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Parallax View
The Future of Cinematography (Part 1 of 2)
Discussing the impact of new technologies on the power of the cinematographer to control images.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: Film Is Dead!
The argument can be made that we might eventually outrun ourselves with digital technology, and that we sometimes seem to bet hopelessly on a dead horse, so to speak.
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TheFilmBook
IBC - 2. LED, Texture, Unity, Art, Robby
The IBC Show is the occasion to review the current themes in cinema technology, and to peek into the future.
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John's Bailiwick
The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
What constitutes a library? Most of us regard it as a scholarly institution administered by a state or private entity. You and I began to create our personal libraries willy-nilly with the first books we acquired as students.
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TheFilmBook
IBC - 1. Sensors, Screens, Boyle, Bennett
The IBC Show is the occasion to review the current themes in cinema technology, and to peek into the future.
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Shot Craft
Diffusion Confusion
Diffusion filters — also referred to as “gels” — are the most common tools for altering the quality of light sources. AC tested a number of regularly used diffusions and see what their exact effects really are.
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President's Desk
President’s Desk: The Master of Light, Deconstructed
“Robby, wherever in the universe you are now, we miss you dearly.”
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John's Bailiwick
Tatsuya Nakadai: “The 8th Samurai,” Part 2: Goyokin
I have championed Goyokin since I first saw it in 1969. In 1984, I began preproduction in Japan on Paul Schrader's Mishima, about Japan’s greatest post-World War II writer. I asked the production office to set up a screening of Goyokin for the Japanese crew. No one recalled having seen the film.
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