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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 12h

/r/colorgrading in a nutshell

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 21h

Revisited Heaven's Gate for the first time in a couple of decades.

A ★★★½ review of Heaven's Gate (1980)

Criterion Director's Cut • I last saw the director's cut pre-Criterion release back in the late 2000s. At the time, it was a real personal revelation: one of the most reviled movies ever made is great...

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 5d

I strangely forgive that movie for it, but yeah: I always find it a bit puzzling that high-budget productions don't do basic masks/mattes or whatever. It's not exactly a huge technical hurdle to hide the clear signs of digital projection.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 5d

[Worth noting, too, that this is a high-budget Disney-funded miniseries!]

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 5d

You can see the dang pixelation/screen door effect in the inserts!

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 5d

It will never not bug me when I see period pieces not even bother to hide the fact that they're using digital projectors to double for film projectors.

See THE BRESLAU MURDERS, in which they use a modern 1.78:1 screen and projector and don't even bother to matte off the black padding.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 8d

Used this as an opportunity to write a piece I had been longing to find an excuse to write for years and years: a brief history of Danny Boyle's use of digital cinematography. Out soon!

B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 10d

Some personal news 📚

10 years ago today, Steve Jobs (2015) was released. This year, I am launching a book: a work of 8 writers, analyzing it piece by piece, to appreciate the film as greater than the sum of its parts.

Sign up is now open to find out when you can own a copy of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH.

STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH

B.C. Wallin on Production
Aashima Rawal on Jobs
Kat Trout-Baron on Sorkin
Scout Tafoya on Boyle
Devan Scott on Camera
Sarah Jae Leiber on Performance
Charlie Brigden on Music
Alexander B. Joy on Edit

Coming Soon

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 8d

A review of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)

• It's less that there are two wolves wrestling inside me on this and more of a free-for-all melee. I'm completely unable to see straight on this for a dozen* reasons, and it's less that I'm inclined ...

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 10d

Some personal news 📚

10 years ago today, Steve Jobs (2015) was released. This year, I am launching a book: a work of 8 writers, analyzing it piece by piece, to appreciate the film as greater than the sum of its parts.

Sign up is now open to find out when you can own a copy of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 23d

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 23d

A shot I stole while interviewing Frederick Elmes for
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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 29d

Rewatching THE PHANTOM THREAD and I *knew* I recognized that hotel.

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · Oct 2

I liked it

A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)

1.9:1 Digital "iMax" Presentation • That one car chase scene must represent the most inspired use of telephoto lenses since Tomas Alfredson got Hoyte van Hoytema to point a 2000mm lens down an airport...

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'll be hosting a talk with cinematographer Frederick Elmes (BLUE VELVET / WILD AT HEART / ERASERHEAD / HULK / PATERSON / FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, among many others) at VIFF on October 8th!

Frederick Elmes on Four Decades of Cinematic Collaboration | VIFF Talk

Legendary cinematographer Frederick Elmes has spent decades helping to define the visual language of directors like David Lynch and Jim Jarmusch. Don't miss this opportunity to hear about the cra...

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · Sep 2

I have been alerted to the fact that this is currently what emerges when you Google the lyrics to 'Born to Run'.

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Willa Harlow Ross @willaharlowross.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thinking about the common response media criticism that "art's effect on the audience is subjective and down to individual preference".

It tends to be a means of arguing that we shouldn't make declaratives saying people who like something or wrong or that less work like it should be made. thread 🧵

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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · Aug 24

The exterior wide shots - my single favourite element - are these bizarre blends of extremely early cinema techniques and cutting-edge digital composites.