Munich

[Guest jbraver]

I for one am very exited to see what Janusz Kaminski is going to do with a story this dark and heavy. He hasnt done anything this serious and dark since Savign Private Ryan. Ive heard rumors that a trailer for Munich is attached to Jarhead. we'll see

 

Jake

Edited November 4, 2005 by jbraver

[Max Jacoby]

Well it's still Spielberg...

 

What's worse, he's doing a 'serious' subject. I don't mind him doing popcorn fare, but whenever he tries to do something serious it still ends up being a very heavyhanded and manipulating.

[Christian Appelt]

Just guessing for fun:

 

The film will have desaturated colors and look extremely contrasty. Oh, and most release prints (except some prestige premiere prints for selected theatres) will look unsharp and grainy with no detail thanks to sloppy duping and release printing. :rolleyes: Let's wait and see...

[Max Jacoby]

It's shot on Cooke S4s, so it won't look terribly sharp either.

[John Holland]

It's shot on Cooke S4s, so it won't look terribly sharp either.

 

 

Sorry what is the probs. with S4s , i agree had enough of low sat and high contrast , think its old hat in features , i dont expect them to look like old ads for Irish Stout . Boring , been there down that . john holland

[Joseph White]

i don't think there's necessarily a "problem" with Cooke S4 optics, but one of their inherent qualities is a slightly "softer" image, why a lot of DP's who are used to perhaps Primos or Zeiss lenses with a little diffusion like them. I've had some nice results with them on music videos - the 75mm is a very flattering lens for close-ups of women especially in my opinion, but I'm also a bit of a sharpness fanatic so I'm finding myself really enjoying Zeiss Super Speeds quite a bit lately even though they're older lenses. They fall off really nicely, too.

 

I think this is Kaminski's first S4 show if I'm not mistaken. Plus with the amount of Dior and other diffusion he often uses it'll be interesting to see what he puts on the lens in addition to the already "creamy" quality of the S4's.

[Max Jacoby]

While I think Cooke S4s looks very nice on TV, on the big screen their lack of sharpness becomes apparent very quickly. There is never one point that looks really in focus, making it sometimes very hard for your eye to decide where to look. This is most obvious when you have low-contrast, high key images.

 

I have noticed this many times, especially on films that I have worked on and where we had printed rushes. On 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' for instance there were some wide interior shots that just looked soft. We checked the flange depth of the camera, shot sharpness tests, tried a different lens of the same focal lenght and in the end came to the conclusion that it was the lens itself and there was nothing to be done about it. I had this confirmed by another focus-puller whose sharpness test revealed that the lenses in general are not as sharp as Zeiss or Primos and that one of the wider lenses (I think it was the 32mm) is softer than the rest.

[Rolfe Klement]

Just saw the trailer (with JARHEAD) which opened today. Looks like 21 grams with 50% desaturation :)

 

They were filming in malta when I was there in Summer but you couldn't tell from the trailer

 

thanks

 

Rolfe

[Guest jbraver]

http://www.munichmovie.com/trailer_sm.html

 

I dont even know what to say..... it just looks amazing

Edited November 5, 2005 by jbraver

[Kevin Zanit]

I saw the trailer tonight in front of Jarhead (which was fantastic, great movie, great looking).

 

I thought the trailer was well put together, and looked good, I think the film will be solid. I personally feel Spielberg is a great director, who generally makes very good movies. I think Munich will follow suit.

 

I am a huge fan of Janusz Kaminski's work. I think he is one of the greatest cinematographers working today.

 

That said, if you disagree, I honestly don't feel like getting into some typical message board dispute of the merits of Steven Spielberg as a director, or Janusz as a Cinematographer. Save it, I respect your opinion, keep it at that.

 

 

Kevin Zanit

[Max Jacoby]

http://www.munichmovie.com/trailer_sm.html

 

I dont even know what to say..... it just looks amazing

 

Golda Meir speaking English. Great...

 

I do realize it is a convention that in American films about foreigners these people have to speak English, because American audiences to not take to subtitles well, but to someone like me who is used to reading subtitles and speaks several languages fluently this has always annoyed me. At least if every character spoke proper English I would find this less objectionable, but very often actors speak English with the accent of the country that they are supposed to be from, which makes for some unvoluntary humar, like Ralph Fiennes in 'Schindler's List' who sounded like Dr Strangelove! Also in that film, some Germans spoke English with a German accent and some simply spoke German. At least be consistent in what you do! Although the worst example is still one of the Indiana Jones, where one of the Nazis is supposed to say something in German, but actually only says something which merely sounds like German, but in fact doesn't make any sense!

[Mark T. Ingham]

Golda Meir speaking English. Great...

 

I do realize it is a convention that in American films about foreigners these people have to speak English, because American audiences to not take to subtitles well, but to someone like me who is used to reading subtitles and speaks several languages fluently this has always annoyed me. At least if every character spoke proper English I would find this less objectionable, but very often actors speak English with the accent of the country that they are supposed to be from, which makes for some involuntary humor, like Ralph Fiennes in 'Schindler's List' who sounded like Dr Strangelove! Also in that film, some Germans spoke English with a German accent and some simply spoke German. At least be consistent in what you do! Although the worst example is still one of the Indiana Jones, where one of the Nazis is supposed to say something in German, but actually only says something which merely sounds like German, but in fact doesn't make any sense!

