Stephen Perera

watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for glorious 35mm with beautiful grain......or watch Black Swan for glorious 16mm grain......for me the look of 16mm is what i prefer

I agree entirely.....it.looks terrible at times.....spot on....looks.....cheap.....totally agree.....no comparison whatsoever.....case in point....compare what Saul Goodman looks like in Better Call Saul and how he looks on film.on Breaking Bad......

Exactly.....it's like the visual difference between Better Call Saul in seasons 1 to 4 and Breaking Bad....No visual congruity.....the former looks terrible in the highlights and thin....they used Reds and Panasonics.....totally uninspiring look to my tastes....no match for the fantastic look of Breaking Bad with their Arricams and Arriflex 35mm using Vision2 stocks......

I agree Phil....the article says Netflix would not let the other directors use 16mm....strange..... Of note is that it the screenplay was by BAFTA winning Jack Thorne who did the fantastic 'This is England'

Perhaps the first two episodes on 16mm are set 'back in time' who knows....interesting to see.....here's the trailer

Yes I know hahaha but the point is the article......read it.....

P.S. I don't mean to open up a discussion on racism, just commenting on the 'characterisation' of cultures, in this case Hispanics.....throughout film/TV history.....I feel the characterisation of 'African-Americans' has evolved fully as opposed to the infancy of hispanic portrayal...as I see it....hey....just an opinion! Another is the characterisation of Italian-Americans......The Godfather, etc made the mafia look...dare I say...elegant..... "During the making of The Godfather, the Italian-American Civil Rights League organized protests, because it felt that the film would only reinforce the 'Italian equals mobster' stereotype.....the Italic Institute of America released a report based on FBI statistics in 2009, stating that only 0.00782 percent of Italian-Americans possessed any criminal associations. And yet, according to a national Zogby poll, 74 percent of the American public believed that Italian-Americans have ties to the mob."

That's a great anecdote Uli.....must have left you open-mouthed!!!!!! ....I remember enjoying a British sitcom called 'Love Thy Neighbour' back in the 70s. I quote Wikipedia: Since 1972, when Love Thy Neighbour was first transmitted, it has been criticised for its politically incorrect handling of issues of racism, it was made in an era when Britain was perceived to be struggling to come to terms with mass immigration which Love Thy Neighbour was said to exemplify.[2] According to Sarita Malik, this meant "comedies about race" were really about "blacks signifying trouble" so that consequentially "if the White characters did display prejudice, this was deemed funny or understandable given the 'difficulty of the situation'."[3] Its writers stated that each episode included both anti-white and anti-black sentiment.[4] In Malik's opinion, in this "mutual racism", racist attitudes were "shown as a reciprocal, inevitable and petty process" rather than being faced with any challenge.[3] As a result, according to Nora Plesske, the premise continued without any change in attitudes or permanent resolution of the conflict.[5] The views of the main white male character (Eddie Booth, played by Jack Smethurst) were presented so as to make him appear ignorant and bigoted and were contrasted with the more tolerant attitude of his wife. "In nearly every show, the white neighbour was shown to be wrong", Rudolph Walker wrote in 2001.[1] A contemporary reviewer in the Daily Mirror, Mary Malone, believed "the only characters who leave the screen with their dignity intact are the blacks. Now that's what I call prejudice."[6] The main male black character (Bill Reynolds, played by Walker) was better educated, although also stubborn and capable of using insulting phrases, such as the terms "Honky", "Snowflake", "Paleface" or "Big White Chief" to describe his white neighbour (often in response to being called "nig-nog" or "Sambo"). The comedy invariably fixated on the "Blackness" of Bill and Barbie or rather, as Malik expressed it, "television's interpretation of Blackness (limbo-dancing, voodoo/Black magic)."[3] Other black stereotypes, such as regular references to cannibalism from the first episode onwards, became a running joke.[7]

As a resident film advocate haha Ive come across the fact THE EDDY is coming to Netflix on May 8th and was also shot on 16mm film. Article on it below: https://nofilmschool.com/damien-chazelle-convince-netflix-16mm

thanks for that Gabriel.....appreciate the reply......the person wrote "art is a lie, but its not ill-intended"...mostly of course but many times used as propaganda....obviously.......e.g.films like 'Top Gun' etc etc - all countries are 'guilty' of these kinds of films....not to mention the most infamous Joseph Goebbel's Nazi films..... anecdote.....when i started to appreciate/understand TV and films etc back in the 70s as an older child etc i thought all Americans lived in massive houses and had loads of money and everyone got on great.......Happy Days e.g.....and more recently 'Father of the bride' and the like.....mostly peddling the 'land of the opportunity' mantra...... until i started to appreciate films like the magnificent 'Midnight Cowboy'.....

