Sweet Land
"...scene after scene of glorious 35mm images. "
Jeanette Catsoulis, The New York Times
"...breathtaking levels of color and clarity. "
Rob Nelson, Village Voice
"...Sweet land is gorgeously shot. "
Lou Lumenic, New York Post "
Selim, cinematographer David Tumblety and a superb cast work together
to create a believable, poignant, and haunting evocation of a long-
lost way of life. "
Gene Seymour, Newsday
"The director employs cinematographer David Tumblety to capture
the sun- coated vistas. Sweet Land is literally painted with light;
each frame filled with a Midwestern sense of interior shadow and glow,
while also permitting the expansive countryside to speak for itself
in progressively more luminous ways that would make Terrence Malick
green with envy. This is one of the finest shot films of the year."
Brian Orndorf, The Film Jerk.com
"...stunningly lensed indie. "
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Brooklyn Lobster
...warm, at times elegiac images (by David Tumblety) that showcase
the neighborhood's salt-abraded beauty. "
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Press
Last Ball
"For inspiration, Callahan didn't look far. The film takes place
in Hastings, N.Y., a town near Callahan's hometown. Cinematographer
David Tumblety managed to capture Hastings in both its beauty and emptiness.
The silent snow over the rooftops, the low-hanging branches over the
old Croton Aqueduct Trail, the spreading sky over the Hudson River brushed
with rosy sunset tips, the crumbling buildings and abandoned streets.
Part Norman Rockwell, part industrial decay, …."
Brita Brundege, Fairfield Weekly
Red Betsy
"David Tumblety’s cinematography catches the autumnal ambience
of wood smoke in the air and the golden slumber of changing leaves."
Duane Dudek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
"The movie’s beautifully shot, in lonely shades of brown
and gray that suggest James Wyeth."
Kent Williams, The Isthmus
"Cinematographer David Tumblety works visual magic with scenes
illuminated by dying sunlight and oil lamps, in an unforced unhurried
portrait depiction of splendor and heartache in Midwestern American
life."
Charles Cassady Jr., Cleveland Free Times
"... viewed through the lens of cinematographer David Tumblety.
Suffused with golds and oranges, the landscape looks warm and inviting."
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle