John Cassavetes

How Much HD Do We Need?

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How Much HD Do We Need?

  Over the past few months, since the announcements of the new RED Epic and Scarlet and the Canon C300digital cinema cameras, and now with all the buzz about the 2K Digital Bolex, various people have asked me (and this is an amalgam of these conversations): “So, Mike, which one are you going to get? The Canon or the RED Scarlet?” “Neither. I’m sticking with my Canon 7D?” “Huh? But don’t you want the raw 4:4:4 files?” “What for?” “So your picture looks great up on a big screen.” “Nobody’s going to be throwing my films up on the...

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John Cassavetes Making “Husbands” – A Rare Insight

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John Cassavetes Making “Husbands” – A Rare Insight

Years ago PBS’ American Masters broadcast a 90-minute profile on John Cassavetes. To be honest, I’d grown up reading about the importance of Cassavetes and how critics raved about his films. My first Cassavetes movie was Husbands, which CBS ran in their early days of late-night programming. I hated it. This was not filmmaking to me at that time. This was just turning on the camera and rolling. There was no story and no drama. It was just filling time. Keep in mind, I was still a teenager at the time. A few years later A Woman Under The...

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