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What Upstream Color Says About the Future of Indie Filmmaking
This isn't a movie-review blog, but I'd nonetheless like to urge everyone reading to go out and see Upstream Color if you're in New York this weekend, and to catch it when you can if you're not. That's not just …
Unused “Ridley-grams” from Alien
If you read Barbara Robertson's most recent interview with Prometheus VFX supervisor Richard Stammers, you know about the "Ridley-grams" that director Ridley Scott would use to communicate his visual ideas with the film's crew. He’s an incredibly visual director. He’s …
Shooting Zero Dark Thirty: 10 Tidbits from the Trenches
With awards season running at full throttle, much ink has been spilled about the political implications of Zero Dark Thirty. The controversy has nearly overshadowed director Kathryn Bigelow's pulse-quickening achievement in translating the boots-on-the-ground details of the CIA's long-running manhunt …
A Long, Wide Look at Eastwood’s Craft
Clint Eastwood has directed 32 films to date and starred in countless others, but he rarely talks about his filmmaking process. Fans of his films, however, know more than a few things about his technique, from his use of wide …
Five Questions in the Wake of Disney’s Lucasfilm Acquisition
I keep trying to imagine what a Star Wars movie would feel like if it opened with one of Disney's magic-castle logos instead of the rolling drum beats of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. It's hard to imagine, but it …
Stormstock Catpures Hurricane Sandy’s Fury as It Crashes into U.S. Coast
News camera crew and talent stuck on storm duty today may have no other choice than to be chasing this category 1 hurricane heading up the East Coast. Here's hoping all the rest of you, your cameras and your glass …
20 Cameras Used on Barry Levinson’s Horror Movie The Bay
Fact and fiction blur in The Bay, a new horror movie that uses the real-world presence of flesh-eating bacteria in the Chesapeake Bay as a jumping-off point for an apocalyptic tale of biological catastrophe. There's been a bit of a …
David Fincher, Blur Studio, and The Goon Go Grassroots
With the creative backing of David Fincher and artist/writer Eric Powell, Blur Studio has taken to Kickstarter to raise $400,000 in support of a story reel for a proposed animated feature film based on Powell's small-press comic book series The …
Film’s Not Dead Yet, Part 2: FotoKem’s Workflow for The Master in 70mm, 35mm, and 4K
Curious about the deliverables for The Master, which hit theaters earlier this month in 70mm, 35mm, and 4K DCP formats? So was I. I asked FotoKem, which provided large-format and finishing services for the film, to fill in some of …