I needed this list and really appreciate everyone putting it together (so damn quickly too). I place it here assuming others too will need it.
Antichrist
Bronson
Butterfly Effect 3
Che
Crooked Lane
District 9
Easier With Practice
The Exploding Girl
The Girlfriend Experience
The Informant!
The Knowing
Life During Wartime
The Red Riding Trilogy 1983*
The Social Network
Van Diemen's Land
It's sort of interesting how widely diverse the films are both in terms of content and in terms of budget.
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The last two movies I cut were shot on the Red, and I'll leave the discussions about quality of the image, etc., for others to talk about, but from a purely post-production standpoint I *love* the Red. I love that because it's file-based, the tape deck is removed from the workflow, and that in the edit room we can control not only the quality of the transcoded image that we edit with, but also that we do it ourselves, and don't have to wait for some post house or lab to do it for us. I also love that we have the camera original "negative" file at our fingertips in case we have to have a visual effect done somewhere; we can just send the effects house that file instead of having to have the lab scan that shot from the negative, which is time and money.
Interesting post... I can see that you put a lot of hard work on your blog. I'm sure I'd visit here more often. George from romantic films.
File-based is so much easier to shoot and cut. I also love the convenience of "negative" access and the removal of middle man costs.
The ongoing democratization of the process (via technology) is creating a brave new world in which true filmmakers (people who'd make films whether they were paid for it or not) can prosper.
The decline of traditional distribution simply strengthens the new models and puts the process back into the hands of the originators. That can only be a good thing.
Great list, Ted. Was blown away by look of ANTI-CHRIST, BRONSON, DISTRICT 9 and VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. CROOKED LANE trailer looks great, too. And dying to see what Lubezki does with Malick's TREE OF LIFE.
Currently shooting feature myself on Sony EX1 and I'm very happy with the results so far. If you treat the process with the care of film shooting, you get the results.
Just to clarify, Ted, only Red Riding 1983 was shot on the Red. Red Riding 1974 and Red Riding 1980 were shot on 16mm and 35mm, respectively.
The Girlfriend Experience, a good looking film? Wha? Visually incoherent...and does he really expect people to believe that he only "lit" one scene and "regretted it?" Films like this only propagate destructive mythology for young filmmakers while aggrandizing the image of those who've "made it," decidedly old-world film business.
I believe Life During Wartime, Todd Solondz's film was shot on the RED by Ed Lachman.
I removed "Tree Of Life" from the list as I was told that only a tiny portion of that film has been shot on the Red.
Our film "How I Got Lost" was shot on the RED. While we didn't find it as versatile as many folks make it out to be (including Soderbergh, who we nonetheless admire), we really found satisfying images with it.
www.apple.com/trailers/independent/howigotlost/
How expensive is it to shoot on RED?
Hey, Ted--
Interesting to see Butterfly Effect 3 on this list, since it seems to be much more of a genre picture than many of the other choices. I'll let my pal Dan Stoloff, who shot it, know the good news.
See you in a few hours...
Having a good looking MOVIE shot on the red has more to do with lighting and set design and less to do with digital aquisition. I've seen good movies shot on a variety of video formats and tell you a good engaging story always trumps technology. One question, why do we continue to call these films? What's the matter with VIDEO!
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many of the "bad guy" scenes in A PERFECT GETAWAY were shot on Red. i didn't see the finished film and can't say what percentage of the final product was shot on Red.
Don't know if you've seen this. Byron Shah (DP for THE GO-GETTER) shot this great camera test of RED and 2 new prosumer cameras. With caveats noted, the results are surprising.
http://bit.ly/8DEZRg
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