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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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8