Devan Scott

From the Jafar Panahi talk at Berlinale.

To the Texans here:

My jaw was on the floor by about the third answer and it was all downhill from there. Stunning stuff.

omg

Oh yes. It's concerning.

Let's just say #general has been active this morning.

Happy birthday to the best to ever do it.

Told ya so

My copy of @bcwallin.com's monograph - featuring an essay about Danny Boyle's use of digital formats by yours truly - arrived today. Very excited to see it released tomorrow.

Impeccable taste in special features, too. Featuring former Lubitsch podcast guests @dcairns.bsky.social and Scott Eyman.

Hell yeah.

Nothing will ever convince me this stuff isn't intentional rage bait.

TWIN PEAKS: THE MISSING PIECES scene with Bobby and Laura (Starting Image)

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME scene with Bobby and Laura (Reference Image)

TWIN PEAKS: THE MISSING PIECES scene with Bobby and Laura (Recolored and Reintegrated Image)

The most time-consuming part of my TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME edit combining it with THE MISSING PIECES is easily recolouring those deleted scenes to match FWWM.

Despite being widely recognized as canonical and essential, THE MISSING PIECES was very obviously not given much of a colour grade.

May have gone too far in a few places.

Bastardized Anthony Mann's REIGN OF TERROR today.

YouTube video by Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966) Arrow Video 4K UHD and Blu-ray Review: A Staggering Achievement

The best in the business (@damnfoolcrusade.bsky.social) reviews the most exciting home video release of the year.

YouTube video by Devan Scott The Early Years, Part 3 (Excerpt): The Good The Bad and the Ugly in a High School Cafe

I don't know of any *shot* on VHS, but I once recreated the Techniscope duel from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly on original-type MiniDV tape back in like 2004: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmuU...

YouTube video by Devan Scott Calibration Day

Calibration day is an overwhelming time at the studio.

(Not that humans aren't totally capable of confidently spouting misinformation... Indiewire included.)

Love that the world's leading search engine confidently spouts absolute misinformation instead of actual results when you type in "What was THE MASTERMIND shot on".

Life knows no period so stress-free as that which occurs between hitting "Schedule Send" late at night and 8am the next morning. All the satisfaction of Dealing With The Thing and none of the consequences.

It's my fantasy world, I get to determine the terms. If I say people can fly to my Napoleon IMAX screening in jetpacks, so be it.

YouTube video by Be Kind Rewind The Wizard of Oz at Sphere Is Nightmare Fuel

I'm a pretty tough and grumpy mark for this type of YouTube cultural criticism video essay, but this is legitimately a really good rundown of the implications of the Oz Sphere monstrosity for film restoration and the future of cinema as communal art/entertainment.

My take on the Optic/Haptic vid is: It tries to develop a unifying theory on a broad thesis with a shaky premise (“Why don’t movies look realistic anymore?”) and inevitably winds up with a mess of cherry-picking, self-contradictions, specious reasoning, along with a lot of individually good points.

What a motion picture!

Not to mention the day-for-night (I refrained from doing any exposure correction - orthochromatic day-for-night ought not to be fought against!).

Some real benefits in terms of montage and geographic/spatial legibility here. Assigning colors to specific spaces does wonders for parallel structure...

Well, I finally found time to speculatively tint Lubitsch's THE OYSTER PRINCESS (1919).

Oh! The trailer has tinted stuff! Terrific.