Millimeter January/February 2008
By Michael Goldman
In 1997, millimeter Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner respectfully accused director Errol Morris of “transgressing the canons of documentary dogma” while writing about Morris’ then-new documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control...
By Michael Goldman
Director Michel Gondry certainly maintained his reputation for offbeat filmmaking with Be Kind, Rewind, which recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival...
By Ellen Wolff
The poster for Paramount Pictures' Cloverfield depicts the Statue of Liberty standing headless, following a monster's attack on New York City...
By Darroch Greer
Communists are making good villains again. Former communist countries and satellites provide both settings and breeding grounds for some of the most potent...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Every year at Sundance one thing is the same, only more so: The working people get squeezed by the rings of concentric irrelevance that orbit the festival...
By Ellen Wolff
A photoreal polar bear wearing elaborate armor is a signature image in director Chris Weitz's fantasy film for New Line Cinema, The Golden Compass (recently...
By Dermot Shane
My Theory is that the Best DI is not Always the One with the $250,000 machines in $1-million rooms (and $4,000-per-day rates)...
By Phil Wortas, Director of IT, Creative Group
Driven by increasing demand for HD production for ESPN, we at Creative Group recently upgraded our storage infrastructure to keep up...
By Dan Ochiva
The Sony F23 CineAlta camcorder (pictured) came to market last year driven in part by Band Pro Film & Digital's commitment to buy 100 units of the top-of-the-line HD camera...
By Dan Ochiva
Housekeeping chores for disk management can chew in to scheduled work sessions. With its support for Bright Systems' recently released BrightClip data-recording technology, Da Vinci Systems general manager Bill Robertson says there will be dramatic benefits in collaborative digital postproduction workflows...
By Dan Ochiva
Band Pro Film & Digital announced it was buying a small startup operation that will supply the company with custom accessory-mounting gear, initially for the Sony F23 CineAlta line...
By Dan Ochiva
Graphics-tablet manufacturer Wacom expands its interactive Cintiq line with the 12WX, which features a 12.1in. TFT display. It's the first of the company's pen-on-screen products that breaks the four-figure mark (just, at $999)...
By Dan Ochiva
Panasonic sticks with an ENG-style body to deliver the AJ-HPX3000, the first (both for the company and the industry) 1080p one-piece camcorder. Using the new AVC-Intra codec helps the company pull off the compression needed to record a full-HD raster (1920×1080 resolution) image at 4:2:2 and 10-bit depth...
By Dan Ochiva
K-Tek makes simple and sturdy boom gear. Its popular Avalon Traveler boom pole now comes in a lighter-weight, carbon-fiber version...
By Dan Ochiva
When Kodak bothers to change to a new version — or Vision number, in Rochester-speak — you know the company feels it must have something special...
By Dan Ochiva
Litepanels has won a following for its innovative LED lighting systems. Now a new DMX Interface Module allows any Litepanels fixture to be added to a DMX lighting-control board...
By Dan Ochiva
RAID arrays are a given for high-end production. Meanwhile, SATA drives have become favored for their price/performance ratio. Sonnet Technologies brings these together with the release of its eight-drive Fusion R800RAID...
By Dan Ochiva
No, that's not a thought from last night's dream. Nirvanix has built a business around its Internet-mounted Storage Delivery Service, which delivers on this promise...
By Dan Ochiva
By introducing a “Red Set” of its S4/i lenses for the Red Digital Cinema Red One camera, Cooke Optics adds some high-end gloss to the newbie system...
By Dan Ochiva
Hard drive sizes increase constantly. The electronics and firmware have to keep up to date, too...
By Darroch Greer
Charles Ferguson is the director of the Oscar-nominated No End in Sight — the trenchant, definitive documentary on the run up to the war in Iraq and the mishandling of its aftermath by the Bush Administration...
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The Morris Microscope 
Junkyard Filmmaking
Monstrous Task
Foreign Realism
Step by Step: The Golden Compass 
Beta Sight: Avid DS Assist Station 
Beta Sight: Autodesk Discreet-friendly Storage System 
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