George Lyon

Hey All, Does anyone know Vittorio Storaros lens choices ( i.e. brand) for his 1.85: 1 pictures, mostly shot in the 80's/90's, such as The Sheltering Sky, Tucker, Reds ( I believe this was a 1.85 picture), and Dick Tracy? Can someone comment on whether or not my assumption is correct that he utilized the older Cookes for the majority of his earlier work, pre dating and including Last Tango? Did he use re-housed Cookes for later shoots? Mr Mullen, when we say a healthy overexposure are we talking a 2/3 stop overexposure for the neg, or possibly more. Thank you Mr. Mullen for your original comments, I appreciate your time and effort. Thank you to anyone else for their continued thoughts and information on these subjects Best, G

Hey All, Can anyone delve into Storaros negative exposure preferences? I have read in the past he would overexpose his neg to get a rich, full negative. Is that true even while shooting for ENR, or was this a technique pre- Reds? Does anyone know how much, and if he did overexpose his neg, and on what movies? He is also obviously a huge fan of Technovision lenses. Can anyone provide a timeline tree for his use of lenses. It seems to me he utilized the Cooke Speed Panchros for the majority of his earlier work up to and including Last Tango in Paris. When starting to shoot Anamorphic he chose the Technovision anamorphics ( utilizing Cooke glass), and then moved on to the newer/ 80's Technovision anamorphics made up of Zeiss and Cooke glass, utilizing both old and new within the same movie(ex. Last Emperor/ Little Buddha). And now he shoots mainly with the S4's and Technovision remodded anamorphics utilizing the same S4 glass. Is this about right? Can others add to the examples of work? Thanks, G