"If Bresson Had Digital Cinematography, What Might He Do?": DP Alexander Dynan on the Portraits, Inserts and VR Nightmares of The Card Counter

With The Card Counter, Paul Schrader has written another "man in[to] a room": William Tell (Oscar Isaac), an ex-torturer turned professional poker player, lives hotel to hotel, making each unit his own by wrapping their furniture in his own sterile, white sheets--"essentially bleached muslin," the film's DP Alexander Dynan says. A little light went a long way when capturing these whitened rooms on the light-sensitive, medium format Alexa LF camera. Sometimes Dynan lit Isaac journaling with nothi...