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dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.mondayflying.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ht7.jpg

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:24 (fourteen years ago)

lol I was gonna post a WKW screen but feared getting shot down by the anti-lomo crowd

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DHp2Zl7Gfbo/TRAE00afbXI/AAAAAAAAAds/fpvF2j1qjf8/s400/parapluies__1.jpg

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://gestaltmash.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/woo11.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:27 (fourteen years ago)

http://blacklab.visualsociety.com/files/2009/11/2046-005.jpg

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:33 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/J6KQz.jpg

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:33 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/y1fWd.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzl_dczrSAw/SEa4GUUpClI/AAAAAAAAAT4/de-vMzf_ew4/s400/rushmore.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.touchtouchpublishing.com/RATCATCHER.png

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, man. Christopher Doyle, Dante Spinotti, Gordon Willis, Jack Cardiff, all the Steadicam pioneers ... at least, as far as color work goes.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://llywarch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/19_artofthetitle-com_touch_of_evil_contact.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/large_close_encounters_third_kind_blu-ray07.jpeg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

http://cinephiliaque.yolasite.com/resources/pierrot_le_fou.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

http://coosacreek.org/mambo/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/400-blows-title.jpg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

Drives some people batty, but I love the graininess of '70s Altman (Zsigmond, Wexler, can't remember).

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews34/mccabe%20and%20mrs.%20miller/mccabe2.jpg

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

http://aleprod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/le-mepris-1963-5853-366540564.jpeg

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

Hmmmmmn...not so grainy. Will try again later.

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/BEKjS.jpg

dayo, Thursday, 6 January 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://i613.photobucket.com/albums/tt219/Moonlightandlace/Blog%20Gallery%20Images/Icon.jpg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3fFvCY5kDk59-WcvgA5LmbwVFDkL9ymGlyOXVcbzSQvX1nIvG

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

xp - Hoped that might be bigger. Can't find any suitably-sized Stalker images on GIS.

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

Oh wait, maybe this will work:

http://graememitchell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tarkovsky_stalker.jpg

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.cinemademerde.com/Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre-LFdance.gif

nate woolls, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.listal.com/image/1295283/600full-the-holy-mountain-screenshot.jpg

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

texas chainsaw masscr. otm

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/barry.jpg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

The last few seconds of him swinging that chainsaw about is just about my favourite thing in any film ever.

nate woolls, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/LeopoldPhotos/May%202009%20Films/72xj.jpg

you got your TV, you got your dinner, you got your TV dinner (DavidM), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/Vertigo/vertigo21.jpg

you got your TV, you got your dinner, you got your TV dinner (DavidM), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.longpauses.com/blog/02_06_08a.jpg

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://i716.photobucket.com/albums/ww163/LeopoldPhotos/May%202009%20Films/115927406_ed646ac0f2.jpg

you got your TV, you got your dinner, you got your TV dinner (DavidM), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

texas chainsaw masscr. otm

― plax (ico), Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:07 AM Bookmark

The last few seconds of him swinging that chainsaw about is just about my favourite thing in any film ever.

― nate woolls, Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:09 AM Bookmark

Seriously. I wasn't brave enough to go on a GIS here at work, but the daytime shots at the beginning are beautiful.

The scene where the girl runs out of the house is even more heartbreaking because of the vibrant blue sky and puffy clouds.

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.lulzimg.com/i/29bb6ddb.png

i like all the solar flaring also

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:18 (fourteen years ago)

M

schlump, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://leetleech.org/images/73264687270464313436.png

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://thehundredinthehands.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/badlands_pic5.jpg

nate woolls, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/W9hoU.jpg

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:20 (fourteen years ago)

If this doesn't take, I'm giving up (the graininess of Altman's films doesn't translate well to a computer image):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Cvo4jwbe8wE/SgTdnGKrpeI/AAAAAAAACas/WQQa1wQ9hKE/s400/LongGoodbye7.jpg

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

you might wanna rehost the stuff from dvdbeaver.com, it tends to not show up at first

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:24 (fourteen years ago)

There's an overhead shot in Fargo of Jerry walking to his car through an empty snowbound lot which is one of my favourite shots ever, but I can't find a capture of it.

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/kiril_1.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/andrei_comforts_boriska.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:26 (fourteen years ago)

xp thats a shame bc those are amazing, its weird that that movie is some nasty 70s slasher thing bc it is all kinds of awesome btw i kindof hate horror movies bc i dont have a stomach for violence and that movie is brutal

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:27 (fourteen years ago)

There's an overhead shot in Fargo of Jerry walking to his car through an empty snowbound lot which is one of my favourite shots ever, but I can't find a capture of it.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:25 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

This shot?

http://www.moviezeal.com/wp-content/uploads/fargo2-300x169.jpg

nate woolls, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/two-laneblacktop.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

That's the one, cheers Nate.

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

Princess Tam Tam, what is that b/w image from? The deep focus is amazing. I bought a copy of The Man Who Wasn't There not so much because the movie is particularly great, but it LOOKS beautiful.

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/ManWhoWasntThere06.jpg

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:30 (fourteen years ago)

its from How Green Was My Valley

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.jasoncollin.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07-JUL/insomnia-2002-screenshot.png

the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Fig-3.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:34 (fourteen years ago)

Kinda chastening how few of these I recognise.

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

Do those Texas Chainsaw grabs come from the blu-ray? If so, I may need to replace my DVD. Those look amazing.

