Kristopher Tapley on Bradley Cooper, “Crafting an unconventional, powerful love story.”

Production still, Bradley Cooper directing

I received an email from The American Society of Cinematographers this afternoon alerting me to a feature written by Kristopher Tapley, Orchestrating Maestro. The piece was written for Queue, a NetFlix publication, and while it starts off as a bit of a puff piece, the backstage and technical information is pretty fantastic.

The piece is extremely well written. Tapley guided me through the story quickly with subheads such as It Started With a Test, It Started With a Rhythm, It Started With a Frame.

Here’s a link to the media-rich feature, and here’s Bradley Cooper on the Skip Intro podcast talking about the making of the film and his commitment to research.

The email from the American Society of Cinematographers.
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By Stephen Brockelman

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