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04-21-2006, 11:48 PM
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John Rice
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I'll go with How Green Was My Valley
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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04-22-2006, 12:06 AM
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Shit, no wonder the HTF server crashed!
Great shots!
STAR WARS
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04-22-2006, 01:27 AM
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Are those SW shots the ones that were tinkered with? I don't recall the original trilogy looking that good but either way my vote goes to HOW GREEN. The last two shots makes it the clear winner to me.
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04-22-2006, 02:08 AM
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John Alton wouldn't have put Star Wars in Visions of Light if it didn't look great. The only thing done to any of these screengrabs (via power dvd) was the resolution was changed to 72dpi with a 400 pixel height. Whether or not the scene of Luke outside of the burning homestead was tinkered with I can't say. Those colors may have been in the original negative but never appeared so clearly when scene on a sixth generation print screened two thousand times. or it could be because that shot lasts all of three seconds when they cut away from a Luke close up to the long shot I used and then wipe to the death star. Also I didn't really notice the colors in that shot until I freeze framed it because it is on screen so quickly. I don't think the other shots would have been affected as much. The closeup character lighting in Star Wars is brilliant. ObiWan is lit slighly differently from Han or Luke when on Tatooine, and that particular scene "for over a thousand generations" is particularly exceptional.
Vader's entrance has always been one of my favorite photographic moments of the series, the black silhoette stepping through the smoke and fog and sea of white forms, moving over a mass of bodies.
The photography of Star wars is often overlooked, cinematographically, the scene with Leah and Tarkin is one of my favorites, the way Cushing uses his body and Lucas and Taylor use the framing to crush Leah between Tarkin and Vader and (hopefully) break her spirit.
All of these are hosted off site on my website, I can make them smaller if it becomes an issue for HTF.  right now each is about 100k. I'm just glad I didn't start this monday as I planned.
Arthur Miller wrote an article in 1941 about the advances in interior lighting that let him shoot HGWMV, it's a great article and AC recently reprinted it. Also note his different closeup lighting on Hew (at the most romantic lighting he gets in the film) and Angharad
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04-22-2006, 05:50 AM
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Star Wars
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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04-22-2006, 09:38 AM
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My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5
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