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Unit photography by Kerry Brown, courtesy of Netflix. Additional images courtesy of Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC.

Opposite and this page,
left: Louis Waters
(Robert Redford) and
Addie Moore (Jane
Fonda), who have both
lost their spouses, find
unexpected romance in
the feature Our Souls
at Night. Below:
Cinematographer
Stephen Goldblatt, ASC,
BSC (right) waves from
his perch atop a
Chapman/Leonard Titan
crane.

BSC has a history with Redford as a
longtime participant in the actor's
Sundance Lab program. "I've been
working as an adviser at the Sundance
Directors Lab every June for more than
20 years," Goldblatt says.
The director of Our Souls at
Night, Ritesh Batra, is a graduate of the
lab, and Redford felt that he and
Goldblatt should meet. The cinematographer recalls, "I looked at his film The
Lunchbox [AC April '14] and read the
script for Our Souls at Night, and I loved
it - it's exactly the kind of film I want
to do." After a positive first meeting,
however, months went by during which
Goldblatt didn't hear anything. "Then
on a Saturday morning," he recalls with
a laugh, "they said, 'Can you be in
Colorado on Monday?'"
Goldblatt headed to Colorado
and started prep with Batra. The duo
quickly bonded as they discussed
the script in detail, shared ideas and
refined their approach. An otherwise
smooth preproduction did hit a speed
bump, though, when it came time to
choose a camera. "The [Arri] Alexa
is my favorite," Goldblatt submits.
"Unfortunately, it is not a 4K camera,

and Netflix insists on 4K. So I was
required to use the Sony F55.
"The crucial scenes in the movie,
the ones at its heart, take place at night,"
the cinematographer continues.
"Lighting was the key - you make it
look dark, but it isn't really dark. You
light to what the sensor can handle."
In addition to night work, the
script also featured a number of driving
scenes. "I hate car shooting because it's
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so cumbersome and difficult," Goldblatt
says. To minimize his footprint on and
around the car, the cinematographer
opted to shoot driving scenes with
Canon's C300 Mark II camera. "Quite
honestly, I regret not using it as the A
camera," he laments. "It was superb at
night. The combination of that camera
with the LED lighting we used really
transformed the experience. Normally,
going into a car, it can take four hours
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