Killers of the Flower Moon

John Shell · October 27, 2023

The colorist(Yvan Lucas) mentioned on his Instagram that he used an Autochrome LUT, a 3 strip technicolor process for the last scene and a classic bleach bypass for some other scenes

John Shell · October 27, 2023

On 10/25/2023 at 8:32 AM, Stephen Perera said:

that thing digital has....

Which thing ??

David Mullen ASC · October 31, 2023

On 10/23/2023 at 9:52 PM, Tyler Purcell said:

Yea friend of mine showed me a video on his phone, dismayed it was nearly all Alexa BTS footage, asking why it was shot on the Alexa when it says 35mm. I had to explain to him that they use Alexa for night scenes a lot these days. I have no idea what video he was watching sadly, been on a shoot for a month.

I talked to Prieto, he said about 85% of the movie was shot on film, but most of the night exteriors (not all) were shot digitally.

Jon O'Brien · October 31, 2023

On 10/27/2023 at 11:12 PM, John Shell said:

Which thing ??

... that ...... thing. It's the video look. It's just a thing film shooters notice about video.

Stephen Perera · October 31, 2023

10 hours ago, Jon O'Brien said:

... that ...... thing. It's the video look. It's just a thing film shooters notice about video.

precisely that......its not pseudo-connoisseur-ism (?!).....when of a certain age and many many many years if cinema-going one delves into the visual directory in the brain that detects differences...... much like the amusing scenes of the priest doing his censorship in film 'Cinema Paradiso' I will be muttering to myself...."that's digital" for my own amusement....

Edited October 31, 2023 by Stephen Perera

Tyler Purcell · November 1, 2023

On 10/30/2023 at 5:59 PM, David Mullen ASC said:

I talked to Prieto, he said about 85% of the movie was shot on film, but most of the night exteriors (not all) were shot digitally.

Yea, that's what I had guessed. Prieto is a great guy and very talented, he knows the best places to use the formats. Honestly, if I were doing such a big movie, I'd probably do the same thing.

In your conversation, did you by any chance ask why they didn't make any prints? Seems like such a 70mm release to me. I wonder if they just didn't bother due to cost since the film itself was so costly.

David Mullen ASC · November 1, 2023

3 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

Yea, that's what I had guessed. Prieto is a great guy and very talented, he knows the best places to use the formats. Honestly, if I were doing such a big movie, I'd probably do the same thing.

In your conversation, did you by any chance ask why they didn't make any prints? Seems like such a 70mm release to me. I wonder if they just didn't bother due to cost since the film itself was so costly.

I didn’t ask but I recall way back that the 70mm prints of “Hamlet” were quite expensive due to the running time, but that was also because of the mag striping needed back then for sound.

Maybe Apple didn’t want it… they aren’t big on physical media!

Stephen Perera · November 1, 2023

The Wager.....Scorcese new film already in the pipeline starring DiCaprio.......again from David Grann author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Tyler Purcell · November 2, 2023

17 hours ago, David Mullen ASC said:

Maybe Apple didn’t want it… they aren’t big on physical media!

Ah true! I mean Netflix has done three thus far.

Jon O'Brien · November 2, 2023

Might have to go and see The Wager. Looks pretty epic.

Brian Drysdale · November 6, 2023

An article on the editing of "Killers of the Flower Moon"

https://www.redsharknews.com/eight-editing-lessons-from-martin-scorseses-killers-of-the-flower-moon

massimo losito · January 11

On 10/26/2023 at 9:57 PM, Robin Phillips said:

I havent seen an operational one available for rent for a long time. you can find them on ebay, if you know someone mechanically inclined enough. I dont know if Photosonics will even touch them anymore. they were primarily scientific cameras.

The idea of Kodak doing a low run of such a high ISO film is disconnected from the reality of the production and market for film. You'd have to buy a million feet or more, and the R&D may prove its simply not possible (or not possible without a massive effort that would make the material vastly more expensive than digital alternatives)

I have an operational Photo-Sonics 4B camera that I use an year ago for an upcoming big feature ?

And also few 16 Photosonics ( one that have an Ultramax format ).

For more infos www.lositointernationalfilms.com

or

https://ymcinema.com/2023/09/27/meet-the-photo-sonics-actionmaster-ultramax-high-speed-500-fps-film-camera/

https://www.instagram.com/photosonicsguru?igsh=ZHM5MTU1cG41ZjVs&utm_source=qr

Thanks!

Max

Brian Drysdale · January 11

"The Wager" has been BBC Radio 4's book of the week: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001tr2w

So you can run the movie in your head.

Mark Kenfield · January 12

Saw it last night and really enjoyed the experience. Very engaging and it didn't feel over-long or drawn-out (which is something I felt very strongly with Silence).

Looked fantastic (never a surprise with Rodrigo behind the camera). I particularly loved the look of the daytime exteriors - which felt rather more "lit" than the average daytime exterior these days - I thought it was a lovely, it wasn't obvious and didn't draw your eye to it, but it felt like you could really see everything.

There was one scene that I couldn't quite wrap my head around the lighting for though. In the saloon/cafe where Ernest gets arrested. The location had big windows, but the action started so deep in this (really quite dark-walled) room, and then moved right up next to the windows, and the exposure was just perfectly even throughout (with the windows never blowing out). I'd love to know how they did that, I'm sure it can't have been anything as simple as an iris-pull.