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.thehydramag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Colossal-Youth.jpg

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

im just assuming anything i dont recognise sucks

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://static.expcinema.com/content/stories/events/Hutton_river.jpg

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2371618824_ba24ce9f7e.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_38ckCITQX7g/S3pgDfJFvpI/AAAAAAAAA38/qqIBq3Pmixg/s400/3544011273_ec92659952.jpg

struggling to find images that encompass the whole of a short film about killing or M in one go, here. maybe more gifs.

schlump, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3001/2317652598_8c0687bd3b.jpg

schlump, Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

yah those seem to be from the blu ray

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

For a low budget film, I think there is some beautiful cinematography in parts of Down By Law.

http://www.indie.student.virginia.edu/img/stills/s04/dbl.jpg

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

And Eraserhead.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7kgl4AycARw/TNGuCB0StfI/AAAAAAAAAP8/Ucz4YHJa8eE/s640/eraserhead-1-715976.jpg

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:42 (fourteen years ago)

Some of Allen Daviau's work at the beginning of E.T., and the stuff on the interiors, is terrific, but I can't find any good pics through GIS.

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://myqueue.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/black_narcissus_-_sister_ruth_rings_bell.jpg

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

Aw, Down By Law. How did I almost forget Mystery Train?

http://www.dvdverdict.com/images/reviewpics/mysterytrain1.jpg
http://www.qubmovies.com/images/cache/screen_image_324202.jpg
http://www.qubmovies.com/images/cache/screen_image_324206.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:55 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/59/59_images/59mysterybrokencity.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 16:57 (fourteen years ago)

there have been a couple of DVD releases of texas chainsaw massacre, the wrong master was used on the inital transfer which made it look soft as hell, the last one finally got it right

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/Picture11-4.png

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album6/robinsoninspace1997bmp.jpg

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:09 (fourteen years ago)

playtime otm

beehive too

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-OSBOKoY1kQ/TPVWjH_IrsI/AAAAAAAAECw/7uBYMd4PoAs/s1600/dr-zhivago-dacha-in-winter.jpg

http://yayayanonono.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/dr-zhivago-datcha-600.jpg

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)

oh and
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2900000/War-of-the-Worlds-2005-dakota-fanning-2983320-720-480.jpg
love the blown out highlights and contrast, shame about the film though.

not_goodwin, Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:24 (fourteen years ago)

beehive too

beehive three

Blecchula Ye-Ye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://browningmgs.com/Maxim/photos/DrZhivago_T.jpg

I mean pretty much anything from Zhivago or any other D Lean film.

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

better:

http://browningmgs.com/Maxim/photos/DrZhivago.jpg

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2436/3980494911_34c0270425.jpg

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

i mean
http://images.blu-ray.com/reviews/2756_2.jpg

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

You film snobs and your uncaptioned images are driving me crazy.

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

Stop shining that flashlight in my eyes!

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

More david lean:

http://www.mapability.com/travel/p2i/stills/69397.jpg

I'm such a sucker for small figures in big dramatic landscapes. See also The Searchers

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I saw Lawrence of Arabia (for the first time ever) on a theater screen recently, and some of those longshots are jawdropping -- and would likely be done with CGI vs. real caravans of camels these days!

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

i just hate david lean

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)

love the blown out highlights and contrast, shame about the film though.

Yeah, whether you like or dislike a particular Spielberg movie, they're never ugly. With the possible exception of The Lost World.

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)

was totally shocked that i liked brief encounter

plax (ico), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

why?

thomas l. sassy (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

hah, n/m, just saw the prev post

thomas l. sassy (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

i just hate david lean

― plax (ico), Thursday, January 6, 2011 12:38 PM Bookmark

i don't understand

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

I wonder if some of this stuff is done in order to get away with small errors in color timing. Like, as long as you're going to feed everything into a computer, then it doesn't really need to be perfect the first time around?

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/phase_iv20283129.jpg

Є|Э (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:41 (fourteen years ago)

Side/Walk/Shuttle:
http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/105/w500h420/CRI_113105.jpg
http://www.fredcamper.com/PF/GehrSWSmb.jpg

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:42 (fourteen years ago)

sorry, wrong thread

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.konradprojects.net/blog/uploaded_images/fitzcarraldo-793283.jpg

There are some awesome Amazon shots in Aguirre too but I can't find one to post.

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

Donna, is your display name a Thomas Elsaesser joke??

C0L1N B..., Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

Oh yeah!

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

The opening sequence of Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever.

Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Thursday, 6 January 2011 17:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/lady-vengeance-2005-02-g.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:22 (fourteen years ago)

^ Needs more teal.

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

WHERE IS THE GODDAMN TEAL??

progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:24 (fourteen years ago)

culd u guys puhllllllleeeeeeeeze note the movie of the screencap ur posting??

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:43 (fourteen years ago)

I don't see any YouTube clips--is that not a good idea because of loading time? There's an old Canadian movie where I'd like to post a clip.

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

utubber clips have never lagged me down, but then again i have broadband

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

I'll post one then; if it becomes a problem, pretend I didn't. The movie's from 1970 (it begins with credits).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDQ10u42G2M&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BeN6IOY_I

the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

culd u guys puhllllllleeeeeeeeze note the movie of the screencap ur posting??

Enjoy them on their own terms, instead of already knowing that the lusty heaving shot of the Chicago skyline came from The Fugitive

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

the fugitive rules man

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 18:58 (fourteen years ago)

"I don't care!"

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

lolll

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5164/5308646545_af1de10d2b_o.png

omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldsmg7K3q61qa58bio1_500.gif

omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

can't we believe we got this far w/o that one

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

what is that, mr. no-labels

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:15 (fourteen years ago)

night of the hunter

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:17 (fourteen years ago)

spirit of the beehive caps fill me w/ f'kn ineffable longing

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

whiney's finest work imo

buzza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

oh duh - thanks ed

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

more sotb

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/76220spirit20of20the20beehive20erice20SPIRIT_OF_THE_BEEHIVE_DISC1-6.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

spirit of the butthive

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

whiney's finest work imo

― buzza, Thursday, January 6, 2011 2:18 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol i just got this

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

well you are the porn connoisseur

xp

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/4789216515_72b49a536e_o.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

what's that

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

Carnival of Souls! Yes!

