beatnik326 wrote:"Reconstruction" [...] I didn't care much for the film
hey, what was that again? it's great. ;-) perhaps it's a nordic thing, but hearing krister henriksson talk about how all that's needed is some smoke? just fantastic. i *need* him for my next film.
Might be a Nordic thing, but much of our theater's board of directors really liked "Reconstruction," so we do have love for Denmark here in Iowa.
I'm finishing a cinema degree at the University of Iowa and am part of the student-run cinema, the Bijou Theater. We screen two new films every week, and Reconstruction is just finishing up a run.
wahiba wrote:I have just watched the War Game a BBC TV film shot in b&w, probably 16mm. It could have been shot in regular 8mm and still have been good.
Only 45 min,it was made for TV and then banned so ended up on the big screen. Years since I watched it, but it must be still the best 'what happens if the bomb drops' film ever made.
What actually makes it even worse was the fact that I lived in the target zone depicted.
That movie is featured in a book I like, called something like "The New Documentary in Action". I've always wanted to see it...
It does not appear on the amazon usa site. I looked through the BBC offerings, and that was a revelation. BBC DVDs on sale in the USA include 'Are you being served', 'Keeping up Appearances' and 'the Vicar of Dibley'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New web site and this is cine page http://www.picsntech.co.uk/cine.html
Following on a theme, the TV drama "Threads", from the 80's would have been possible on the small gauge, or mabey sections of it.
If anyone is not familiar with this, it was about a nuclear bomb being dropped basically on the UK and the aftermath. I watched it in school aged 15, put on by our English teacher - I have never seen any piece of drama that even comes close in terms of impact. If you haven't seen it - find it and watch it.
Aparrently, the next day after it was screened on UK television, it impacted on international negotiations.
Birmingham UK. http://www.wells-photography.co.uk
Avatar: Kenneth Moore (left) with producers (centre) discussing forthcoming film to be financed by my grandfather (right) C.1962
there actually IS a cinema full feature film, shot entirely in S8. It´s the film "heilt Hitler" of Achternbusch. (title is a semantic joke)
The film has been shot for economical reasons on S8, WITHOUT using the conversion filter, resulting in a blueish look. I watched it many years ago on tv, but I did not like it. Not because it had been shot in S8 (what makes no difference on tv screen) but because I found it simply a boring film. Maybe I did not understand it at that time.
BTW, I have read that most European cinema production are shot on S16mm, while US Productions prefere 35 mm.
Blow-up servicese from S8 to any other gauge are available at Andec in Berlin. Andec also offers a new service to make positive prints from S8 negative stock, and that at a reasonable price!
Pedro
"Heilt Hitler" was shot in 1984 in only 11 days and is 146 minutes. Blown up to 35 mm and distributed to the cinemas. The story is about a Geman soldir, coming back to Germany from Stalingrad after World War 2. Here he finds more and more that the German society is another kind of "Stalingrad".
Pedro
Pedro wrote:BTW, I have read that most European cinema production are shot on S16mm, while US Productions prefere 35 mm.
that used to be the case, but video has taken over much of the 16mm, and the big budget films are shot in 35mm even in europe. what amazes me is that 16mm seems to get used so little in the united states. every time somebody shoots a feature on 16mm and gets it distributed nationally people seem to think it's a fantastic underground no budget achievment, just as if somebody would have done it on super 8 in europe...
