Ryan Coogler sent his go-to cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw the script for “ Sinners ” the night before she started shooting Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl.”

“I read it and I was just blown away, because if you don’t know anything about the storyline and you read something like that, that’s so unique,” Arkapaw says. She responded to Coogler’s script by sending him a long email. “I just unloaded all my thoughts about how it made me feel, the visual stuff that popped out, and what I liked about it.”

Set in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era, “Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan as identical twins Smoke and Stack, who return to town after encountering the Chicago mob. The twins rally the local community to help build a juke joint. However, when the sun sets, vampires show

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