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:30 (fourteen years ago)

you may remember it as carnival of holes tho

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:30 (fourteen years ago)

Here's a shitty movie with some cool scenes.

It's a trick, but I like this static shot from Dead Poets Society. Seeing it on a theater screen, watching the characters travel in real time from one corner to the other, is something I liked the look of.

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/5368/screenshot20110106at132.png

The camera doesn't pan or dolly or zoom. It stays frozen as we see them go up the stairs.

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5368/screenshot20110106at132.png

You could use it in some sort of projection/live theater, like at Disneyworld.

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

For me, the most beautiful cinematography ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iYxrsd59-E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:43 (fourteen years ago)

From IMDB:

• At the beginning of the film, there is a shot of McCabe lighting a cigarette before crossing the bridge. According to Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick loved that shot and called him up asking him: "How did you know you had it?"

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:46 (fourteen years ago)

is rapid cutting part of cinematography or editing?

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

editing imo

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

Donna, is your display name a Thomas Elsaesser joke??

― C0L1N B..., Thursday, January 6, 2011 9:44 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

haha yeah

thomas l. sassy (donna rouge), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:51 (fourteen years ago)

but choosing not to rapidly cut, that's cinematography?

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

im a complete film n00b but this one really made my jaw drop:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion_images/current/current_496_032.png

minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:53 (fourteen years ago)

neither, DP has no control over how the film is cut

xp

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:54 (fourteen years ago)

I dunno, I tend to think of cinematography primarily in terms of framing, exposure, focus, etc.

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

YES! the moon in sunrise!!

minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:57 (fourteen years ago)

what's that, diamonddave85?

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

Vampyr is gorgeous too

http://www.theartwolf.com/exhibitions/images/dreyer_vampyr.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

what's that, diamonddave85?

― Princess TamTam, Thursday, January 6, 2011 1:59 PM Bookmark

Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:02 (fourteen years ago)

cheating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FJyJjH6IE

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

Murnau rules in general tbh

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.mardecortesbaja.com/LastManRestroomBaja.JPG

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

Casual perusal of this thread reveals that tall grass is the cinematographer's best friend.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah he was amazing, his visuals, no matter how arresting, never overpowered the stories. The guy was a master.

Pashmina, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f375/tarea83/ugetsu-07.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:09 (fourteen years ago)

oops

http://i51.tinypic.com/11ta04g.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

Pabst's movies are mostly workmanlike but they always look amazing

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

That one's fantastic, Josh in Chicago.

Pashmina, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

Are those from Pandora's Box? xp to Pash

earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

Secrets of a Soul

http://www.siffblog.com/Souls-thumb.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

Kind of agree w/r/t "workmanlike", although it seems more to me like he could be totally great but is always scuppered by this dislikeable misanthropy that seems to run through his films. His visuals are unbeatable though, you could click the screengrab button rendonmly at any point in "Pandora's Box" and 99% of the time you'd get a beautifully-composed image.

xp, yeah that's pandora's box.

Pashmina, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

Cinematography to me is texture, which I guess is determined by exposure and focus.

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

sometimes i think composition was stronger in the B&W era cuz they couldnt really use color to draw your focus to things

Princess TamTam, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

Le Samouraï

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2504/4135265637_5bc14a82d0.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

(xpost) Could be, yeah. the outstanding talent that some of the best directors/cameramen had might skew things a bit though (eg Lang, Murnau, Berkeley, pabst, Griffith/Bitzer, Sjostrom, Borzage, blablabla) I have a bunch of silent/precode films on DVD that are nothing special as far as composition/cinematography goes, but are still v enjoyable for all that.

Pashmina, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/930_suspira_blu-ray4.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/suspiria_ab06.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

Epstein's Coeur Fidèle

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4135290345_83582d992c.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_60-dfYCcUIw/TRSbGa5Y04I/AAAAAAAAAmA/atlIN3RhAJU/s400/cat28_thumb.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-uCndT_mn6s/TN4YidiZVQI/AAAAAAAAAog/JkFioZj43LM/s400/Picture%2B36.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

Siodmak's The Killers has great photography

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fsrYPG3SaVY/S6Tgmu5QijI/AAAAAAAAADw/shWNLa9nfXw/s400/killers.png

also Anthony Man's T-Men

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/TMen-400.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

what are those, JiC?

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-uCndT_mn6s/TKDyadTVRtI/AAAAAAAAAnA/zC_xVF6Q6JE/s400/Picture+51.png

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:49 (fourteen years ago)

Ugetsu, Cat People, The Conformist (I think - Storato, regardless), In Cold Blood

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVhIjPSX47I

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

Speak of the devil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eOCajj3fY4&feature=related

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

(Dunno what's up with that lame music, sorry)

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

Is that from Soy Cuba? Still need to see that. Amazing shot indeed.

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

and yeah I muted the sound after 10 seconds :D

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

That whole movie (Soy Cuba) is amazing. There's an equally astonishing crane shot in a sugar cane field that's just o_O

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

Siodmak's The Killers has great photography

Love that one; remember the cinematography much more than the plot.

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

can CG movies qualify? CG doesn't seem like photography but seems closer to it than painting...

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

xp Spiral Staircase is beautiful too. After watching that and The Killers I had this idea that Siodmak was a forgotten auteur, but I don't think that's true.

http://classic-horror.com/files/images/staircases-spiralstaircase.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

Oh hell no, Siodmak's pretty well known.

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

Took me a sec to find it. I just read this not long ago:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/siodmak/

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnagm5T5xyc

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://chud.com/articles/content_images/53/reviews/dirty_harry/dirtyharryrev01.JPG

http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/DirtyHarry/dh27.jpg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:07 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks for that DP (haha, get it?) — looks like a good read.

