November 2009
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Sony Details SRW-9000 Future Proof Road Map →
Sony’s legacy of creating industry leading content creation tools took the next step today with the announcement of an HDCAM SR camcorder platform and upgrade road map that raises the price / performance standard for broadcast and Digital Cinema production. The new platform will exist in both 2/3” and 35mm formats and will work in seamless concert with both tape and memory based media for “full...
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Live Technologies - Live Lens →
LiveLens contrast control can provide latitude and creative possibilities never before possible.
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The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil
The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil will be screening at the Sunset Gower Studios (Stage 5) in Los Angeles on Thursday December 10th as part of NewFilmmakers LA. Tickets are $5.
Sinisa Kukic served as the cinematographer on the film.
http://www.greengoldfilm.net/the-strange-rebirth-of-andre-weil.html
http://newfilmmakersla.com/pages/program.html
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Watchconversation with Werner Herzog
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Independent Lens on PBS airs Kovacs/Zsigmond...
Two Hungarian film students escaped communist Hungary in 1956, with little more than a camera and a shopping bag full of film. Over the next 50 years, Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond would reinvent Hollywood moviemaking for an entire generation—and maintain an iron-clad friendship along the way.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/no-subtitles-necessary/
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http://shorpy.com/ →
It’s an archive of literally thousands of high resolution scans of historic photographs. Kodachromes, glass negative, albumen prints, really incredibly beautiful stuff.
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Gordon Willis – Honorary Award →
Cinematographer on some of the most acclaimed motion pictures of the 1970s and ’80s, two-time Oscar nominee Gordon Willis served as director of photography on three Best Picture winners in six years: “The Godfather” (1972), “The Godfather Part II” (1974) and “Annie Hall” (1977). Though his willingness to fly in the face of convention led him to break new ground with daring compositions, lighting...
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Construction on $80 mm studio underway →
Construction is underway to convert a 330,000-sq. ft warehouse into the first of what could be seven to soundstages for Chicago Film Studios, on the 50 acre Ryerson Steel campus on the Southwest Side.
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AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa →
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Trash Humbers - Excerpts →
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, Trash Humpers follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and...
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The Cosmic Spectrum →