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Author Topic: MGM keeps dithering about Michael Moore Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2002 03:09 PM                     Found inside the Bowling For Columbine film cans. quote: Post Production Department Memo MGM Important note regarding "Bowling For Columbine" prints. The movie was made in a "Documentary" style which means it contains scenes that were filmed using both video and film cameras. Several scenes in the movie may appear soft in focus, the color may not look good, and shots may be overexposed. This is not a defect and is the intended effect of the director of the movie. Thank you for your co-operation. MGM Studios MGM dithered as to release this film. Now that they have, they are worried about what people will think of the look. Heck, Michael Moore took half these images off of his TV set! Well it was nice to get a heads up in the can.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-25-2002 03:24 PM                     I ran a screening of "Bowling For Columbine" for Harvey Weinstein and Michael Moore. Just before Cannes. Miramax passed on the film. Before the screening Moore's group had me run the first three reels. To see how it looked and sounded before Harvey got to the room. They started the screening at 10pm on a Sunday night.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2002 03:54 PM                     Michael Moore ran his film for the staff of the Telluride Film Festival. We enjoyed the film and we saw nothing wrong with the look of the film. It looks just fine for what it is. We also thought that it was a good treatment of vioence in America.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 10-25-2002 04:46 PM                     You are right Ian , I found nothing wrong with it. I have enjoyed his other films too.  |  IP: Logged Rick Long Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 759 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-25-2002 11:11 PM                     We screened it at the Toronto International Film Festival. It looked like exactly what it was, a documentary. Enjoyed it very much.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 10-26-2002 12:39 AM                        As I said in "movie reviews" I though this was a great film. I think that this is one case where the use of video, and film actually made it a better film.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-26-2002 11:35 AM                     Didn't the documentary "Trekkies" (came out same time as Episode 1) use a combination of film and video? (video for the interview sequences, film of course for the clips of the movies/shows) Although only 6-10 people showed up for that film, the combination of formats didn't look bad at all. It also seemed that the titles and graphics were added to the finished film, rather than them being on the video and transferred to film. Can't wait to see Bowling for Columbine! =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-26-2002 11:48 AM                        Trekkies was shot in 16mm and was a very nice blowup. Most of Bowling for Columbine looks like a really big screen TV (which is not a compliment!), although video and 16mm tend to be more acceptible in documentaries than features.  |  IP: Logged Brad Haven Master Film Handler Posts: 300 From: fremantle, West Australia Registered: Aug 2001 posted 10-26-2002 12:00 PM                     When i saw this film, i was enjoying it too much to be thinking about the quality of the images.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-27-2002 03:15 PM                        Was there anything in the cans of BLAIR WITCH PROJECT giving anyone a heads up to warn that the film was going to looked like a big lump of dog-doo on the screen? Or CHELSEA WALLS or EPISODE 2? If they started doing that, the distribs would have to order additional reams of stationary.  |  IP: Logged

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