this scene from Road to Perdition could have been a 17c dutch realist painting

#film #movies #art #painting #artHistory

Alt...

A static shot from the film Road to Perdition. The frame is split roughly in half, bisected by an adjoining wall. The left is a hallway and entryway to a home. The right side is a deep field shot of a boy sitting in a room on a bed, facing the camera. The scene is lit coldly, with an almost foggy, ethereal mood. It gives you the feeling that the boy has been waiting in this room a long time for someone to walk through the door on the left.

incredible article, now 25 years old, on the lighting and cinematography of Conrad Hall & Sam Mendes' Road To Perdition.

"The palette for the movie was very muted," Mendes says. "Very early on, Conrad and I talked about creating a sense of great contrast within images by using hard light from the side and chiaroscuro. We wanted dark backgrounds and dark sets with dark, muted greens and grays.

"For example, he'll use black silk for daylight exteriors because it cuts a perfect amount of light to make a scene look as though it's in the shade. White silk makes light flare, but black silk doesn't bring all that flare back and doesn't fill the whole scene up with fill light. On this film, we never shot in harsh sunlight; we always used black silks to dim down the scene and then relit it the way Conrad wanted it to look. He also uses different papers and double softs, and mixes hard and soft light almost constantly."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230606072340/https://theasc.com/magazine/aug02/perdition/index.html

source: American Cinematographer - Emotional Triggers (August, 2002)

#movies #cinematography #film #art

Alt...

A scene from the climax of Road to Perdition, showing tom hanks walking towards the camera holding a tommy gun. The scene is filmed in the pouring rain, with a sepia tone. The scene is lit warmly, from a light source above, making tom hanks a silhouette.

"David was a crazy workaholic, just like my dad. They were both people who were used to being creative every waking moment of their life. So for David, doing Labyrinth was like being on vacation." —Ann Lee's oral history for The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/david-bowie-workaholic-labyrinth-at-40-oral-history/?src=longreads

#longreads #labyrinth #bowie #film #cultclassic #reading #oralhistory

If you like cinematography and special effects, you might enjoy Rachel Talalay's "How I Filmed This" series:

https://www.youtube.com/@howifilmedthis-racheltalalay

I love this stuff.

#Film #DoctorWho #Cinematography #VFX

All the more reason for a #Buddhist #pilgrimage in #NYC
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/17/disclosure-day-aliens-spielberg-emily-blunt-and-josh-o-connor?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #spielberg #film #hollywood #movies #ufos

I liked Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny more than lot of people seem to (though that negativity is amplified by the Internet). I did think it was too long, and was chronically short of Marion Ravenwood, Sallah, and Short Round.

#MovieADay #Movies #Film #Cinema

Alt...

One sheet poster for Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny

Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/16/sean-penn-bradley-cooper-january-6-film
#news #NarcissistInChief #film #movie #protest #resist #January6th

"Persuading the Roses to let the crew shoot in — and drive a car through — their bespoke glass-and-steel home felt to Coker like a hard sell."

Jason Klamm in Chicago Magazine: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/june-july-2026/inside-ferris-buellers-iconic-ferrari-crash-scene/

#Longreads #Books #Chicago #Cars #Film #Cinema #Movies #FerrisBueller #Architecture

#Movies #TheMatrix #Film

Disclosure (the new Spielberg film) has had zero appeal to me but the reviews are very positive... so my ears have perked up a bit

#scifi #film

The Wind and the Lion | Full Movie with Sean Connery
https://youtu.be/D-In3mEfBxg

This movie was filmed before the normalization of brainless Hollywood portrayals of all foreigners as mindless drones. It showed an era of mutual respect and honor codes between adversaries instead of jingoistic 'light of the world' self-worship.

No spoilers. It is too good for that.

#WorthIt #SeanConnery #ClassicFilm #FullMovie #Movies #Film #Cinema #History #TeddyRoosevelt #Berbers

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @movies@a.gup.pe @classics@a.gup.pe @film@a.gup.pe

Alt...

Bearded Berber Sultan with black and red head dress, portrayed by Sean Conner in the movie, The Wind and the Lion.