Slashdot Mirror
Repo Man Director Alex Cox Plans To Edit Next Film With OpenShot
New submitter JonOomph writes "Director Alex Cox, the creator of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, is making plans via Kickstarter for his next film, Bill, the Galactic Hero, a feature-length science fiction comedy set in the far reaches of our galaxy. He is challenging the norm by shooting the film on 35mm monochrome (black and white) film, possibly the last film to ever attempt this, and possibly the first feature film to be edited with popular open source video editor OpenShot." If you don't like spoilers, I suggest reading this short but fascinating piece on Repo Man (one of my all-time favorite movies) only after watching it.
It's probably not the last B&W since the tone range on modern monochrome film is huge, so some stuff looks very good, so long as you have a real 35mm projector. Converted to digital you lose a lot of range so something that looks good on film may just look like mud on a TV or digital projector.
which means the number of places you could see this will be limited
Just because it's being shot on film, that doesn't mean it won't be a digital end product.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
No, because he made sure to point out the fact that he was shooting the whole thing in 35mm monochrome, before converting it to digital. Ignoring the fact that the claimed advantages of analog film are dubious at this point anyway, any perceived advantage would be lost in the transfer. This is nothing but PR fluff, and all the retro hipsters are going to eat it up. It's like those idiots who think vinyl is better than CD.
You'll still have more range and depth than you would with shooting on color film stock and desaturating during the editing process, or shooting digital B&W.
Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, and whoever played Miller were perfect. Olivia Barash and Agent Rogersz were supposed to be ridiculous. Everyone else was an extra.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky