Directors losing their sheen going digital?

in #movies3 years ago

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I think everybody knows my personal views about digital movie making and photography.

The thing is, there are people who have embraced digital movie making and haven't lost a step. Roger Deakins has done some of his best work with the ALEXA, same with Lubezki. David Fincher has made some undeniable classics on digital; though, I'll always think that Se7en and Fight Club are his true visual masterpieces.

That said, it seems clear that there are people who forgot how to make movies the moment they picked up a digital camera. Michael Mann was among my favorite directors and he hasn't made a good movie since Collateral, which was still shot on film with a few digital sequences. Miami Vice looked worse than a lot of student films.

Mann's long time cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, seemed to have forgotten how to light the moment he went digital. How does the guy who shot Heat and The Insider also have Public Enemy on his filmography?

When was the last time you saw a great movie from Robert Zemeckis or Francis Ford Coppola?

No, correlation is not causation; but, there's a pretty clear correlation here.