PTA lenses

[Walt van der Aar]

Hi,
I just read an article from kodak about Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie Licorice Pizza (https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/licorice-pizza). In the article they are talking about 2 speciality lenses Anderson used (and has used in the past). 

"PTA knew going into “Phantom Thread” how he would thematically use some of his favorite lenses, like the 14mm “Gordon Willis lens” or the antique 50mm antique Pathe he had converted to spherical (it was used to shoot anamorphic on “There Will Be Blood”)."

Does anybody know which 50mm pathe lens and which 14mm they are talking? I'm intrigued!

[Dom Jaeger]

The Pathe lens (actually a 43mm) is described in this AC article on There Will Be Blood:

https://theasc.com/ac_magazine/January2008/ThereWillBeBlood/page1.html

Not sure about the 14mm "Gordon Willis lens". Perhaps it's another typo and they meant 40mm, since Willis often used that focal length, a 40mm was used for much of The Godfather for instance. I don't know of any classic 14mm cinema lenses from the period Willis was shooting, the closest might be the 14.5mm Angenieux, but I've never heard Willis particularly associated with that lens.

[Shawn Martin]

I was confused when I searched the Kodak article and couldn't find anything about a 14mm, so just as a heads up for anyone else, that quote is from a 2017 Indiewire article, about Phantom Thread: https://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-cinematography-1201909965/

It may just be another error on that author's part.