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Tree of Life-stunning!

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Saw the trailer for Terence Malick's new film 'Tree of Life', absolutely stunning cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, The New World)

Catch the trailer if you haven't already!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLPe0fHuZsc
 
just googled
http://goo.gl/qiYiL
'use of both 35mm and the digital RED One camera, with the present day sequences shot with the RED and the past sequences shot in 35.'
 
Wow. Yeah I watched this trailer not too long ago, looks pretty incredible. I didn't realize it was partially shot on RED! Awesome!


David Ives
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www.redfilm.us
 
I agree the cinematography is gorgeous, and should be applauded. As a film overall, somehow this hasn't really captured my attention to be quite honest. Emmanuel Lubezki is the reason I am interested in seeing this, not Terrence Mallick, coming from someone who has watched many of his films.
 
James B. said:
just googled
http://goo.gl/qiYiL
'use of both 35mm and the digital RED One camera, with the present day sequences shot with the RED and the past sequences shot in 35.'
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I don't think this is true. This article is back in 2009. I think they did some Red tests but ended up shooting everything in 35. Although I think that it has been confirmed that Malick is using Red for his next project.
 
i was on the crew and my camera red one #0031 shot for 3 weeks on this movie and a few pick up days long after wrap of PP.

it is VERY True, I spoke about it on many posts over the years since we shot this.

...and shot red on new project too...

dino
 
dino g said:
i was on the crew and my camera red one #0031 shot for 3 weeks on this movie and a few pick up days long after wrap of PP.

it is VERY True, I spoke about it on many posts over the years since we shot this.

...and shot red on new project too...

dino
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Dino, do you know if any of the Red material made it into the final cut of the Tree of Life?
 
I'm going to see this in a couple days here in The Berkshires, Mass. There is a special screening of it for the Berkshire International Film Festival. Really looking forward to it!
 
This was actually the best film i 've for a long time.It was a visual experience.I don't think much stuff was shot on red though.Which really doesn't matter.The cinematography was stellar.Best Mallick film so far for me.
 
I'd guess that 95% of the movie was shot on 35mm, not counting the purely visual effects sequences. That's just a guess though. There was a night shot of modern city traffic early on that looked digital, there were some stand-alone nature shots that could have been shot on the Red One (like the sunflowers in the field, the waterfall maybe), the background plates for the dinosaur sequence looked like a digital camera was used, and I'm sure some other scattered shots here and there were shot digitally (maybe the shot of the bridge at the end), but the bulk of the movie had the same look in terms of dynamic range and grain, and I suspect all that was 35mm, even scenes with Sean Penn. I talked to some Texas crew members who worked on the film and they said that both the Red One and 35mm were used, but mostly the 35mm cameras.

I saw the movie projected digitally at the Landmark in the Westside Pavilion, which was nice because they mostly project film prints there, but have a Sony 4K projector in Theater 1. I'm used to DLP projection, so at first had to get used to the weaker black levels of the Sony projector, but otherwise, it was a very smooth and sharp image. I don't think they used a 4K DCP however, probably 2K.

It's an amazing cinematic experience, to be sure, reminded me of "2001" at times. However, I have to admit that I found the ending less moving than similar endings in movies like "8 1/2" (if you've seen both movies, you know the type of scene I'm talking about.)
 
David Mullen ASC said:
It's an amazing cinematic experience, to be sure, reminded me of "2001" at times.
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Maybe because Doug Trumbull helped with the visual effects. Doing it the old fashioned way without CGI.

There is also going to be a screening of "Brainstorm" at the Trumbull tribute event. Can't wait!
 
I was involved with Tree for the past three years (I shot VFX plates on my RED and my wife was the post-production coordinator). I can honestly tell you that neither of us were prepared for the overwhelming power of this movie. Although I understand the comparisons to 2001, I consider Kubrick's film to be an intellectual masterpiece, whereas Tree is a spiritual and emotional one. As mainstream cinema transforms into a mindless assembly line of action figure commercials, The Tree of Life was for me a ray of light piercing an otherwise gloomy horizon. Not everyone at the screening had the same reaction. Mine was an intensely personal experience. But I do think the majority of viewers could sense they were witnessing something truly unique, a film that nobody else on earth could have made, and we all found that very inspiring.
 
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Julio. I am hoping to see it soon.
 
I don't see the resemblance.It reminded me more of ''Stalker'' and Tarkovskiy's poetic universe.But I think his influences are not from within the cinema as they are from other visual arts and from literature.At the end i was left with this feeling i have when i finish a book.
 
I'm finally seeing it tomorrow evening!
 
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