Directors Guild Panel 2013
I got my annual front and center seats to the DGA panel of nominated best directors. This year was a great line-up: Tom Hooper (Les Miz), Ben Affleck (Argo), Katheryn Bigelow (Zero Dark 30), Ang Lee (Life of Pi) and
THE KING’S SPEECH (2010, Hooper)
Tom Hooper (director of HBO's His Dark Materials, which in fact does not use these types of negative-space compositions) got a lot of use of oblique camera angles in this movie as well as in HBO's John Adams. In both