Digital BW, The Print

Exactly, The Cohen brothers use the color of light very prominently.  Fargo
was a cool film, while "Brother Where Art Thou" was a warm film for the deep
south.  Actually they digitally manipulated the color tone in "Brother"...to
get the warm tone that they wanted to fit the film.  Atom Egoyan, a Canadian
who did "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Exotica" is another one who uses the tone
of the film to his advantage.  I recently saw a 70mm film...can't remember
its title...it was shot over the course of a full year in a northern
Norwegian lake town...the change in the tone of light was captivating from
summer to winter...but it was always cool to my eye...that far north.  There
is another northern film coming out at least in LA and NYC..."Fast Runner",
I believe is the title, it's an Inuit film that was filmed entirely on
location in the north...the trailer that I saw several weeks ago was
incredibly beautiful and really cool in tone....  In contrast, "Monsoon
Wedding", the Indian film that we went to see that night was incredibly warm
in tone...once again with sweltering heat to go with it...so in color work
in film there seems to be a North/South color tone tradition.

Robert



On 4/9/02 10:55 AM, "mkravit" <michael.kravit@...> wrote:

> Do you mean like "Fargo"?
> 
> Mike
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Robert Morrison
> <rmorrison@p...> wrote:
>> PS  There might be something to the North Dakota thing...movies
> that are
>> made in the far north have a very different character of
> light...certainly
>> cool to my eye.  Funny, I like it in Cinema (e.g., The Sweet
>> Hereafter)...but not in BW prints...alas...I'm off to the
>> ophthalmologist...and then to the psychiatrist!
> 
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