By simply opening the window, Smith has created a fresh, new landscape, a series of dramatic,
desaturated images amplified through movement of air currents and rays of streaming light.
THE BLU - RAY DISC The 1080p transfer on the IFC Films Blu - ray Disc of the Red Riding trilogy verges on excellent: faithfully reproducing the chunky 16 mm grain and aggressively manipulated colour schemes of 1974; conveying the finer grain structure of 1980, with its palette of muted blues and oranges; and rendering the almost noiseless, largely
desaturated images from the Red One camera used on 1983 with a spooky clarity.
Not exact matches
«Cool, clean, and precise» is how the festival guide describes it, presumably referring to the movie's severely
desaturated tungsten palette, absence of detail, and the fact that it contains precisely one memorable
image, a wide shot of the heroine walking home past a decrepit MiG - 15 monument.
Outside of Genndy Tartakovsky's splashy animated sequence, the
image is fashionably
desaturated and drained of colour from the red end of the spectrum especially (the crimson Screen Gems logo is here metallic blue), but within its mostly - teal palette there's an impressive dynamic range.
The
image is perhaps a teensy bit soft by contemporary standards, but certainly the BD outclasses cable when it comes to reproducing the movie's lush colour palette, which runs the gamut between the straight - up surf - and - sun glow of the early scenes on Fire Island and a cooler,
desaturated look in the film's latter half.
As in theaters, the
image puts forward a
desaturated color scheme and light film grain but a sharp clarity and intimate texture.
Colors are
desaturated just a bit, which adds a coolness to the
image, and yet most of the hues that have been
desaturated were warm to start — browns, greens, golds, yellows.
Further, because of its
desaturating capabilities, the
image they would see would be painterly (in the style, Gilpin claimed, of 17th century landscape painter Claude Lorrain), i.e. muted and misty.
There is strong color shading (inconsistency of color across the
image) in all lighting conditions, and colors also tend to be
desaturated.