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 based on a tribute to Gordon Willis that I organized with Stephen at Camerimage 2014.

My post on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site

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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

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I posted some 100 photos of my experience at the 2015 Camerimage Festival on thefilmbook blog on theasc web site.

link: bit.ly/CamerimagePhotoJournal2015

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I published a post looking back at what I saw and did at Camerimage
on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site
or, put differently:

Looking back at
3 Frogs
4 Seminars
& 37 photographs

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The Camerimage 2014 Schedule is online.

9 days of Screenings, Seminars, Workshops

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Camerimage has announced the films in their Main Competition, the list includes:
3 American films,
3 British films,
3 Polish films,
2 French-Canadian films **,
1 Austrian film,
1 Chinese film,
1 Palestinian film &
1 Russian film.

More details on Camerimage’s web site

Notes:
I’m disappointed not to see a French film in competition.
I include Wild as French-Canadian because the director & DP are both from Quebec, although the film could be labeled American. I guess I could also say that Birdman is Mexican

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We spoke in the café at Camerimage in Lodz about contrast, perhaps the most important aspect of cinematography.

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link

http://bit.ly/ascSavidesContrast

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- photos of Bydgoszcz
- recap of the winners of the Main Competition
- recap of some of the educational events
- informal portraits of people I saw at Camerimage

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I posted the second installment of my DPs and Gaffers series on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site. Here they discuss how they put together their lighting list.

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