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

ha, I almost posted that soy cuba tracking shot

here's a clip w/ original sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFXv6bDIY8

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:11 (fourteen years ago)

conformist is on the all-time greats

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/tumblr_l0qpqf8IYx1qzdvhio1_r2_500.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/PDVD_008.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.leninimports.com/a_canterbury_tale_gallery_1.jpg

clotpoll, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:25 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8XEQXH9ciM

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:29 (fourteen years ago)

^ clip needed to fully appreciate

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

That soy cuba clip just destroyed my mind.

earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjyqXSSaOt4

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

I thought the film was completely nuts, but Godard's Made in U.S.A. has some of the most beautiful colour cinematography I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXD8l8JFk6E&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

clemenza, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

Gratuitous tracking shot alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDtzdKktTw

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

Wau! Okay, that Vij clip deserves this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPF-sfNvOo

Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/800inauguration1.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/eauxcopy800.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

what's with the weird camera tricks in three o'clock high? it seems really ambitious for a bully movie.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_GagmpfvU

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

All That Heaven Allows

http://andrewsidea.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/allthatheavenallows1.png

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnIB4M6w1dE

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrzuVbIymI

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)

cadaveri eccellenti

, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/gun_crazy.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

ok I promise I'll stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOHKKJxrgA

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)

what's with the weird camera tricks in three o'clock high? it seems really ambitious for a bully movie.

Barry Sonnenfeld's first film as director after doing cinematography for Raising Arizona and Blood Simple.

the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

Those movies seem kind of restrained compared to three o'clock high. what's that trick where you zoom in at the same time you move the camera backwards, so the dude in focus stays the same size, but the background does this weird parallax receding effect? i've never seen one as extreme as in that movie.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:35 (fourteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom

http://tinyurl.com/MO-02011 (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:42 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.linternaute.com/cinema/film/dossier/les-100-films-a-avoir-vus-dans-sa-vie/images/lost-in-translation.jpg

Whomever did camera-work for Coppola absolutely fucking aced it in this movie. I've never felt so much in the city as I had with this film, and I think half of it is owed (aside from constant setting & obvious plot) to it's constantly observational shooting technique. Less people-faces-people-faces and more wandering eyes.

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:48 (fourteen years ago)

like i really dig this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsj9sMDgh-A

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:49 (fourteen years ago)

what are those, pisces?

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:55 (fourteen years ago)

Whatever else you want to say about Sofia Coppola films, they generally look really good.

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:57 (fourteen years ago)

xp Distant Voices, Still Lives / Terence Davies (1988)

piscesx, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

Out Of Sight; this bit, but where the snow is falling outside:
http://file027b.bebo.com/9/large/2007/03/15/21/1180510386a3852966254b818065499l.jpg

piscesx, Thursday, 6 January 2011 22:58 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBBR8Pn7eUQ

IDK if anyone posted anything from this. So many weird & beautiful images in this film, it's one of my favourites.

Pashmina, Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

The Apple (1980)

http://www.genjipress.com/img/dvd/2004/B00026L7P4-010.jpg

http://www.genjipress.com/img/dvd/2004/B00026L7P4-065.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

On the Silver Globe

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3439849682_06ff3cefd9.jpg

http://dcairns.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/vlcsnap-710136.png?w=450&h=337

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

IDK if anyone posted anything from this. So many weird & beautiful images in this film, it's one of my favourites.

― Pashmina, Thursday, January 6, 2011 4:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oo ooo ooo. Tarkovsky films burn images of themselves in your brain. It's seriously hard to forgot individual scenes (laughably, because so many scenes feature the same background for 10-20minutes at a tie). But I prefer Solyaris immensely.

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

Wanted to post something from Solaris

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6167/vlcsnap2011010614h20m27.png
the disturbingly framed blob in the tall grass is william shatner!

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

xpost

hope we're talking about the tarkovsky version tho, not the "here, let me show you george clooney's naked butt" adaptation

heh (kelpolaris), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://shitbusters.vaevictis.nl/screens/ricky/09.png

omar little, Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

i don't like seeing story of ricky reduced to stills. it's like eating a sandwich each ingredient separately.
is there a different word for motion-aspect of cinematography? like kinesthology or something?

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:34 (fourteen years ago)

Wow, piscesx, was that a still from Manhunter up there? William Petersen and Dennis Farina on the beach? Nice one!

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 January 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, bloody brilliant innit.

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 00:09 (fourteen years ago)

I only saw it once, the year it came out, but I thought The Piano had a great look:

http://deeperintomovies.net/journal/image09/piano2.jpg

clemenza, Friday, 7 January 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)

The Pajama Game

http://artforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id26749/article00.jpg

Godard was a fan, apparently.

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:33 (fourteen years ago)

x-post Michael Mann was on a real winning streak with Dante Spinotti (whom I referenced above). "Manhunter," "Last of the Mohicans," "Heat," 'Insider." He did "Wonder Boys," too, which is gorgeous, and "LA Confidential."