.....that's a great comment back Robin thanks......I'm just commenting as to what I see as a European....we have 'una de cal y otra de arena' in the characterisation of hispanics within the same shows/films these days.....

a 'down vote'...whats that even mean?

I'm really enjoying 'Better Call Saul' but its just stuck me how its always the same portrayal of Hispanics in film/tv.... BTW being native bilingual in spanish and english I always enjoy when they break into Spanish so its quite bad how Mark Magolis playing Hector Salamanca is so obviously NOT a native Spanish speaker.....makes me cringe how bad his accent is.......though he looks the part though. The best I have seen is Welshman Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes - spot on Argentinian accent! So back to the observation......it's always the same......Hispanics = Cartel-types, gangsters, tattooed criminals juxtaposed with benign, working class hardworking family members with the ubiquitous 'abuelita' (grandmother) figure.....the characterisation of hispanics is way narrower than what black people are written into scripts as these days......they have any role any white person has now...thankfully......obviously if the film/show is about a Mexican cartel then it makes sense....anyway....just an observation...... This all comes to mind due to what Marlon Brando complained about back in the day with Native American Indians and more recently with the kind of things being said at the Oscars etc etc etc By far the most enjoyable film I have watched recently is 'Dolemite is my name' which highlighted the 'blaxploitation' era...Eddie Murphy is back to his best and I urge everyone to watch it as they show fun filmmaking as well..... So.......are we now in a Hispanixploitation era?

Hey Lee.....greetings from sunnier climes in the Mediterranean......always great to see stuff.....with all due respect we all, esp me....talk too much with nothing to show hahaha

......the only reason I want a video tap hack is cos I want to do some steadicam......I need to see to keep the person, a runner, in frame......otherwise, as a one-man band, I don't use or like monitors.....I like looking through an eyepiece......'false colour' etc wtf?! haha I'd rather a light metre talk to me

Hi John.....thanks for this......I broke the beam splitter screen on the Aaton by blowing on it with a can dent know it would be so fragile......a 'how to' video would be great!!!!! would have to be an eyepiece hack I imagine......my email is ulookretro@gmail.com if you could!!!!!!

there you go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "tungsten stocks tend to be sharper".....I am convinced 500T is sharp as hell and probably the most 'expressive' film Kodak has available.....I love it....Portra 800 is also an INCREDIBLE film...try that one Jarin et al....but of course...didnt want to make any claims as Im in no way experienced enough in motion picture to say these things but yes my perceptions....it seems...are spot on

I agree.....I detest hyper-realism (onslaught when u walk into TV shops) in anything other than sports on TV.....I watch, as a good European...football....(soccer) and that is great in 4K etc etc....but films.....no....I like flavour, texture and depth......give me the original Blade Runner (1982) over the sterile looking Blade Runner 2024 any time....Tarantino says Deakins just doesnt want to light anymore and thats why he uses Arri Alexa's hahaha..... https://www.rogerdeakins.com/film-talk/tarantinos-comments/

hahaha I hope others will enjoy this......

So I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and Im blown away by the man's wit and ability to describe the visual.....how's this for cinematic....describing the early morning light 'creeping' into a room...... “Gradually white fingers creep through the curtains, and they appear to tremble. In black fantastic shapes, dumb shadows crawl into the corners of the room and crouch there. Outside, there is the stirring of birds among the leaves, or the sound of men going forth to their work, or the sigh and sob of the wind coming down from the hills and wandering round the silent house, as though it feared to wake the sleepers and yet must needs call forth sleep from her purple cave. Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.” ....for those that know the book....the story......isn't it all so applicable to today's society, the most narcissistic in human history thanks to social media?

excellent thanks so much for posting!!!

...and there it is on a nutshell.....PERCEPTION....what is lifelike, what looks real, what doesn't, what do we like....t reality = what the human eye can see or our memories tell us have seen - the eyes have the best dynamic range, no blown highlights, detail in shadows cinematic = what we have seen in the big screen in our lifetimes forming our reference for the expression texture = a romantic view of grain in images hyper realism = watching something unfold before you as if you were watching it fro the window of your house

so will they reduce the prices they charge us proportionally then?

so where can we view the final full edit.....the whole piece...... BTW y'all dig my 'Film loader' title on my profile hahaha....could not find appropriate description for myself...cos Im not a cinematographer, DP or anything on the list...as I load film...film loader hahah

thats right yes but at least now I now the culprit.... BTW just seen an Aaton magazine priced at 700 dollars on eBay.....wow....no comment