Millimeter November/December 2007
By Michael Goldman
As he releases his dark character study about the rise and fall of a turn-of-the-century oil baron, Director Paul Thomas Anderson proudly touts his strict adherence to traditional filmmaking techniques while making Paramount Vantage's There Will Be Blood
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By Ellen Wolff
"A lot of technology had to be created in advance." This comment from Jerome Chen, the senior visual effects supervisor on Paramount Pictures' Beowulf...
By Dan Daley
There's a lot more to the audio for Charlie Wilson's War than meets the ear. The Mike Nichols-directed film about America's first experience with Afghanistan was penned by Aaron Sorkin, whose rapid-fire dialogue style, honed on his television hit The West Wing, is reprised — and then some — in the film...
By Michael Goldman
Visual effects guru Richard Edlund says his second collaboration with director Mike Nichols on Universal Pictures' Charlie Wilson's War had a “much different gestalt” than their first gig together, on HBO's Angels in America in 2003...
By Darroch Greer
When we last covered the Environmental Media Association, Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim's film, An Inconvenient Truth had just been released...
By Trevor Boyer
In attempting to list the most groundbreaking products released in the calendar year 2007, millimeter's editors faced an abundance of choices...
By Cynthia Wisehart
So Far, the Web has Been far More Restrained Than TV about invoking the feeling of The Colosseum...
By Ellen Wolff
The Rashomon-styled structure of Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point required Director Pete Travis to depict a tumultuous political rally from the points...
By Barry Braverman
In the world of high-end HD production, shooters have a new choice: The Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 is offering performance and dazzling specs at a knockout...
By Bert Dunk, ASC, CSC
I've been working in Hollywood as a cinematographer since the early 1990s, serving as DP on such films as Rich Men, Single Women (1990), Flashfire (1993), and The Inspectors (1998), as well as numerous other projects for television. In 2000, I worked with Director Robert Wise on A Storm in Summer, based on Rod Serling's 1970 teleplay, and in 2002, I shot the crime drama Street Time, for which I was nominated for Best Cinematography in a TV Series by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers...
By Dan Ochiva
With the pending release of the 4K-data-mode Red One from Red Digital Cinema, high-resolution production on the road looks to be picking up steam...
By Dan Ochiva
If you're one of those facilities that rely on Panasonic's D-5 HD VTR for mastering, you might be interested in the company's recently announced AJ-HDP2000...
By Dan Ochiva
A new direct-connect PCIe bus architecture received final approval only this past summer...
By Dan Ochiva
Sharing media across facilities turns out to be a big theme of the 2008 releases of Autodesk's lineup (Inferno, Flame, and Flint for visual effects; Fire and Smoke to handle editing and finishing)...
By Dan Ochiva
Pixar has been at the forefront of numerous technical breakthroughs, but with most of the innovations kept inhouse...
By Dan Ochiva
In applications that include rendering, new quad-core AMD Opteron-based workstations provide a near-linear improvement compared to the dual-core version, according to Boxx Technologies...
By Dan Ochiva
Magic Bullet Editors and Magic Bullet Suite from Red Giant Software have become popular apps that offer a lower cost but an effective group of color-tweaking features...
By Dan Ochiva
At October's Storage Networking World conference in Dallas, Atto Technology presented the latest updates to its ExpressSAS SAS/SATA RAID adapters and FastStream virtual tape (VT) appliance....
By Dan Ochiva
In the post industry, you're sometimes as good as the friends you keep — or the support you offer...
By Dan Ochiva
For the past four years, S.two has made its mark making high-resolution production and post recording gear....
By Dan Ochiva
Whether you're importing or outputting, who doesn't want more resolution? That seems to be Imagica's position — it introduced its Imager HSX-8K film scanner at this year's IBC...
By Dan Ochiva
Making the move to 3D for DI post, Assimilate recently demo'd a stereoscopic 3D workflow available in the new Scratch V3.5...
By Darroch Greer
Jean-dominique Bauby, the Editor of French Elle, had a Massive Stroke in 1995 that left him completely and permanently paralyzed...
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Old-Fashioned Filmmaking 
Animated Performance 
Wartime Ambience 
Enabling Mike Nichols 
Awarding Awareness 
Millimeter Vanguard Awards 2007 
Step By Step: Vantage Point 
Review: Panasonic AJ-HPX3000
Beta Sight: Iconix HD-RH1 
Fade to Black: Julian Schnabel, Director