January 26, 2010
A director’s singular vision and quest for filmmaking without limits.
The upcoming Criterion release of Steven Soderbergh’s “Che” has a
brilliant little featurette in the disc that talks about the Red One
camera, and how digital cinema affected the production of this film. If
you aren’t familiar with the story, Soderbergh basically took the Red
One camera’s digital promise on faith, and was the first to use the
system in a true production environment, and a very rough one at that.
“Che” was shot on-location in the damp jungle and in extremely hot
conditions. Essentially a trial by fire situation for a camera that was
largely untested for real production.
Click provideocoalition.com for the whole story.
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