first feature film—”Sex, Lies, and Videotape”—Steven Soderbergh has been an experimental filmmaker. He carries on that tradition with his latest feature “High Flying Bird.” The obvious innovation–for him–is that he shot the movie with an iPhone. Of course, he wasn’t the first to do so. But as the trailer demonstrates, Soderbergh seems intent…

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