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Max Jacoby

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  1. There do not seem to be any dvds of his films, even in Asia. I checked some Asian sites already. Well The Terrorizers is available, but does not have any English subtitles. A friend thought that there should be HK editions, but so far I haven't found any.
  2. Most of this glass has been around for a while and is from older lenses. I know, talk about professional deformation! Can't help but count the edges on the out-of-focus highlights to find out which lenses they've used.
  3. Today at HMV I saw the beginning of the film on an HD screen and I did notice a big drawback to the 65mm Imax scenes: the Hasselblad lenses have a horrible 5 iris-bladed bokeh! Really does not look sexy at all, don't know who had the good idea to pack only 5 iris blades into these lenses. Arri used 7 for their rehoused 65mm Hasselblad lenses, that's much nicer already.
  4. Unfortunately Edward Yang's films are not available on dvd, except Yi-Yi. Called up the Cinemathèque in Luxembourg, but they only have a print of Yi-Yi also.
  5. Saw it ages ago in the cinema. A friend dragged me there and I only went because it's shot in Luxembourg. As you can probably guess, I didn't care much for it.
  6. You don't know what you're missing then Stephen, the food is really good. And then there is also the cute Asian waitress.
  7. Yep that's one of the amazing things about Andrei Rublev, it is basically a big-budget art film.
  8. I wouldn't call Tarkovsky 'social realism', it's about as far away from that as one can get, hence why he always had problems with censors in Soviet Russia.
  9. You have a 81 filter and an ND3 filter combined into a single filter, so you need to compensate for both, i.e. 1 2/3 stops. If you're ever unsure about filter compensation, just take a reading with you light meter, then put the filter over it and take another reading, the difference is how much you need to compensate.
  10. If your film is under 15 minutes it can get into practically any festival. Cannes for instance has a 15 Minute limit on short films. The next limit is 20 Minutes, anything above that and it becomes tricky. Over 30 Minutes and most festivals won't accept your film anymore, no matter how good it may be.
  11. Ah any films in particular that you have in mind there, because I don't think I've ever seen a Russian Social Realism film in my life.
  12. Good choice for lunch Stephen ;) I'm casting so I can't make it unfortunately.
  13. Casue he shot Terminator and T2? Or maybe because he shot The Santa Clause 2 ? ;)
  14. Oh now I'm curious who will admit to being a mamma Mia fan!
  15. With zooms it is always a tradeoff between size/weight and speed. The zooms that are about as fast as primes (Optimo 17-80mm T2.2, Cooke 15-40mm T2) are heavier than the lightweight ones (Optimos 15-40mm & 28-76mm, Zeiss 15.5-45mm), which are only T2.6 and as such not meant as a replacement for primes.
  16. Basically you want a filter with the opposite color of skintones, hence why I suggested blue (the opposite of red), but maybe other filters work also?
  17. I'm not sure why they never really caught on, but I suspect it is their weight which makes them not ideal for steadicam and handheld. But optically speaking they deliver the same performance one expects from primes, at essentially the same stop (T2.2). I once compared one to Ultra Prime on a projector and the Vari-Prime was even a tad sharper I recall. They definitely are a good option for a low-budget film, unless you need the T1.3 stop of Master Primes or Super Speeds.
  18. If you leave a film camera in the sun, it will get too hot to touch way before it stops working because of overheating.
  19. 155M is for the whole weekend, including Sunday.
  20. A lost art in Hollywood certainly, but many filmmakers across the globe still work in longer shots with minimized cutting.
  21. This film got some terrible reviews when it opened in Cannes.
  22. The Red lenses are marked yellow as far as I can tell from pictures. The Cooke Red Edition also has yellow focus marks.
  23. Not sure of the specs either, but wasn't the chroma subsampled? The resolution only 1440x1080?
  24. No, of course you select lenses based on whether the rental company makes you use their logo at the end. Please feel free to try to reinvent the wheel, your posts are very entertaining to all of us.
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