Director

Sam Mendes

9 prints

Mendes thinks about color architecturally. American Beauty's red roses against suburban beige announced itself as a film about color from its opening image. Road to Perdition's grey-blue melancholy, photographed by Conrad Hall in his last film, is one of Hollywood's most formally beautiful works of the 2000s. 1917's journey from grey dawn to orange hellfire tracks a moral as much as a physical journey.