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Gregg Toland was not a "hired hand."

That comment may hold true for the DP of Happy Days but I can assure you that AG Iñárritu doesn't consider Emmanuel Lubezki simply a "worker for hire." Ditto with many other director/ cinematographer collaborations.

If I remember correctly from an article I'm too lazy to search for, the damaged static shot was of Brando in the hospital w Pacino.

And Martin Landau who received an Oscar nom. I worked at Paramount at that time - in PR/Marketing - and remember being disappointed that he didn't win. Ditto for his turn in Crimes and Misdemeanors. Was thrilled that he was able to top these performances and receive an Oscar for Ed Wood. He...

i wasn't being serious just raising my eyebrow really really high at that statement.

On the other hand, indisputable auteur, see the works of Stanley Kubrick.

"This would be fine if auteur theory had any basis in reality." - we are still having this argument? Making a statement like that should exclude you from any serious discussion about cinema. The auteur theory doesn't exclude the collaborative process. It doesn't exclude contributions by...

Nothing Coppola has ever said or done is as dumb as the above comment.

We have been in this interpretive territory with George Martin and esp Giles Martin remixes of the Beatles catalog. Updating, modernizing, remixing some of the stereo mixes. They are all "authorized" to some extent - as in signed off on by surviving stakeholders - so all are approved. Are...

Along w Gordon Willis, the work of cinematographers Bruce Surtees, Vittorio Storaro and Vilmos Zsigmond come to mind. These guys are often playing w slivers of light.

Probably not a lot of new revelations here but an enjoyable listen.

I'm not diminishing Willis' gifts as a cinematographer on a slew of the most influential films of all time. The man is and will always be one of the giants of cinematography. I was just stating facts. If he was still alive, I'm not quite sure there would have been this "rethink" of the...

Coppola is the boss and Gordon Willis is dead.

I agree. I saw it a month ago in a nice theater before all this HTF drama and apart from noticing that the wedding scenes looked a little "different" was just laser focused on the brilliant performances - maybe one of the greatest feats of casting in the history of cinema. And the brilliant...

For the record, I personally like more grain than less in these transfers. I have seen some Criterions add excessive amounts and I've also hated and removed from my collection over -smoothed transfers. The Godfather in the theater - looked like close to film. It wasn't as grainy as the...

The film will never look the way it did in 1972 release prints. We are dealing w fleeting ruins of memory trying to recapture something that doesnt exist anymore. Coppola approved this. He didn't do it with a gun to his head (or his signature ...) Accept this is for what it is - which was...

A Mega masterpiece. After seeing The Godfather a few weeks ago, I want to see all of Coppola's masterpieces on the big screen again. And this one in 35mm!

Maybe the cinematography for the wedding scene (I've read LIFE MAGAZINE color spread of the time which seems more on point) but "old postcard look" doesn't seem to apply to anything else in the film. If anything, the restoration really shows the heightened contrast of "darkness" of Don...