It was wondered in comments ("To single any of you out would be a big mistake!") a couple mos. ago if any of Hollywood's product was still shot on chemically-developed film. We didn't know either, & because we were so lazy/disinterested we expended almost no energy searching. Which is good, because when
we chanced on this it was a complete & random surprise.
While digital cameras have become common, there are still high-profile filmmakers that are not giving up on celluloid. J.J. Abrams is making his Star Wars movie on film. Also using film is Christopher Nolan for his Interstellar, Wally Pfister for Transcendence and Marc Webb for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Six of the nine movies nominated for the Oscar for best picture were shot on film.
Film, however, will be just as dead as the rest of us in the long run.
Asked if Kodak will continue to invest R&D in new stock, Evenski responded that Kodak is currently focused on work toward controlling costs, as the volume of film production has obviously decreased. "We're focused on keeping the cost of film down and making it a viable option," he said.
2 comments:
It's arrogant living in the past and claiming it's a creative necessity. If you WANT the look of film, you can set up the digital systems to provide it. If you want the brighter, flatter appearance of digital, you can have that too, just by using, well, digital. You can shoot in 4K resolution and have the better purity and accuracy, store the raw video streams and make them what you want.
The technology has passed these prima donnas by, and if they can't figure out how to do their job without gimmicks like shooting with 1980s technology, then they need to go take a long dirt nap in the legacy part of the library...
All I'm gonna say (again) is that vinyl records were supposed to die, too.
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