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 00:35 (fourteen years ago)

Lola Montes

http://www.cinemaisdope.com/news/films/lolamontes/lola_montes_1.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:37 (fourteen years ago)

Un Flic

http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/flic01.JPG

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/177/1216591410_4.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

Lola (Fassbinder)

http://vonsamuel.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/lola-1.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

Closely-Watched Trains

http://www.oeff.jp/Documents/jpg/Ostre_sledovane_vlaky_4_.jpg

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 00:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.bateszi.me/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/vlcsnap-1761748.jpg
all about lily chou-chou

ogmor, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:01 (fourteen years ago)

Lots of problems with The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, but they're both filled with memorable images:

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/1/15/Walken%27s_Rifle_3.JPG/600px-Walken%27s_Rifle_3.JPG

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NPCD2dRFtMc/SLid66Czd6I/AAAAAAAACXo/HBYb8qpAusg/s400/gate_cimino3.jpg

clemenza, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.kickthemachine.com/works/images/tropical_malady/large/Into-Cave.jpg

ogmor, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:05 (fourteen years ago)

oh wait, I see beehive has been done upthread. never get enough tho imo

dayo, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)

how did u like 'red desert' (apart from the awes photography)

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't like its treatment of gender roles but wikipedia says I may have misread it

dayo, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/dWnGx.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:19 (fourteen years ago)

Ohh, that looks like a Wynn Bullock print.

http://zdravstvuite.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/the-fall-by-tarsem1.jpg

Tarsem Singh's The Fall

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:22 (fourteen years ago)

That looks crazy! When we got the DVD of that in at Blockbuster the case made it look like Pan's Labyrinth, so I skipped it. Is it any good?

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:26 (fourteen years ago)

what's that little red dude hanging out at the bottom

dayo, Friday, 7 January 2011 01:27 (fourteen years ago)

The Fall, its a visual feast, one for Blu-ray. It's a bit more like Adventures of Baron Munchausen in plot and tone.

Another fave:

http://nerdvampire.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/ctwl14.jpg

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:29 (fourteen years ago)

xp: The red dude hanging out at the bottom is Darwin. And his monkey.

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:31 (fourteen years ago)

tbrr need original aspect ratio itt

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.londonlee.com/chipshop/chippics/abc3.jpg

I think the record store tracking shot in A Clockwork Orange may be my favorite shot of all time.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/bRprU.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Hh4lj.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/4sZnU.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://bloguionistas.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/the-ghost-writer-31.jpg

l o v e d t h i s

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:29 (fourteen years ago)

http://catenzaro.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/2009_antichrist_002.jpg

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/slice_scott_pilgrim_vs_the_world_flaming_katana_re-centered.jpg

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/lg5Fa.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:32 (fourteen years ago)

http://imagenes.sensacine.com/r_760_x/medias/nmedia/18/35/13/47/18363425.jpg

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:43 (fourteen years ago)

http://hwcdn.themoviedb.org/backdrops/374/4bc906e5017a3c57fe002374/eyes-wide-shut-original.jpg

Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:47 (fourteen years ago)

the poor fellow will be turning in his grave (he used to go to cinemas to test his films were being projected correctly) but kubrick's later film's actually look alright cropped to 16:9 imo

maybe i'm just saying cuz i want to watch the blurays on a hd tv but it sort of works a lot of the time (less so when ppls' heads are partially cropped tho)

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)

Partie de Campagne otm

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 02:54 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxgY7792XM

zvookster, Friday, 7 January 2011 02:59 (fourteen years ago)

the poor fellow will be turning in his grave (he used to go to cinemas to test his films were being projected correctly) but kubrick's later film's actually look alright cropped to 16:9 imo

maybe i'm just saying cuz i want to watch the blurays on a hd tv but it sort of works a lot of the time (less so when ppls' heads are partially cropped tho)

― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Thursday, January 6, 2011 9:51 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

kubrick's films were projected in theaters at aspect ratios other than 1.37 so I think he will be alright

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:13 (fourteen years ago)

that's true! largely because it was unavoidable for large commerical releases, tho you imagine he'd rather they were in his preferred form for bluray release

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/jLifl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HAH7u.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/O4OqQ.jpg

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 03:38 (fourteen years ago)

http://myqueue.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/black_narcissus_-_sister_ruth_rings_bell.jpg?w=460&h=310

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 03:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://buzzdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Black-Narcissus-3-300x199.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 03:45 (fourteen years ago)

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9kcurW6331qdwgfko1_500.jpg

circa1916, Friday, 7 January 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

awes

max bro'd (nakhchivan), Friday, 7 January 2011 04:08 (fourteen years ago)

I like this one from Peter Gidal's Clouds:

http://shop.lux.org.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/G/i/Gidal-clouds02.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 7 January 2011 06:28 (fourteen years ago)

I like that!

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:34 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/aguirre2.jpg

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v27hJrrgr_A/RnqQe_qO07I/AAAAAAAAHOQ/Y2SwgOpbpwY/s1600/PDVD_023.JPG

La fille sur le pont

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 06:58 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v27hJrrgr_A/Rp6WUXnCQNI/AAAAAAAAOs8/YCwtDtPwudk/s1600/PDVD_031.JPG

The Trial

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 07:03 (fourteen years ago)

yes

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Friday, 7 January 2011 07:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.grouchoreviews.com/content/films/2452/1.jpg

The Bad Sleep Well

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 January 2011 08:08 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.eiga.dk/billeder/0688.jpg

''

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 January 2011 08:11 (fourteen years ago)

oh word re: i don't want to sleep alone. the sections in the attic apartment are beautiful.

schlump, Friday, 7 January 2011 09:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://reeldebate.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/there-will-be-blood.jpg

A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://cdn5.movieclips.com/universal/f/far-from-heaven-2002/0169803_20598_MC_Tx360.jpg

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

Does TV count? If so, I would like to submit Mad Men.

