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"Barry Lyndon" (1975) - the famous Candle Scene
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Posted on 12/22/2022 3:38:52 PM PST by simpson96

When he made Barry Lyndon in 1975, Kubrick shot with two ultra-rare Carl Zeiss prime lenses, which had been created for NASA for use in the Apollo space program and were modified for Kubrick to use with a Mitchell BNC camera (which was also specially modified to accept the lenses).

Also...

The first film to understand 18th century cosmetics (and earlier ages, too) - and how the face would just recede in candlelight without white lead (ceruse), rouge, beauty spots, mouse skin eyebrows and the like. A non-made up face, for men and women, and you would simply not appear present in a room so poorly lit. As much as I love Dangerous Liaisons and Amadeus, they could not convey the artificiality of people’s faces at that time, purely because the interior scenes they showed were far more brightly lit than they would have been.


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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: afficionados; makeup; moviebuffs; photography
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To: Wilhelm Tell

I remember the Mad Magazine parody “The Poop-Side Down Adventure.” I thought it was hilarious. And I’ve, to this day, never seen the actual Poseidon Adventure movie.


21 posted on 12/22/2022 5:47:26 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: John Milner

That movie (Poseidon) was so blaringly popular, I vowed that I would never pay to see it.
I’m the type, where, if 9/10ths of everybody is shouting how wonderful some popular entertainment is, I don’t make plans to watch it, at least not for a few years.
Vestiges of the contrarian or rebel in me who doesn’t want to conform. I never watched a full episode of Friends while they were on either.


22 posted on 12/22/2022 6:01:27 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Steely Tom

noticed that too. very cool.


23 posted on 12/22/2022 6:11:37 PM PST by drwoof
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To: simpson96

I lucked into seeing a 35mm print at Yale (which they acquired) a few years back, and it was breathtaking. This scene especially. Unmatched clarity and depth of shadow and color. These 35mm showings should be a regular occurance.


24 posted on 12/22/2022 6:17:43 PM PST by montag813
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To: lee martell

I saw this movie back when it was first released!

Years later I was watching the Sylvester Stallone movie DAYLIGHT(1996)

I suddenly realized who was going to be killed off next and how it would be done, It was just a rewrite of The Poseidon Adventure under the New York harbor.


25 posted on 12/22/2022 6:32:38 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember a parody, “Butch Casualty and the Sum Dunce Kid”. I don’t remember if it was MAD, CRACKED or SICK magazine.

Yes, it was MAD. I was 19 at the time and still buying a copy each month as I thought it was so funny. Do you remember from the same year, "True Fat" a satire of John Wayne in True Grit?

26 posted on 12/22/2022 8:12:51 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: simpson96

Now I understand the look of the portraits of the times before photography.


27 posted on 12/22/2022 9:17:08 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: simpson96

Today your cellphone can record in the dark using just the ambient light. I also have a Wyze security camera that can see in the dark almost like it is day and in color and it cost about $35. My fancy Canon R6 can display the color of a gas nebula like Orion nebula in the viewfinder which is not as good as what can be recorded.


28 posted on 12/23/2022 12:04:24 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: lee martell

I hear you. I’m also a contrarian. With a few exceptions.

I remember hating station wagons. Now they don’t make them anymore (because nobody wants them) and I decide to buy a Ford Flex because it’s not all angles and swoopiness - just a square box with four doors and a tailgate. Basically a station wagon.

I watched Friends because I like sit-coms, but never a second of Dallas. And don’t give a Kardasian one second of my life’s attention.


29 posted on 12/23/2022 6:28:26 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: lee martell
You must be a relative. Several in my clan are exactly like this, including me. The more popular a thing is, the less likely we are to go see it, hear it, or do it. My folks have never seen Star Wars, the Godfather or ET, never watched Seinfeld or Cheers. Nor have I. I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.

I did watch Horse Feathers.

I don't know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway,
Whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it!

30 posted on 12/23/2022 7:28:22 AM PST by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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