All posts tagged "35mm"
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Festival Beat: Timeless Titles Grow Old But Never Die at TCM Classic Film Festival 2019
Repertory cinema is alive and well across the world, and the TCM Classic Film Festival is the zenith of repertory celebrations. This... -
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...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s...