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Podcast: Cinematography Podcast - Cam Noir
Episode: Ula Pontikos, BSC captures unease in The Man in My Basement
Description: The Cinematography Podcast Episode 329: Ula Pontikos, BSC
The psychological thriller The Man in My Basement is about Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins), a Black man in Sag Harbor, New York, who is down on his luck, unemployed, and facing foreclosure on his ancestral family home. In a desperate financial situation, Charles accepts a bizarre and extremely lucrative offer from a mysterious, wealthy white businessman named Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe). Bennet proposes to rent Charles's basement for a hefty sum—enough to clear his debts—for a few months.
To translate director Nadia Latif’s four-year vision from f...