A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://i43.tinypic.com/29ojyhd.png

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/cabaret2.jpg

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:23 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.reverseshot.com/files/images/pre-issue22/ferris2.preview.jpg

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:27 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5222473302_a8d6820879.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

http://clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/4056_D026_048101.jpg

you got your TV, you got your dinner, you got your TV dinner (DavidM), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.screentrek.com/images/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west1.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3791112481_4ea04aba0c.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_140578_117486_kenneth-anger.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

Contenderizer what are all these

Princess TamTam, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://bavatuesdays.com/files/2007/01/walkabout.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

contenderizer's last one is inauguration of the pleasure dome. one before is from don't look now I think? then once upon a time in the west, singapore sling, from beyond, and two from argento's inferno

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.dvdverdict.com/images/reviewpics/blackstallion1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

Crap.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GLW4GnC_dzY/Sn8dST8P67I/AAAAAAAADOE/CVL98lq-_yA/s400/black-stallion-6-1.png

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

Huh, it posted after all.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)

contenderizer's first big post has eraserhead, the red shoes, ok you stumped me on this one, the care bears movie, night of the hunter, la dolce vita, playtime, branded to kill, valerie and her week of wonders

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://followmyfilm.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/follow-my-film-the-script-lawrence_web.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chinatown_Jack-Nicholson_nose-plaster.bmp.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

http://calitreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/repulsion1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LLTU6aJUWps/SZwEF442KeI/AAAAAAAABWY/GQeI197qsCM/s400/wonderboys2.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/ND2.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

more conformist because why not

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/vlcsnap4131512lk0.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/PDVD_055.jpg

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

also <3 near dark

xp

i would just like to point out that i have been orange & teal itt (Edward III), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:18 (fourteen years ago)

i must see Wonder Boys again.

piscesx, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

I can't find any good pics from John Carpenter's The Thing, but Dean Cundey really brings it there IMO. The contrast between those outdoor location shots on a glacier in Canada, and the claustrophobic interiors, simply makes the movie.

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:25 (fourteen years ago)

OK, sorry this is so huge:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GY-vHrWkMMg/TRpLrNvonOI/AAAAAAAACE0/sA4G3Gm6tuM/s1600/THE+THING.jpg

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:26 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v27hJrrgr_A/Roliohn8XtI/AAAAAAAAKh4/983ztDFoLTE/s1600/PDVD_006.JPG

Malèna (2000)

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v27hJrrgr_A/Roliohn8XvI/AAAAAAAAKiI/PFCgBOk19gI/s1600/PDVD_008.JPG

also Malèna (2000)

Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMH_iovHsdg7hgM7PDiJpqLtCN-VrYzokBl09ejh4i3qbz74GZ

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQi23q8ozBxaK53eykGqy0yqhS70x13AzGOk9GODi1y81xORnHp4g

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.kk.org/truefilms/archives/Wings1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5905/6333localhero2.jpg

i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/1912/chambreverte197807g.jpg

i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

oooh, The Green Room Almendros + Truffaut= Gold

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

reminds me that I really liked the look of the sequence where the pods first appear in Spielberg's WOTW
http://bowjamesbow.ca/images/warofthewolds.jpg

hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ Why Lucas could have learned from Spielberg that it's not worth it to sacrifice location shooting for greenscreen, even when complicated effects are involved.

children with wasting diseases (Phil D.), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://readingeagle.com/BlogUploads/68/curse.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 23:33 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J--TDEHizVA

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/songs-from-the-second-floor-1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 January 2011 23:38 (fourteen years ago)

lol, sorry for not posting attributions. edward III otm, except that it's the care bears sequel. and min-liang tsai's i don't want to sleep alone.

screen caps of a good lawyer's wife and malena are stunning

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

color of pomegranates, too. always meant to watch that. even checked it out once, but the nerve failed me...

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

dont look now otm

plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:40 (fourteen years ago)

re unregistered: dunno if it's due to the look, but man, i loved local hero so much as a kid. must have watched that like 10 times one summer. comfort and joy's good too.

carles marx (contenderizer), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:46 (fourteen years ago)

(teal and orange btw)

circa1916, Friday, 7 January 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

thats not teal

/elmo

plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:51 (fourteen years ago)

realize this, joeks.

circa1916, Friday, 7 January 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

Shit, Chrome really makes it difficult trying to find the html source of half these images so I know what movies to reserve next from the biblioteca.

heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 7 January 2011 23:58 (fourteen years ago)

nobody knows

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ym12Kf2Vj5Y/S8HX_Q7GN2I/AAAAAAAAAjQ/K99lROhILSU/s1600/title.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

dangit, wrong pic. not bad, but not great. self: remember to check

carles marx (contenderizer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

what i wanted:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ym12Kf2Vj5Y/S8HYvnYWu6I/AAAAAAAAAkA/ee7b4LJtSOA/s1600/shot1.jpg

carles marx (contenderizer), Saturday, 8 January 2011 00:02 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.rouge.com.au/images/5/martinez2.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2011 06:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/In-the-Mood-for-Love.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2011 06:24 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.haro-online.com/stuff/rabbitp1.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2011 06:26 (fourteen years ago)

Just saw Tiny Furniture and liked the look very much.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m131/dotsetloops/filmpanelnotetaker/tinyfurniture-2.jpg

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 January 2011 06:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://cinemopolis.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/proposition.jpg?w=300&h=192

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 January 2011 06:29 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

^ the proposition otm

it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

started watching the wind journeys last night, palette is jaw-dropping

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Losviajesdelviento-1.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Losviajesdelviento2.png
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Losviajesdelviento5.png

it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxNTg1MzMzOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMjAzOTc2._V1._SX475_SY305_.jpg

frankly, mr. cankly (Pillbox), Thursday, 10 February 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

the middle one of those three looks fantastic. (xpost)

Pashmina, Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:03 (fourteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://media.monstersandcritics.com/articles/1134866/article_images/deepthroat.jpg

piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

It's interesting how many of these are actually "production design you like the look of".

unmetalled world (wk), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

mm there's that i guess.

piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:07 (fourteen years ago)

wasn't referring to yours btw, just browsing through the thread in general.

