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  • Roger Deakins on '1984' (2019)
  • Video | 20 min | Documentary, Short
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Roger Deakins on '1984' (2019)
Video | 20 min | