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Author Topic: Mitchell 300 BNCR cameras... Simon Wyss Film Handler Posts: 80 From: Basel, BS, Switzerland Registered: Apr 2011 posted 11-12-2013 01:40 PM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Linear Loop is way too fussy of a system to even be considered here. Agreed. Let’s not lose the subject. Actually, I wanted to see a positive aspect with the bulky, heavy camera. Stanley Kubrick has made films that age remarkably less well than other productions, so seen lately with Barry Lyndon. I loved the movie at the time but today the myth has faded. Sometimes it gets boring. There was the Dogma 95 movement, a foolish game in my eyes. Cinema is a most artificial thing, so trying to maintain or even gain any kind of realism by handholding the camera can only be seen as childish, can’t it? My admiration in the American cinema was always for the Western with horses and trains. Especially the horses films are unique worldwide, and there were Mitchell cams most of the time. They could tell stories back then, plain stories for plain people! The camera was carefully leveled to the horizon, something more and more disregarded. Cat on the shoulder? Crap in the head!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-12-2013 08:00 PM                     Yes, well we have John Ford Point at Monument Valley. Making Westerns here is pretty easy. Just add horse, saddle and rider as my Friend Rochard Strange did to get this picture. Getting back to Stan Kubrick... So you're saying that Dr. Strangelove didn't age well? Or that Clockwork Orange has actually aged at all or The Shining? I disagree... and much of Strangelove was shot with hand held Arri 2C's, Shining with a BL on a Steadicam. Some pretty remarkable achievements in all those films if you ask me. Barry Lyndon's cinematography never gets boring... but the script was very boring from the very beginning, at least to me!  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-12-2013 08:45 PM                       I agree with Mark G here. His best films still work as well as ever. I still get goose bumps at certain scenes out of Dr. Strangelove and The Shining. Paths of Glory still works. "Spartacus" not so much for me. I ran "Barry Lyndon" way too many times and it was an innovation to work with available light but the story seemed just plain bland and boring despite all the beauty. Ryan O'Neal was a bad choice for a lead. He played a General in some big WW11 movie and one reviewer said, "Follow Ryan O'Neal into Battle; I wouldn't follow him into the Men's room!".  |  IP: Logged

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