unmetalled world (wk), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

I mentioned Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy on the Meek's Cutoff thread--many beautiful sequences. (And Yo La Tengo!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1X_7jIcIM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

clemenza, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/lastexittobrooklyn.jpg

The hoppiest hop hopper now with xtra hops (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

Not one mention of koyaanisqatsi, is that because it's not cool on ilx or because nobody likes it?

not_goodwin, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:25 (fourteen years ago)

xp no but i know what you mean aye.

piscesx, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 22:33 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Didn't know this existed till I stumbled over it in a video store today:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/No_Subtitles_Necessary_Poster.jpg

clemenza, Monday, 11 June 2012 04:06 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://ritter19646.c4.cmdwebsites.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/pres91.jpg

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-gordon-willis-1931-2014

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 May 2014 18:32 (eleven years ago)

NYT obit:

"Mr. Willis, a native New Yorker who chose to live on the East Coast, harbored an antipathy toward Hollywood that may have been mutual. From 1971 to 1977, seven films he photographed earned a total of 39 Oscar nominations, 19 of which won the award. He received not one of those nominations, to the astonishment of many of the peers he influenced."

images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 11:08 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

pretty techy interview of G Willis by Soderbergh

http://extension765.com/sdr/17-gordon-willis?lowry777

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 June 2014 20:58 (eleven years ago)

A: Right. Yeah, right. I know. I give Redford a lot of credit for pushing that through. He was very funny, actually. [laugh] Bob and Dustin. I'll tell you, you have time for a funny story about those two?

Q: Uh, yeah.

A: I was going home one night and I was going by the office and Bob was getting ready to go home and he said, how's it going? I said, oh great, how about you? And he said, I don't know, he says, Dustin has all the good lines. And then I'm talking to Dustin on the set: “Bob is better looking than I am.” I said, really? [laugh] I said, now what? So about a week later, we're ready to shoot and we blocked and the actors went away and then, OK, let's go. And I came back again and Dustin's the last one to step in. He comes in and he looks like Geronimo. He's got makeup on which is like five shades darker than anyone standing there. It's red, brown--so I said, hey, hang on a second, what are you doing? He said, what do you mean? I said, we can't shoot you, you look very, very dark, you'll have to take that off. So he goes back. Comes back with a normal makeup on. OK. Week goes by, same action--I'm ready to go, everybody steps in. He steps back in and, again, he looks like Geronimo. I said, what the hell's going on here? I was a little too loud. I said, we can't shoot this way. I call the makeup girl at night--that night--I said, what the hell are you doing? And then I realized, and I said, oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be yelling. She said, he wants this makeup, and I said, OK, all right, I understand now. So he was so paranoid about not looking handsome, as good as Bob looked, that he was putting all this makeup on. I said to him, you look great. You look like Dustin. You look terrific. You can't put this all over your face. It was so funny in retrospect, now. It was very irritating at the time.

Amazing

, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:27 (eleven years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6DSDtNT4Upk/UidMWpsdGPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/2K9hXdEjf6w/s640/SB17.png

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:31 (eleven years ago)

As part of the Altman series here this summer, Vilmos Zsigmond will be introducing McCabe & Mrs. Miller.

clemenza, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 02:49 (eleven years ago)

http://media.theiapolis.com/b000000/d4/hEL/i1XM4/t3/wJG/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:00 (eleven years ago)

er
http://media.theiapolis.com/b000000/d4/hLC/i1XM4/k2/l1P5/s6/t3/wSG/y04/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg?cdn=1403578807

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:00 (eleven years ago)

durr

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:00 (eleven years ago)

one more try
http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hEW/i1XM4/k4/l1Y7F/wZJ/chuck-norris-as-colt-in-the-way-of-the-dragon.jpg

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:01 (eleven years ago)

lol

diamonddave85‌ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:36 (eleven years ago)

that's such a great shot...

Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:38 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Matt Z Seitz remembrance/interview with Haskell Wexler (i watched one of his first significant credits, The Savage Eye, on Saturday night):

http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/MZS-QA-with-Haskell-Wexler

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2015 17:29 (nine years ago)

Glenn Kenny on auteurism and Vilmos Zsigmond

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2016/01/vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2016.html

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 January 2016 17:24 (nine years ago)

“On Close Encounters, we started with the concept that the whole movie should look like a documentary,” Zsigmond told Jon Silberg in a 2004 interview for American Cinematographer. When he arrived at the set for the big mothership arrival sequence, “I asked Steven, ‘When are we going to get the lights?’ and he said, ‘It’s lit.’ He wanted the scene to be lit up by those stadium lights…. I said I thought we needed a lot more lights for the spaceships… [W]e should create something almost like a light show. Well, Steven realized this could be much more effective than his original concept—he’s no dummy, you know!—and he asked me, ‘What do you need in order to do that?’ And I said, ‘I need a lot of light, 10Ks, HMIs, all kinds of big lights.’ So Steven said, ‘Vilmos needs lights!’ And then many, many lights started to arrive, along with more and more generators to power them. That beautiful 30-minute segment of the movie eventually got me an Academy Award!”

https://www.theasc.com/magazine/oct04/vilmos/page1.html

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2015

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:15 (nine years ago)

... of why he prefers film over video, he said, "Too sharp, too much detail in the faces and all that. The faces sometimes look terrible. We need to diffuse them. I always get the best cameras and make it with bad lenses.”

http://filmmakermagazine.com/87150-old-faded-pictures-vilmos-zsigmond-on-mccabe-mrs-miller/

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)

Rest in peace, Vilmos Szigmond.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:45 (nine years ago)

hard to zspell

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 18:56 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

a poll/listicle by Keyframe of the greatest cinematography ever... Good comments throughout.

