For the month of September, on The Criterion Channel: "When the opening credits read “Cinematography by James Wong Howe,” it’s a sure sign of quality. A brilliant innovator whose career spanned from the silent era to the 1970s, the Chinese American trailblazer became one of golden-age Hollywood’s preeminent cameramen, renowned for his mastery of light and shadow and pioneering use of deep-focus cinematography, low-key lighting (earning him the nickname Low-Key Howe), wide-angle lenses, and dolly shots, always in service of enhancing a film’s dramatic and psychological impact. Witness the Weegee-like tabloid punch he gives to the sleazy New York cityscapes of the noir classic SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS; the fantastical, phosphorescent colors of the witchy romantic romp BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE; and the distorted expressionist flourishes he brings to John Frankenheimer’s paranoiac nightmare SECONDS for a taste of Wong Howe’s inimitable artistry." @criterionchannel @criterioncollection #jameswonghowe www.criterionchannel.com/cinematography-by-james-wong-howe