The film brings out the full flair of the seventies, including high contrast,
high grain film stock, great costumery and set direction, and a fantastic soundtrack.
Not exact matches
DI - NOC Architectural Finishes — these
high quality self - adhesive laminate
films are available in wood
grain, stone, metal, marble, leather, stone and stucco, as well as brushed metals and carbon fibre effects.
The most significant results were related to: i) the effect of vicinal surfaces on the
film growth; ii) the
films specifically grown for microwave applications: a clear correlation was demonstrated between the surface resistance, the losses and the concentration of
high - angle
grain boundaries; iii) the effect of
film - substrate interdiffusion and its control by epitaxial buffer layer.
In addition to melding conventional setups with
high grain inserts and smash zooms that tell the ninety - seven year history of motion pictures (using, ironically, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation as the starting point), Mr. Tarantino remains faithful to the medium of
film.
THE DVD One of six
films that won the second round of Amazon's DVD Decision 2006, Looker debuts on the format in a handsome 2.37:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that occasionally succumbs to pinholes and a
high density of
grain.
I'm not as
high on the musical as some are, so I'm keeping a contender from the
film a bit lower than most, so perhaps take this with a
grain of salt?
It appears organic and
film - like with mostly even
grain levels and a
high amount of fine detail in both close - ups and wide shots.
As it stands, the 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital
High Definition image looks fine throughout, shot with remarkable form by Anderson as an uncredited Director of Photography, his use of the
grain in the advanced Kodak Vision 3 35 mm camera negative
film stocks is superior and impresses throughout as it usually does in all of his
films.
It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the
film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the
high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are...
Film grain, a bedbug of certain
high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those
films that thoroughly vindicates something
film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The
grain is the picture.»
Two of his earlier
films, Games of Love and Chance (2003) and The Secret of the
Grain (2007), had won French cinema's
highest award, the César, for best
film, best director, and best screenplay.
Although similar in subject matter to other documentary photographers such as Diane Arbus and Saul Leiter, as well as fashion photographers Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, Klein's images broke away from established modes through his use of
high -
grain film and wide angles to create his often out - of - focus black - and - white prints.