Daniel Stepp Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 I'm looking for a list of famous feature films that were shot on 16mm. I've looked everywhere online and I can't seem to find this information. If you guys know of any, please post them here. I'll list some of the ones I know of. El Mariachi Leaving Las Vegas (S16) Japon Midnight Cowboy Clerks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stijnbarbe Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 city of god (cidade de deus) was shot on S16 I believe. with Aaton XTRprdo and A-minima. postprod was via a DI I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted April 22, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 22, 2004 "Midnight Cowboy" was not shot in 16mm... Not all of these are famous: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) Evil Dead (first one) John Water's films of the 1970's (like Pink Flamingos) Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Ruby in Paradise Secaucus Seven Liana Roger and Me Go Fish Monsoon Wedding Party Girl Station Agent Conspiracy Never Die Alone Chasing Amy Magic Flute (Bergman version) Scenes from a Marriage(?) Cold Comfort Farm Enchanted April Truly, Madly, Deeply The Snapper My Beautiful Laundrette many documentaries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Anthony Gonzales Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 You can do a technical search at IMDB for "16 mm" and get a pretty exhaustive list of 16mm productions. http://us.imdb.com/SearchTechnical?for=16+mm John G. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wendell_Greene Posted April 23, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 23, 2004 She's Gotta Have It - DP Ernest Dickerson Raising Victor Vargas - DP Tim Orr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Yaroshevsky Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 Ten of the greatest films ever made: Dekalog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Stepp Posted April 23, 2004 Author Share Posted April 23, 2004 The Dekalog was shot in 16mm? That's cool. I never realized. But it was for TV so it makes sense. Thanks for the responses everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wendell_Greene Posted April 23, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 23, 2004 Ten of the greatest films ever made:Dekalog Absolutely! Slawomir Idziak (an incredibly talented DP) talks about his involvement with "A Short Filming About Killing" and shooting in 16mm in an interview found here. http://moviexpress.tripod.com/id10.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Pytlak RIP Posted April 23, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 23, 2004 Idziak spoke at last year's Camerimage: http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/...merimageP.shtml A range of workshops and seminars was held, including sessions sponsored by ARRI, led by Remi Adefarasin, BSC, and Slawomir Idziak, and another sponsored by Panavision, which was led by Fraker and Laszlo Kovacs, ASC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Salzmann Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 "Gray Gardens" by the Maysles brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Hamrick Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Wasn't Night of the Living Dead shot on 16mm reversal? Marty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnozzle Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Most of John Waters's films through, I think, "Polyester." Although maybe they're more infamous than famous. Also not really famous, but very interesting, are most of Guy Maddin's films, all of which, except for (I think) "Twilight of the Ice Nymphs," were shot on either regular 16 or super 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted April 26, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2004 Hi, I think "Dog Soldiers" probably was. But it looked really soft. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Max Jacoby Posted April 26, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted April 26, 2004 Hi, I think "Dog Soldiers" probably was. But it looked really soft. Phil It was. It was shot in Luxembourg, not that that has anything to do with it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Pacini Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 Tigerland was shot in 16mm. I just saw it last week, for that reason alone (I'm sick of war films, so I thought I wouldn't enjoy it, but it's a really good film). Matt Pacini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 Tigerland was shot in 16mm. Super-16 actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wells Posted May 1, 2004 Share Posted May 1, 2004 Dog Star Man ! (and ~300 other Stan Brakhage films) Scorpio Rising Celine and Julie Go Boating India Song (I thought it was 35 when I saw it, the only time I can think of when a 16 > 35 blowup fooled me) Define "famous" :lol: -Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch Gross Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 "Dog Star" reminded me of another one, John Carpenter's first film "Dark Star." He shot half of it in 16mm as his thesis film at USC and then found financing to finish the project in 35mm. And it costars his buddy Dan O'Bannon. A fun little film and just check both of those two out on IMDB to see where that led! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Michael Nash Posted May 3, 2004 Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2004 And it costars his buddy Dan O'Bannon. A fun little film and just check both of those two out on IMDB to see where that led! There's a really good (and lengthy) segment about that on the new recut "Alien" DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Wells Posted May 7, 2004 Share Posted May 7, 2004 "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", Dir. Guy Richie (married to Madonna) was shot on S16 Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Struthers Posted May 10, 2004 Share Posted May 10, 2004 "Thirteen" was shot on super16mm..and brilliantly, I thought. Michael Struthers www.buzzdigital.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted October 18, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted October 18, 2010 An interesting old thread that probably needs updating by now. We can add the following to the S16 list: Choke Junebug The Hurt Locker The Wrestler Half Nelson The Squid and the Whale Look Both Ways Balibo Vera Drake Irreversible Pi (on a Bolex no less) Hustle and Flow Mean Creek Bad Taste (also a Bolex) Nine Lives And these in which S16mm was used extensively: 28 Weeks Later Babel City of God The Constant Gardener Factory Girl Capturing the Friedmans The Motorcycle Diaries Last King of Scotland I'm Not There Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Hunt Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Super-16 actually. I read that for Tigerland they did some tests with Super 16 but felt it wasn't grainy enough, so they decided to shoot regular 16 and crop a 1.85 frame out of that. Apparently this still wasn't grainy enough for them so they pushed the film 2 stops as well. I think a similar thing may have happened with The Wrestler. Did anyone list that one yet by the way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Borowski Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 What a silly way to waste a bunch of money, a two stop push to add grain? Get some expired '79, maybe underexpose and you could have *plenty* of grain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Hunt Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 What a silly way to waste a bunch of money, a two stop push to add grain? Get some expired '79, maybe underexpose and you could have *plenty* of grain. It might not have been easy to get a large enough quantity of expired stock to shoot a feature. Also, if I remember correctly it was an optical blowup to 35mm not a DI, so the colour-shifts with expired stock might have been problematic. I guess it's something you would have to ask the DOP/director or somebody involved in post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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