Cinematography specific featurettes

[Shawn Murphy]

I just got finished going through this thread:

"Best behind the scenes "
http://www.dvxuser.com/V3/showthread.php?t=24278&highlight=featurette


..but I was wondering if anyone has any favorites that deal more specifically with the Cinematography/lighting, not special effects or stunts or Director commentary per se, but more for the perspective of setting up shots from a cinematographer's perspective: tools, techniques, sets, etc.


From the other list I have Godard's Contempt on order and I've seen a number of others but nothing is standing out as exceptional in this department.



And here's a BIG list of titles that apparently have Cinematographer commentary (from a thread over on cinematography.com), anybody have recommendations from this list or others:

R.F.A.D, Abandon, The Speed of Life - Matthew Libatique

Roger Dodger - Joaquin Baca-Asay

Empire, Green Dragon, The Man From Elysian Fields -Kramer Morgenthau

Black Narcissus - Jack Cardiff

Fargo (Special Edition) - Roger Deakins

Do The Right Thing (Criterion) - Ernest Dickerson

Donnie Darko - Steven Poster

Field Of Dreams (Anniversary Edition) - John Lindley

Malcolm X - Ernest Dickerson - this was just released. Ernest should have been nominated for ASC and Academy for his work on this film.

Goodfellas - Michael Ballhaus

Personal Velocity - Ellen Kuras

George Washington - Tim Orr

End of the Affair - Roger Pratt

K-19/The Widowmaker - Jeff Cronenweth

Sunrise -F.W. Murnau -commentary by John Bailey

LOTR, FOTR, ROTK -Andrew Lesnie, Alex Funke ( i think this trilogy has the most commentaries of all time)

From Hell - Peter Deming

Rashomon (Criterion) comes with a special DVD documentary "The World of Kazuo Miyagawa"

Band of Outsiders (Criterion) - Raoul Coutard

Legends of The Fall (Special Edition) - John Toll

The Dreamers - Neal L. Fredericks

Monsoon Wedding -Declan Quinn

Mad Max (Special Edition) -David Eggsby

Se7en (Special Edition) - Darius Khondji

Fight Club - Jeff Cronenweth

Panic Room (Special Edition) - Conrad W. Hall

Alien 3 (from Quadrilogy set extra CD ) -Alex Thomson, worth it to see Fincher in action directiing as well as schooling a Fox executive

X-Men 2 - Newton Thomas Sigel

Dark City- Darius Wolski

Blade - Theo Van Sande

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - Newton Thomas Sigel

Glengarry Glen Ross - Juan Ruiz Anchia

Walkabout - Nicolas Roeg

American Beauty - Conrad Hall with Sam Mendes.

In the Mouth of Madness - Gary Kibbe

Moulin Rouge - Don McAlpine

Romeo and Juliet - Don Mc Alpine

Insomnia - Wally Pfister

Purple Rain (20th Anniversary DVD)- Don Thorin

Monster's Ball - Roberto Schaefer

Oceans 11 - Steven Soderbergh

The Cooler - Jim Whitaker

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Frank G. DeMarco

Fabulous Baker Boys - Michael Ballhaus

Light Keeps Me Company - DVD about Sven Nykvist, has comments from Vittorio Storaro interview

 

[monte]

Nice list, thanks.

I don't have anything to add, I'm afraid

 

[Jeremy Ordan]

Fight Club has a great commentary track where they are talking about a certain type of glass that they used. Waaaaay too high above my head to understand, but I'm sure to people who shoot on glass the lighting and glass issues could prove valuable.

 

[Shawn Murphy]

thanks, sounds interesting, I'll check it out.... surprised I didn't already, but I don't actually own it.

 

[Shawn Murphy]

I just finished watching Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and in the extras there was a good shot of some Steadicam action; man, this guy was running and turning and what's up with the bounce board, does that really add enough to be useful in that situation?

Here's a clip from the extra that shows the Steadicam action: http://www.stickypod.com/stickypod_upload/uploads/MrMsSmithExtraSteadicam.wmv

 

[Jay Rodriguez]

LOL, I saw that over the weekend and thought the same thing. Along with how the dude almost ruined the shot by getting run down on. lol

 

[starcentral]

A blast from the past... I wonder if anyone has any good ones to add to this list.

 

[j]

Cine related featurettes:

1970's invasion of the body snatchers
Requiem for a dream
Amelie
Dances w/ wolves
Traffic
Diving bell and butterfly
The conformist
Roshomon
Runaway Jury
Wall-E

I've been collecting these for a while...

 

[j]

This is great too:
http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Below-The-Line-Cinematography/dp/B000NA6DDA

 

[starcentral]

Bloody Mary (2006) is an indie film with a lot of good info on the lighting. Specifically it was shot with only two 1200w HMI's and small tungsten package, the DP also talks about the grading process and how they were able to get more a "film look" through grading techiques.