Big Release Movies Made on MiniDV?

Please let's not forget the beautifully shot 28 Days Later

Also...

Dancer In The Dark
Julien Donkey Boy
The Celebration
The Anniversary Party
Red Cockroaches
Hotel

and it's not out yet but DEFINITELY check out MAREBITO (by Ju-On director, Takashi Shimizu)
 
Jarred Land said:
Yeah.. that, as Canon believes, is what killed Canon. Canon spent so much money on the marketing of that relationship.. seriously, EVERY single magazine, sometimes twice was pushing Soderberg and the XL1s... and then Steven went and whacked the footage to hell so it looked like ****, when it came out and people saw it you could hear crickets in the Canon order office.
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Full Frontal looks like **** on the big screen and I just watched it again on pay-cable and it still looks like ****.

28 Days Latter looked like **** in the theatre, but is beautiful on DVD. I was amazed by it.
 
John Landis directed on doc called Slasher about a traveling car salesman. I just saw it a couple of weeks ago and thought it was fantastic. It was shot with the DVX.
 
24hr Party People - excellent Manchester music movie

Five Obstructions - Lars Von Trier shoots mostly on video, and I think it's MinDV
 
Everyone forgot "A Day Without A Mexican".

It's not quite a blockbuster, but not a B-Movie either. Filmed on mini DV and was cut on FCP.

-andrew
 
I'd say:

The Fast Runner( although not a huge release) but a populat filmfest film.

Savage Island- low budgeted raw-looking DV horror film that made waves at genre-related filmfests.
 
24 Hour party people was shot on various formats. Some was 35mm, some HD & some mini Dv, Prizes for working out which bits are what.......
 
I just watched a great new documentary last night called The Comedians of Comedy (not to be confused with the follow-up series airing on Comedy Central). It features some great comics: Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Zach Galifianakis, and Maria Bamford. In a few shots of the movie, you can see other cameras, all are DVX's (I couldn't quite tell if they were 100's or 100a's, though). The footage looked very nice.

Did anyone else think Last Life in the Universe looked pretty bad? I know that's an odd thing to say considering Chris Doyle shot it, and his stuff usually looks amazing, but something was definitely off in Last Life. It almost looked like film, yet not. When the movie was over, I looked it up on IMDB and it's listed as 35mm there, but it's definitely a blow-up. Something in the rendering of motion is off - like they shot at 29.97 and then converted to 24p, or something. Does anyone know any more about this?

Also if anyone's seen the latest Don Roos film, Happy Endings, it was shot all on film (as far as I can tell), but a DVX and a Final Cut Pro rig figure prominently into the plot. Definitely worth checking out, it's a good movie besides.
 
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