All posts tagged "35mm"
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Taking Your Best Shots: Kodak President of Motion Picture and Entertainment Steve Bellamy on the Value of Film
Obituaries written about the death of film have proven to be inaccurate, based upon the current crop of movies being shot on... -
How They Did It: To Shoot The Mutineer in 35mm, the Director Took a Scalpel to His Ultra-Low Budget
In 2012, I wrote down the first idea I had for The Mutineer, with the intention of shooting it the next year... -
Mixed Media: How Documentary God Knows Where I Am Used 35mm, 16mm, Super-16 and Digital For Its Haunting Story
When Linda Bishop’s body was found in an empty farmhouse in New Hampshire, her death seemed pointless and puzzling. Then officials read... -
Canoa Revisited: Felipe Cazals on His 1976 Masterpiece, Mexican History, Horror Storytelling and Politics in Filmmaking
In the interim between a Golden Age bogged down with melodramas, stereotypical treatments of masculine and pastoral glorification, and the emergence of... -
The Ripple Effects of Shooting Film: Why Using 35mm for Outlaws and Angels Made Unexpected Financial Sense
For my first feature film, I had a number of scripts ready, but the one I knew I had the best chance... -
Fighting Death, of Cinema and Humanity: László Nemes and Géza Röhrig on the Blazing Son of Saul
To walk in someone else’s shoes and see the world through their eyes is, in many ways, what moviemakers want audiences to... -
Mother Monster: Goodnight Mommy Takes New Delight in the Classic Evil Mom Trope
To watch Austrian duo Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Goodnight Mommy is to be subject to an emotional resonance and a merciless... -
Film vs. Digital: Is the Expense of Shooting on Film a Misconception?
You know the reasons you want to shoot your next film on film. Film looks better. Film gets crews and actors to... -
Archiving Anarchy: No One Will Save Your Film But You
What’s the most important moviemaking step you’re completely forgetting? Maybe it’s saving your film. If you’re a filmmaker reading this, you’re likely... -
Rewatching L’avventura in 2013
Janus Film’s newly restored print brings Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 masterpiece of Italian cinema, L’avventura, to selected theaters in black-and-white 35mm. We came into...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...