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CINAMASCOPE & TECHNICOLOR
I'm watching Pappillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Outstanding performances. First time I've seen it complete becuse no commercials. And lack of patience.
Wonderful CI NA MAS CO PE
Movies in Technicolor are marvolous--but too expensive to shoot.
Photography and scenary remarkable. You almost wonder why they would want to getaway from that coastline. Shot in Jamaica.
Instead we get crap with special effects for cinamatography. Weak story-lines shored up by explosives. Keenu Reeves style of acting.
A few movies actually benefit from special effects--like Matrix, Crouching Tiger... .
Most are just pyrotechnics.
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Recently saw a "cult classic" on DVD. Carnival of Souls . Made in three weeks by Herk Herve, an industrial-educational filmaker in small-town Lawrence, Kansas in 1962. Then switches to Salt Lake City, UT in an old , abandoned Pavillion. Made for $30,000.
Watched "directer's Cut" on DVD and not just some x-tra cutting-room garbage. Remarkable B & W photography. Everything worked--for 30 grand. Herve never made a theatrical release after 'Carnival'. Too bad.
Nice seeing 'Middle America' caught in brilliant photography--from forty years ago. A bit of Americana.
Any gems you'd like to recommend ?
MegalosSkylaki
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