Posts Tagged ‘deep focus cinematography’
Kane enabled
10Jan11
Last night I saw Citizen Kane again. Like many film lovers of my generation, it has a special place in the heart, a dream of perfect cinema. The thrill is always a little different and last night it was the electrifying originality, the daring, the showmanship that struck me. It’s a film of shocks: you […]
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Tags: Citizen Kane, deep focus cinematography, Eastman Super XX film, Gregg Toland, Patrick Ogle
Paper Moon
29May10
Watching the 1973 movie Paper Moon is like seeing Walker Evans photographs come to life. Set in Kansas in 1935, it’s a road movie that follows its two characters across a series of marvellous landscapes and towns. It was shot by Laszlo Kovacs, a cinematographer celebrated for his location work (Easy Rider, The Last Picture […]
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Tags: deep focus, deep focus cinematography, Laszlo Kovacs, Orson Welles & Bogdanovich, Paper Moon
