Renowned for his “broad range of styles” working alongside directors such as Tim Burton and Boaz Yakin, Czapsky has cemented himself as a chameleon of the cinematography profession.
Though a box office flop, the dark New York atmosphere captured by Czapsky provided the perfect backdrop for Nicolas Cage’s “outrageously unbridled performance,”[6] and helped the film garner a cult following.
Czapsky's fluidity behind the lens helped to differentiate the surrealistic suburbs from the darkness of Edwards isolation giving the film an “ethereal,”[7] atmosphere.
More recently, Czapsky further diversified his genre palette working with directors Boaz Yakin and Dito Montiel on the action movies Safe and Fighting.
The former starring Jason Statham and the latter Channing Tatum, the use of “graceful single shot sequences,”[11] helped to capture the thrills characteristic of such movies.