Millimeter June 2005
By Michael Goldman
Chat with director Chris Nolan, winner of the ongoing, eight-year sweepstakes to helm a new version of the Batman story with this month's Batman Begins, and he will repeatedly stress a simple theme behind his philosophy for making the movie: “a realistic, naturalistic, rich, high-quality look.” That meant that Nolan did not want to make the proverbial “big effects film.” Early on, in fact, he vetoed an opportunity to perform a digital intermediate...
By Cynthia Wisehart
My almost-three-year-old laughed out loud as we passed the J.L. Fisher booth and the huge jib arm with the happy face swung down and brushed her on the...
By Michael Goldman
Robert Rodriguez says that even as production of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3D entered the 11th hour, he decided to make a major change in the postproduction...
By D. W. Leitner, Bob Turner, S. D. Katz, Michael Goldman, and Dan Ochiva
Who would have thought that pint-sized camcorders could cause such a stir? You didn't need Sherlock Holmes to find the crowds stuffing the booths that...
Picking a final 15 best of from NAB 2005 was tough. Here's a show that saw everything from three significant camcorder introductions to the first 4K projector to hit the market to a brilliant innovation from Kodak, the film industry's founding partner. Our judges had to make some difficult decisions to come up with our NAB 2005 Pick Hit finalists, but you'll benefit from their take...
By Ellen Wolff
Director Doug Liman knows how to show protagonists in peril....
By Michael Goldman
The Cave, which premieres in August, is a horror film chock full of creature-oriented visual effects (250 shots), but the workflow was anything but typical....
By Michael Goldman
When director Tom Zuber approached DP Lisa Wiegand to shoot a low-budget (less than $1 million) feature called Little Athens, they first discussed shooting...
By Michael Goldman
This year, American Idol became, among other things, the poster child for Avid's DNHD codec and its application in broadcast postproduction. That happened...
By Beck Finley
A selection of the hottest agency work submitted monthly to Millimeter...
By Darroch Greer
To see one of Arnaud Desplechin's films is to experience life at the tipping point, yet know you are in safe hands. His latest, Kings...
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