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/video-the-best-cinematography-of-all-time

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:38 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

James Wong Howe is the Google doodle today.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-67urbxG3G4w/VKfrVhE8XzI/AAAAAAAAQoA/7PEMaCIQiz4/s1600/Sweet%2BSmell%2Bof%2BSuccess%2B(8).png

clemenza, Monday, 28 August 2017 04:51 (eight years ago)

loved this bad guy's lair from Marathon Man

http://imgur.com/rTL9TIk

http://imgur.com/ZsbV1kL

flopson, Monday, 28 August 2017 07:02 (eight years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/rTL9TIk.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZsbV1kL.png

flopson, Monday, 28 August 2017 07:03 (eight years ago)

Conrad Hall--I thought he was the last AA winner for B&W cinematography when they still gave out a separate award, but I checked, and it was the year before when they gave out the last one.

clemenza, Monday, 28 August 2017 14:51 (eight years ago)

ten months pass...

RIP Robby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6n0tPn0gk

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 July 2018 03:46 (seven years ago)

rip robby. what a gorgeous tribute, thx for posting that morbs!

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 July 2018 03:56 (seven years ago)

btw he was never nominated for an Oscar, if you need a reminder about what bullshit that bunch is.

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:08 (seven years ago)

The other night I sat down to watch Bogdanovich's They All Laughed and was surprised to find that Muller was the DP. New York looks good - but the movie is insufferably arch and I gave up after 20 minutes or so. I'm not a Tarantino hater by any means, but his claim that this one is a masterpiece is indefensible.

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:16 (seven years ago)

I gave up at a similar point... but Muller also did Bogdanovich's Saint Jack, shot on location in Singapore with Ben Gazzara, a film I like a lot.

the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:20 (seven years ago)

Sounds like I picked the wrong Bog/Mul joint to screen (doesn't seem to be an easily/cheaply available Region 2 disc of Saint Jack, unfortunately)

Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:28 (seven years ago)

Oh wow St. Jack is my favorite Bogdanovich. The "making of " book is great, too.

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 13 July 2018 03:26 (seven years ago)

Watched "The American Friend" for the hundredth time the day I heard Muller passed. The quality of light, among other things in that film, is remarkable.

An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 13 July 2018 03:30 (seven years ago)

five months pass...

ASC picks the top 100 milestone films in 20th century cinematography:

https://theasc.com/news/asc-unveils-list-of-100-milestone-films-in-cinematography-of-the-20th-century

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), shot by Freddie Young, BSC (Dir. David Lean)
2. Blade Runner (1982), shot by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC (Dir. Ridley Scott)
3. Apocalypse Now (1979), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Citizen Kane (1941), shot by Gregg Toland, ASC (Dir. Orson Welles)
5. The Godfather (1972), shot by Gordon Willis, ASC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
6. Raging Bull (1980), shot by Michael Chapman, ASC (Dir. Martin Scorsese)
7. The Conformist (1970), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
8. Days of Heaven (1978), shot by Néstor Almendros, ASC (Dir. Terrence Malick)
9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), shot by Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC with additional photography by John Alcott, BSC (Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
10. The French Connection (1971), shot by Owen Roizman, ASC (Dir. William Friedkin)

love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:15 (six years ago)

does steven fierberg keep a toy skull in every room of his house? but seriously, it's a solid list, even if I think Roizman's films are ugly.

adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:30 (six years ago)

Same, though I guess French Connection was trend-settingly ugly.

love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:32 (six years ago)

John Alton dissed

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 22:40 (six years ago)

No way!

Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 23:22 (six years ago)

OK, I'll ask. Which of his many, many films would you say stands out from the pack?

love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 00:05 (six years ago)

a little noir called The Big Combo, honeybunch.

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 00:56 (six years ago)

Well, I guess if Being There, Mississippi Burning, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were considered canonical enough examples of cinematography, then yes.

love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 01:05 (six years ago)

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIeWSQM7Zgo

(wtf was Oscar thinking in 2008 and 2009?)

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 February 2019 03:16 (six years ago)

2008 was the last real Oscar juggernaut (maybe ever), and 2009 was a big mistake.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:31 (six years ago)

I was going to guffaw over the '74 award, The Towering Inferno over Godfather II and Chinatown, but it turns out Godfather II wasn't even nominated. Earthquake was, though.

(Full disclosure: I have never seen The Towering Inferno or Earthquake. Maybe they look fantastic.)

clemenza, Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:42 (six years ago)

Towering Inferno looks p great imo & i think v impressive for its time- and I do recommend it, it is PEAK cavalcade of stars disaster movie

I dont remember Earthquake being all that amazing tho? but it was so fkn long & i spent most of its runtime yelling at Charlton Heston for being a dickbag to everyone so i am probably not remembering it in its full glory

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 February 2019 19:57 (six years ago)

This shot sums up Towering Inferno: It looks good and is completely ridiculous.

https://i.imgur.com/KpXepYV.jpg

pplains, Saturday, 23 February 2019 23:14 (six years ago)

Where you go, haha wtf, no that's awesome

https://i.imgur.com/XfvWERw.gif

pplains, Saturday, 23 February 2019 23:17 (six years ago)

Fuckit, Towering Inferno shoulda won a Grammy for Cinematography too.

https://i.imgur.com/oV3SRd6.gif

pplains, Saturday, 23 February 2019 23:21 (six years ago)

HARD AGREE

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:13 (six years ago)

everyone should watch Towering Inferno

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:13 (six years ago)

Honestly--this isn't meant to be mean or snobbish or anything like that. I'm laughing--with you, I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkvD7-u7y8

clemenza, Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:16 (six years ago)

Playing to type with an SCTV clip negates any hard feelings.

pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:28 (six years ago)

They should've given equal billing to McQueen, Newman, and that lamp up in that last gif.

pplains, Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:29 (six years ago)

otm, lamp was robbed

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 February 2019 00:46 (six years ago)


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