What movies were shot digitally? (1 Viewer)

[Tom Martin]

the only movie that i know of that was shot using digital cameras is "Once Upon a Time in Mexico". anything else?

 

[Haggai]

"The Anniversary Party" was all digital video.

 

[Joey Skinner]

"The Wager" (2002) Watched this on HDnet recently.

 

[Matt Pelham]

Pieces of April
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Spy Kids 3D

 

[Guy Martin]

This is in no way a complete list, but films using the Sony hi-def 24p camera used for OUATIM:

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (just the scene on the balcony where Qui-gon tests Anakin's blood)
Vidocq (French)
The Truth about Charlie (night scenes only)
How High
Session 9
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (3-D high def)
Step into Liquid (interviews only)
Ghosts of the Abyss (3-D high def)
The Long and Short of It (Sean Astin's short film, on the 2-disc Two Towers DVD)

Coming soon:
Star Wars Episode III
Collateral
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Casshern (Japanese)

TV Shows:
Boomtown
Star Trek: Enterprise
Earth: Final Conflict
The Education of Max Bickford

There are also countless independent and even a few studio films that are shot using standard-definition digital video cameras like the kind you can get at Best Buy. In addition to the previously mentioned Anniversary Party, some others include:

28 Days Later
Dancer in the Dark
The Idiots
The King is Alive
Pieces of April
Personal Velocity
Timecode
Hotel
Bamboozled


- Guy

 

[Kevin Porter]

The groundbreaking Russian Ark was filmed entirely in one long, 90 minute take and this was only achievable using a digital camera (film reels only last eight minutes). Isn't the FX show The Shield filmed with a digital camera of some sort?

 

[Tom Martin]

what about Underworld? on the back of the DVD box it says it was mastered in high definition, but i'm not exactly sure what that means.

 

[JonZ]

Sex & Lucia

mmmmm Pazzzz (drooool)

 

[Guy Martin]

Tom-

That just means the video transfer was done in high definition, then downsampled for the DVD. The movie was still shot on 35mm film.

For that matter most DVDs of recent movies have been "mastered in high definition".

- Guy

 

[Patrick McCart]

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra was shot with a Canon XL-1, I think.

 

[Chuck_W]

I believe CastAway was shot in digital

 

[Terry St]

Atanarjuat (a.k.a The Fast Runner) was shot in digital.

 

[ChrisBEA]

Last i knew, film reels were up to 20 minutes?

 

[Sean Moon]

Cast Away was shot on film as far as I know. Never knew of any information saying otherwise.

 

[Michael Pakula]

The Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian was shot in digital.


-Mike

 

[Matthew Chmiel]

The movie Camp was another film shot in high definition (too bad the DVD transfer sucks).

 

[Chuck_W]

Sean...you may be right about Cast Away. But I thought I remembered Zemeckis (on the commentary track) mentioning something about this being the first movie he shot entirely in digital.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Film reels, for projection, are generally around 20 minutes max. However, most cameras can only hold around 8-10 minutes of film.

 

[Matt Butler]

I think Jason X was digital as well

 

[ChrisBEA]

Thanks Patrick!