 

I love Fiennes performance in Schindler's List, but, I agree, his adenoidal Strangelovian slur ranks right up there with Gregory Peck's over-the-top German accent from "The Boys from Brazil." "I pahhhrdon you." :blink: :D

 

I would have loved to have seen some subtitled Hebrew spoken in "Munich." Hopefully more subtitled movies are introduced into the U.S., and this marketplace gets over its phobia of them. I even see a pretty universal disdain for subtitled films here at film school which really bothers me. Those people are missing out on the exciting larger world of non-English cinema!

[Dominik Muench]

Although the worst example is still one of the Indiana Jones, where one of the Nazis is supposed to say something in German, but actually only says something which merely sounds like German, but in fact doesn't make any sense!

 

 

LOL yeah i hate it when they do that, as ift would be so hard to ask someone to make up a proepr sentence for them. Get a dictionary or something.

[Christian Appelt]

I remember a trade show presentation of ROCKETEER in Germany, they had not finished the dubbing, and there was Timothy Dalton talking some kind of Pidgin-German - we almost laughed our heads off.

On other productions, they must have had excellent dialect coachs, like THE GREAT ESCAPE when Richard Attenborrough and Gordon Jackson try to camouflage as Germans.

 

Some time ago, a Laurel&Hardy two-reeler made in 1931 as a foreign-language version with the boys talking German was found in a Russian film archive. It was screened at the German Filmmuseum two weeks ago, and while Stan did a good Job delivering his lines phonetically, Ollie was really hard to understand.

 

L & H Speak German

L & H - Found In Translation

Finding L & H in Moscow

[Max Jacoby]

I remember in 'The Rocketeer' it was that they called one of the Nazi zepplins 'Luxemburg'. People were upset about that, because Luxemburg had nothing to do with the Nazis and in fact got occupied by them during WW2. Some people should have paid more attention in history classes.

[Dominik Muench]

Some people should have paid more attention in history classes.

 

like the romans in "gladiator" that hand out printed flyers for the next fight :)

[Steven C. Boone]

I remember in 'The Rocketeer' it was that they called one of the Nazi zepplins 'Luxemburg'. People were upset about that, because Luxemburg had nothing to do with the Nazis and in fact got occupied by them during WW2. Some people should have paid more attention in history classes.

 

I just saw Clint Eastwood's Firefox for the first time since I was a kid. The Russian accents are insane. I closed my eyes and could hear Bela Lugosi, Lech Walesa, Werner Herzog and Boris Badenov (at least he's Russian, if a cartoon). They were all lit from below the chin, like the villain in Battlestar Galactica. The Cold War was something else.

 

But I digress...

[Max McAdams]

I have to say i'm looking foward to see Spielberg attempt yet another serious "real life drama". Perhaps im alone here but I really do feel that subtlety and Steven do not go together. He replaces beauty with slam bang in your face visuals and often goes for the cliche look that is popular at the time (i.e de-saturation now, purposeful noise and grain within Schindler's List, etc.... This film has the potential to be mysterious and intriguing. Well find out.

Edited November 8, 2005 by Max McAdams

[Ignacio Aguilar]

The trailers are framed at 2.35:1. Since it was shot with spherical lenses that would mean that it has been shot in Super 35 (the second Kaminski & Spielberg film in the format, after Minority Report). I find it surprising, since Spielberg once said that it took him more time to compose in Scope and this film has been shot very quickly ir order to release it at the end of the year.

[Guest jbraver]

apple has it up in HD now

 

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/munich/

[Boone Hudgins]

Even with a lot of diffusion, and apparently S4s, the trailer still looks pretty sharp. In HD anyway. I like the look though. It seems very true to the period, though I can't quite explain why.

[Ignacio Aguilar]

Shooting Munich: Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kaminski Update the Gritty ?70s Thriller.

 

Kaminski cites such realistic thrillers as "The French Connection", "Parallax View" and "Three Days of the Condor" as inspirations for his work on Munich.

 

Really cool, isn't it?

[PadawanOsswe]

In most foreign films, people are usually speaking to quickly, therefore subtitles go by FAST. Which means the audience gets lost in the plot and dont have enough time to read and enjoy the films visuals. I'm sure this is not just an American audience problem.

 

 

Spielburg was great with SPR. this looks good as well

[Max Jacoby]

In most foreign films, people are usually speaking to quickly, therefore subtitles go by FAST. Which means the audience gets lost in the plot and dont have enough time to read and enjoy the films visuals. I'm sure this is not just an American audience problem.

Foreign films as in non-English films?

 

I have been watching films with subtitles my whole life and it never posed a problem to me. It take some getting used to of course, but if one never starts one never will be able to do it.

[Dan Goulder]

Golda Meir speaking English. Great...

 

Actually, Golda Meir was from the U.S. She DID speak English.