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    NEW HOLLYWOOD 1967-1976

    in Directors and Directing

    Posted

    Dear Sirs

    I'm writing a short article for the next Torino Film Festival,referring to the New Hollywood retrospective 1967/1976 ,so for write something of less flat or boring, in that era are there any common influences in the way to use light,lenses and film stocks(the retrospective will focusing on Five Easy Pieces,Mean Streets,Pat Garret and Bil ly the Kid,Klute,TheConversation,Sugarland Express,California Split ,They Shoot Horses,Don't They?,Scarecrow,TheLast Picture Show etc., to less known films like Electra Glide in Blue,Dillinger,Little Murders,The Swimmer,The Friends of Eddie Coyle,Smile,Monte Walsh, Inserts,The Culpepper Cattle Co.Cisco Pike) I really appreciate any help you can provide.

     

     

     

     

    MM Close Encounter

    in Please Critique My Work

    Posted

    Ok,my first movie by Michael Mann watched was THE KEEP (Alex Thomson BSC),great amazing,and I don't care about critics bad opinions that I discovered in years later,It was my master for Cinematography and Direction,a miliar stone.Ok,I was young,not yet fluent in cinema as now (and AC Subscriber) but that movie enlighted my eye(anamorphic addicted) & my mind.Than comes Thief( Donald Thorin ASC) and Manhunter(Dante Spinotti),unluckly I grew up on VHS era with Pan and Scan copies and other craps,as 4:3 crt tv-set..despite these limitations I was able to believe in this director and his skills and collaborations..so I bet and Wish Everything(of great) over him,I was right ,in fact later comes masterpieces as Last Of The Mohicans(Dante Spinotti),Heat(Dante Spinotti AIC ASC),The Insider(Dante Spinotti AIC ASC),Ali (Emmanuel Lubezki AMC ASC),Collateral(Dion Beebe, ASC ACS and Paul Cameron),Miami Vice(Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS) and Public Enemies(Dante Spinotti ASC)

    So,I'm feel on the same page over everything he does so..after years I was lucky to meet him personally..shake hands and this is my video..enjoy!

     

    British Cinematography

    in Cinematographers

    Posted

    For me There are 5 remarkable British Cinematograpeher that has leave a "sign" in my eye

    Frank Watts BSC (he made SPACE 1999 series in the 70's)

    Alex Thomson BSC (Excalibur,The Keep,Year of the Dragon,Hamlet)

    Adrial Biddle BSC (Aliens,Event Horizon)

    Chris Menges BSC (Mission,Dirty Pretty Things)

    Roger Deakins BSC (Shawshank Redemption)

    Analyzing famous DPs

    in Cinematographers

    Posted · Edited by fabio pirovano

    Nope - Mauro Fiore did The Island and Ben Seresin did Transformers 2. The asthetic you're refering to is simply Michael bay's style and all the DPs he's worked with have managed to work within that style while retaining their own fingerprint on each individual project. I would have said Bad boys 2 had a similar asthetic to Bays other movies i.e high contrast lighting, saturated colours and hyper kinetic camera moves and edits, except that it was shot super 35 instead of anamorphic, and had a bit more grain then bays other movies.

     

     

    Good words,Same happen for Tony Scott's,he can't leave his Clichè and I noticed that Bay sometimes grab something from him

    Public Enemies (Michael Mann & Dante Spinotti)

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

    Posted

    Two possibly unexplored avenues:

     

    1) The video look is blatantly intentional so as to give the characters and period a completely different psychological impact to the modern viewers. People in grainy black and white footage feel quite different than people on evening news video footage.

     

    2) The most egregious pushing of the image, past "acceptable" or "professional" levels could be Mann's vision. Does he have eyesight issues? As in, can he see that well, physically? If he literally can't see the problems, that would explain a lot.

     

    Probably F23 skills is the main reason that permit to be more Filmic than other times

     

    On Miami Vice or Collataral I were able to see difference between material shot on Sony and Viper

     

    You should watch Brad Anderson's Session 9 for understand or learning the eyesight issue...

    Public Enemies (Michael Mann & Dante Spinotti)

    in On Screen / Reviews & Observations

    Posted

    I loved the Trailer ,but is just a trailer and I don't feel to add other judgments..As somebody else wrote One of most intresting point is show 30's on HD

    About F23 I wrote a short article taking info around net and really seem be a great camera free from aberrationsMy Wordpress about PUBLIC ENEMIES ,also I loved the F23 on Bovillain's Cloverfield....

     

    For what I saw from Public Enemies trailer ,despite Collateral and Miami Vice where practical lights been great part of lighting's installations or benchmark,this time seem that the work about lightings been more complex,as they were shoot on Film...

    I notice some other angles and camera movments that are Michael Mann trademarks and back to me to The Insider ,Ali (Frazier Lenses),Miami Vice(T-Rex)

     

    That's just a feeling I could be wrong,& sorry for my english....

    Adrian Biddle's Event Horizon

    in Cinematographers

    Posted

    Hi Fabio,

     

    nice read on a great film. It's too bad that Adrian isn't here any more to be able to shoot more of it's kind!

     

    Cheers, Dave

     

     

    Hi Dave

    thanks for read and appreciate my lines about Event Horizon,I agree too bad what's happen to Adrian,too premature lost..

     

    My best Regards,Fabio

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