Stephen Perera

totally fascination poster and post development.....we are ALL suffering in here that's for sure.....creation paints pictures all day every day and we seek to capture and display and to make even the slightest dent into the minds of the others....the people that don't see beyond their ambitions to accumulate money, possessions to show off and other such like soul-less ways of life....our illness is that we see whilst they merely....look

now this is what I call a post!!!!

....now we have smaller cinema of 2 screens, which are fine......fine but doesn't have the majesty of the old one needless to say....

Our local cinema in Gibraltar, called the Queen's Cinema (named after Queen Elizabeth II) had a massive super wide screen. It had 668 seats in the downstairs 'stalls' and 193 seats upstairs in the 'circle' area that was more expensive. Back in the 70s when I started going to the cinema I remember the red curtain opening up or closing in depending on the film format....I remember, vividly, the excitement we felt when the curtains opened wide and words like Cinemascope and VistaVision appeared on the starting edits.....we really enjoyed the wide format films and were somewhat disappointed by narrower formats..... 6 years ago I took a photo of the projectors they had up there....

Saw the film last Friday on my own at the cinema and LOVED IT! fantastic in so many ways for me......had the chaos of Mother! (Darren Aronofsky) the decadence of Wolf of Wall Street and the musical (score etc) presence of La La Land.....am going to go watch it again with 'partner' this week.....I dont give a f@£k about the negativity of any critic or anyone about it.....laugh out loud moments, squirm moments, cinematographic brilliance moments.....a true cinematic experience where you love it at times....hate it at times but remember it day after day thereafter...... The casting superb in my opinion.....the lead Latino actor reminded me of Jimmy Smits from back in the day.....Margot Robbie would get awards for this.....but in this woke era it's never going to happen Chapeau!

its on in local cinemas as from Friday so looking forward to it......I often ponder on why I like films.....and what comes top of the list......the emotional response I get to visuals or the emotional response i get from the acting/storyline.......personally I cant separate the fact I am framing all my waking day.....often a source of amusement for my friends......walking down the street a friend sees tress lining up the pavement but i see the way the sun is painting the trop of the trees with warm glowing light......enough said haha

Here's the trailer:

still to see it and will do so.......

Cool still to start off with: Looking forward to this one.....out in Europe in a couple of weeks.....shot on: Arricam LT, Atlas Orion and Angenieux HR Lenses Arriflex 435 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 50D 5203, Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219, Eastman Double-X 5222) Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383) 70 mm D-Cinema Never heard of the Atlas Orion lenses! Here's the article about it: https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/babylon

really enjoyed this film.....back when it came out

Yes I'm known to bore people philosophising, pondering, questioning......and I do it as a lifelong teetotal to boot....no help of alcohol or substances hahaha just green tea et al.

No info on Tech specs but for my eyes screams FILM - Vision3 500T galore.....HBO seems to support film productions..... anyone care to disagree on the medium shot haha

Well I just shot Double X and never entertained the BW conversions after all........Vision3 to BW gives you the film grain of course and the BW conversion is doable in DaVinci etc and it all costs less.....grade it to BW to your heart's content.......but Double X is a special film......has a special look.....not to untrained eyes of course......I shoot it for its heritage, its history, for the love of BW film..... its not an easy film to shoot.....latitude is narrow, plenty of people like Ed Lachman talk about it, Jarin Blackse etc.....you have to know how to use a light metre...the highlights can blow easily.....in post when you see there's no grain in the highlights you know you're not gonna get anything back hahahah.....beautiful film, long live Eastman Double X!!!! I only know this stock in 16mm format though......

I have not seen the series let alone the episode but have watched the trailer (only So hardly a good way to judge) to it and it screams digital to me.....the tonality is not film......to my eyes...the closest camera to film are the RED cameras to my eyes...

very interesting information Dom and thanks for coming in on the thread...... hope you enjoyed the film as much as I did..... I'm a lifelong Elvis fan...my first LP was Elvis Golden Records Vol II which belonged to my aunt and ended up as my one and only record on my plastic red/cream suitcase record player....so this film was of interest on other levels too

for those that do not know..... Kubrick was a photojournalist before he was a filmmaker. At age 17 started shooting for Look magazine in New York where he shot everyday life and celebrity portraits....he shot with a 'film noir aesthetic" that was new to photojournalism at the time (source: Vanity Fair)

Saw it last night on the big screen.....superb....I predict it will win awards for Editing if nothing else.....the editing was outstanding in my view.....highly recommended (see, I can wax lyrical about a film shot in digital too haha)

A huge hit at the box office.....

.......is there a case for saying the cost of a mayor film shot on digital is escalating at a rate higher than people care to admit given the amount of people and hardware needed to run those big cameras...... interesting that the film v digital debate brushed aside as 'boring' by some of the top dogs is just always always there..... .....perhaps the future of motion picture film is brighter than we dare think...

My simplistic statement once again....we need the big directors and producers to choose film.....for it to trickle down to us at the bottom....I speak for myself.....but hey there's always Ilford atc to keep us photographers shooting

I have and use a tent…..you don’t get the sweats so much with the tent haha…..I mean if you are shooting Aaton and you are taking camera bags and stuff u might as well set up the tent……

Saw it too…..magnificent film…..really enjoyed it….the casting was so good…..albeit could not get beyond Ethan Hawke being Ethan Hawke and not the king he was playing…..I see the dilemma they have with choosing the next James Bond in that you can’t get beyond previous roles with some actors…….didn’t feel that with Nicole Kidman or Defoe……the film was engrossing to watch…..not saying Ethan Hawke didn’t act well mind….. the cinematography was superb…..a key fight scene with the lava etc magnificent to watch…..the dialling back of the colour worked really well too…..the 35mm the perfect choice…. chapeau Jarin…..keep shooting our beloved film my friend so that we the minions can keep putting it in our Hasselblads et al

showing the perfs etc (cant remember what the term is) on the super 8mm is a bit of a YouTuber signalling ''look Im shooting film'' moment but hey, the great unwashed need to be taught about film hahaha so i don''t mind.....the video look is fun.......I''m fully up to the latest episode now and looking forward to episode 10...... The Nike moment we all remember from THAT episode......Michael Jordan signed with NIKE back in 1984 for 250,000 dollars and his own line of shoes....Converse had failed to agree with his demands apparently......his net worth is 2.2 billion dollars v Magic Johnson (he signed with Converse) net worth 600 million dollars hahah "Both companies were trying to sign the league’s hottest rookie. Nike, which was still trying to establish itself, didn’t have the cash Magic was looking for and offered him an option in Nike stock to sign with them. Still young and thinking dollars more than sense, Magic took $100,000 in cash from Converse."

The one stop for every ten years comes from the photography world probably E.g. If your film stock is 500 asa set your light metre for 250 asa and work as normal……can’t think of a simpler explanation that’s this……whether it be ambient light readings or spot metres off a grey card……i shoot expired film all the time in my photography…..have stock from 2012 I use with no issues. Tell the lab to develop normal. No N+1 or anything like that personally I don’t give expired film an extra stop as I found it was giving normal results with my normal film rating….which in the photography world is not normally box speed

Superb comments thanks for coming in……I’m so enjoying this series…..charismatic is the one word I would use to summarise it