”Leica cine lens saga”
I en reprint har Jon Fauer, ASC, samlat det material som tidigare varit publicerat i Film and Digital Times. Här kan man nu samlat läsa om berättelsen om hur Leica Summilux-C blev till. Så här skriver Jon Fauer:
” Background on the development, from 2005, of the new line of Leica PL mount Cine Lenses. With information on the individuals involved: Dr. Andreas Kaufmann, Christian Skrein, Otto Nemenz, Iain Neil, Band Pro, Alfred Schopf, and Erik Feichtinger. Interview with Christian Skrein and an in-depth discussion with prominent optical designer Iain Neil.”
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Lisabi Fridell FSF awarded the Guldbagge award for best cinematography
Her work on “Crossing” (Passage), directed by Levan Akin, earned her the award. The film also received awards for best film and best director. This is Lisabis’s second time receiving the award, having also received it for her cinematography on “And Then We Danced” in 2020.
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Professors Day at Pinewood Studios
”I hear you paint houses!”
I was reminded of that famous line from Martin Scorsese’s ”The Irishman”, when SONY representative Daniel Listh told me at Camerimage recently ”We’ve heard you also teach cinematography”.
And when I confirmed that he was indeed right about that, he offered ”so we’d like to invite you a few weeks from now to our Digital Production Centre at Pinewood Studios, if the dates work with your other commitments”. Of Course I was thrilled to hear this, and asked if it’d be okay to bring along a colleague and fellow FSF Board member, and yes that was fine. SONY has the Bucks. 🙂
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Camerimage 2024
It can’t have escaped many that the 32nd edition of the Camerimage Film Festival, held recently in the picturesque little medieval city of Torun in Poland, has been accompanied by considerable controversy. Some high-profile ”no-shows”, like director Steve mcQueen and his DP Yorick Le Saux deciding not to attend the festival even though their historical war drama ”Blitz” was the festival’s opening feature, and similarly the director-cinematographer team of Coralie Fargeat and Benjamin Kračun pulling their film ”The Substance” out of the competition, put something of a dent in the festival.
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