Some stills from the featurette about shooting IMAX on the film Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan, with cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema. In the video, editor Lee Smith states that: “70 something percent of the film is the full IMAX format” +++ LINK Dunkirk featurette video on YouTube
D A Pennebaker has left us, my condolences to his family and friends. Click on an image to start slide show. +++ D A Pennebaker was a pioneer of cinema vérité, along with Richard Leacock and producer Robert Drew, notably shooting and editing PRIMARY, the landmark documentary about the 1960 presidential campaign. For me, Pennebaker’s [...]
+++ 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 [...]
— Great in-depth presentation by the Mad Max : Fury Road director of photography, John Seale, ACS ASC, and the second unit cinematographer, David Burr, ACS about the making of this old-school film. Watch this on vimeo +++
Masterful execution of bank robbery / chase by director Edgar Wright, with dp Bill Pope, cut to “Bellbottoms” by editors Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss I especially like the first 2 1/2 minutes: introduction to the main character, with glimpses of the robbery from the getaway driver’s perspective. Great pop cinema. LINK http://bit.ly/BabyDriverOpening
A funny take on the actor turned superhero during an obligatory press junket interview. Despite very bad reviews, the DC movie is breaking box office records. watch on YouTube +++
+++ A look back at some of the wonderful films of 2015, and 6 trends I noticed in the past year on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site 6 Trends 1. Long Takes 2. Elastic Frame 3. Shooting Negative 4. Digital Finesse 5. Monitors Rival Theaters 6. Large Format +++ Link: http://bit.ly/2015Review6TrendsThefilmbook
— An amazing historical video document in HD color: Berlin filmed at the end of the war, 70 years ago, that ends with an astounding fly over. +++
————————– A magical clothes dance This charming, funny video by Tell No One (Luke White and Remi Weekes) was made as a kind of showcase for the clothes. +++ watch on Vimeo +++ links Tell No One pastemagazine: London Filmmakers Talk Experimental Video Blog, Tell No One +++ via Pierre-Hugues Galien +++
———————- Another film about teenagers by the maverick director and photographer Larry Clark. First offered on Clark’s web site, it will now be available on iTunes. +++ +++