Images from the the last 4 minutes of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 masterpiece “The Gospel According to Saint Matthew”. The sequence starts with the descent of Christ’s body from the cross, his burial, & the subsequent visit to an empty tomb. The film ends with Jesus telling the disciples that he will always be with [...]
— Our friend Jon Fauer has posted a video shot by the folks at Servicevision in Barcelona, demonstrating their new anamorphic lenses. The footage shows the 35mm, 75mm and 100mm at T2 and T2.8, and was shot with an Alexa. (The AC, by the way, is very good at those wide open stops.) The 35mm [...]
— In an interview with Carolyn Giardina for The Hollywood Reporter, Emmanuel Lubezki shares his excitement about HDR (High Dynamic Range), in order to get ride of “the gap” between current digital cameras and what he is used to getting on film negative. +++ Link http://bit.ly/1mdxgAN +++
Larry Wright has posted 100 photos taken on the set of 2001, A Space Odyssea +++ links: Larry Wright’s post of 100 photos plus these 27 “stragglers”: +++
– I translated and posted some excerpts from Philippe Rousselot’s book on cinematography, on my blog on theasc.com +++ link http://bit.ly/ascRousselotSBook +++
A skit on the Saturday Night Live TV show features the cast playing rapper Jay-Z and sister-in-law Solange explaining away their infamous elevator fight by explaining that she was trying to get a spider off him. +++
– This is a public service announcement about a huge computer security problem, the biggest one in the history of the internet. The Heartbleed bug (aka CVE-2014-0160) has made many sites using https security vulnerable for the past 2 years, to random downloads of information, including user names and passwords. The range of sites that [...]
— Panavision has introduced the Primo 70s, a new series of lenses designed for 70mm, but compatible with the Alexa, Dragon, F55 and Phantom 65. I’ve had the opportunity to see them in projection and the quality is truly astounding. The Primo 70s are made up of 11 Primes from 27mm to 250mm and 2 [...]
I gathered these 4 series of photos of the Paris Interaction event hosted by K5600 Lighting, Transvideo and Little Grand Studio. Marc Galerne‘s concept was to facilitate exchanges by filmmakers around lighting and monitoring gear. The concept worked ! The photos were taken by Jacques Delacoux, Jean-Noël Ferragut, Samuel Renollet and me. J’ai rassemblé ces [...]
– I posted a video summary of the workshop that I organized with Eric Kress at the Gothenburg Film Studios during Gokinema. This 4-screen video offers a summary of the 12 lighting variations, showing the dailies from each set-up along with lighting diagrams. You can see the post on thefilmbook blog on theasc. I have [...]