PopcornAndDots Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 There was a documentary done in 1992 called Visions of Light that is about cinematography and has some wonderful interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 Also try ") documentary Cinematographer Style". It has interviews with about 110 cinematographers from around the world, asking them about their influences and how they create the cinematographic style they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgeciff Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 There is an excellent book called HOLLYWOOD CAMERMEN by Charles Higham published in 1970. There are interviews with major American cinematagraphers such as James Wong Howe, Leon Shamroy, Wiliam Daniels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopcornAndDots Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsclassic Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I had salad for lunch today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 does anyone notice a facial resemblence between Conan O'Brien and Meryl Streep? To me, they look like brother and sister... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopcornAndDots Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I think the close camera shots will diminish once the performers see how bad they look in high definition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 The worst offender in this department is the movie South Pacific - I thought there was something wrong with my set when I first saw this, I wonder whose idea it was to use different color lenses for different scenes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineMaven Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 "...does anyone notice a facial resemblence between Conan O'Brien and Meryl Streep?" Nah...I think Streep and actress Natasha McElhone look like sisters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ayresorchids Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 For me the top peeve is all the recent use of hand-held cameras in movies that are not documentaries. Supposedly this lends some verisimilitude, but it just makes me constantly conscious of the camera, which has the opposite effect. (It also makes me a bit seasick.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Ayres, I agree ... I can't stand it when the hand-held camera zooms in and out ... nausea city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 You are right about hand held cameras, another pet peeve of mine is slow-motion to show someone running or falling off a building, what the director doesn't realize, once he shows the scene in slow-motion he takes all the fright and drama out of the scene, and tells the audience 'it's only a movie'...Phooey on slow- motion... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Phooey on slow- motion... I could kissya for that comment. Boy, do I hate slow-motion, an almost sure sign that a director has limited or no faith in the quality of his/her material. Sam Peckinpah should rot in hell for making this sort of rubbish "fashionable." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 LZ: Thank you for mentioning Visions of Light. I hadn't thought of this fine documentary film in a while; how soon could TCM show it? It was nominated for an Academy Award, I believe. The opening sequence is a killer! Loved it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Another pet peeve of mine is lighting, used in newer movies, for some reason, what they call 'natural' lighting is prefered in modern movies, this means the scenes are 'lit' with only the daylight coming in from the windows, these films are photographed so dark as to confuse the audience and strain the eyes, trying to figure out what is going on. This is why I prefer old black and white movies, they were lit to show shadows but the characters were as vividly lit and as clear as a newsreel, they don't make black and white movies anymore, mores the pity, and look how clear and bright the Technicolor movies of the 1940's were, I sometimes think we went backward and are making all the mistakes they avoided in the 1940's..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whistlingypsy Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Thanks for mentioning the lighting?this drives me crazy! I will watch a movie in the theatre and the lighting is so dark that not only does the setting disappear; I can barely see the actor?s faces. Is there no light source in their world? I watch the same movie on DVD and, Viola! There is light in their world! I don?t understand this phenomenon, but I have begun to believe that my eyes are ?too old? to watch new movies in the movie theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 If the theater is using a platter projection system (not a digital projector), it may be that the bulb in the projector is old. If that's the case, the film will appear dark because the bulb is not projecting enough light to the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryjmartin Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I find the lighting irritating. What good is it to be natural lighting if you can't see anything. Another thing that bothers me is the quick cuts from one scene to the next and fast motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopcornAndDots Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Does anyone besides me see a resemblence between Paul McCartney and Angela Lansbury ? . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Not sure, but I hear Ms. Lansbury plays a mean bass guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 How about Ida Lupino and Annette Benning ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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