The late, great Jean-Luc Godard re-invented the Cannes press conference during the 2108 Festival, by speaking with journalists via a smartphone using FaceTime. This post offers some of the highlights. +++ Godard’s Guernica FaceTime with Godard 1. Thinking with Your Hands 2. Editing Comes First 3. An Editing Equation 4. Separating Image & Sound 5. [...]
– I posted a closer look at Klute, a lesser-known masterpiece by Alan Pakula with pioneering cinematography by the late, great Godron Willis, ASC, with comments by fellow cinematographers Ed Lachman, Matthew Libatique & Vilmos Zsigmond, as well as my friend & colleague Stephen Pizzello, who recently completed a book about Gordon. This post is [...]
I have written a post of my impressions of the amazing Virtual Reality istallation by director Alejandro G. Iñarritu with cinematographer Emmanuel (“Chivo”) Lubezki, that I saw at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Alejandro and Chivo have previously collaborated on Birdman and The Revenant. Carne y Arena is presently showing in Los Angeles and Milan. [...]
+++ The performance of SHALLOW by Bradford Cooper and Lady Gaga at the 2019 Oscars was captured in a single-shot Steadicam “Oner”. The scene is beautifully sober, with simple backlighting and a staging and camera movement that ends up with a stunning close-up of their two faces. As Lady Gaga recounts to Jimmy Kimmel, Bradford [...]
A post about the aesthetics and tools adopted by 10 strong cinematographers for their films at Camerimage: from New Naturalism, to Neo Vérité and Cine Expressionism, from film negative to Alexa 65. link: http://bit.ly/Ten2018FilmsBenjaminB +++
This post continues my impressions of some of the current and future cinema technology presented at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam. +++ SUMMARY 1. LED Smart Light Marc Galerne K5600 Lighting, Frieder Hochheim Kinoflo 2. Texture Equaliser Daniele Siragusano – Filmlight 3. VFX in Real Time Adam Myhill from Unity and VFX consultant Habib [...]
A first post about new tools and technologies seen at IBC 2018: SUMMARY 1. HDR Bryce Button and AJA Image analyzer 2. Full Frame 3. Hydrogen Buzz 4. Netflix Effect 5. Direct View 6. HDR and fps Pete Ludé 7. Geoff Boyle 8. Bill Bennett (and Tony Davis) Real D TrueMotion link: http://bit.ly/ibcSensorsScreensThefilmbook
+++ – IBC 2016 Preview http://bit.ly/thefilmbookIBC2016preview A preview of the geography, themes & Big Screen events of IBC 2016 on thefilmbook on theASC web site +++
I posted some 100 photos of my experience at the 2015 Camerimage Festival on thefilmbook blog on theasc web site. link: bit.ly/CamerimagePhotoJournal2015 +++
dvmobile’s stereo 3D VR camera rig +++ I went to the Screen4All Forum day dedicated to Virtual Reality (or 360 Immersion), at l’Usine in Paris and took these photos of the booths and presentations +++ links Screen4All Mediakwest adastra-films.com/en digitalimmersion.fr dvmobile.fr entapano.com/jp (Entayina) gopro.com/ horamvr.com innerspacevr.com kolor.com okio-studio.com starbreeze.com video-stitch.com +++