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By Craig Erpelding

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It's no secret that today's shooter manages an ever-increasing glut of HD frame rates and resolutions....

Clint Eastwood Investigates HD 

By Michael Goldman

As he began preparations to make back-to-back films about the historic World War II battle for Iwo Jima—Flags of our Fathers and the upcoming Letters from Iwo Jima—director Clint Eastwood reports that he seriously investigated using high-definition cameras to make the movies. Eastwood had DP Tom Stern’s camera team and HD camera operator Liz Radley conduct a series of tests to compare footage from various HD camera systems with 35mm film footage....

Extreme Hours 

By Marsha Scarbrough

Most film production professionals have stories about working extreme hours. I personally tell tales of a rainy all-nighter in Texas where the crew went...

Dream Job: For Artists, By Artists 

By Kristinha M. Anding

Michael Masucci feels an acute sense of responsibility to his fellow artists. It's this social consciousness that propelled the former New Yorker, high-end...

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Scorsese: Gangster Style 

By Michael Goldman

Like many intense relationships, Martin Scorsese's love affair with what he fondly calls gangster pictures never quite ends. Occasionally, he moves into...

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By Darroch Greer

There is not another film like it anywhere in creation, and if you missed the proto-punk days of the mid-'70s, when glam rock turned incendiary, you can...

Have Server, Will Travel 

By Michael Goldman

Independent filmmaker Lance Weiler known as something of a self-styled technical iconoclast adopted a guerrilla approach to both making Head Trauma and...

Single File 3D 

By Michael Goldman

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Mark In 

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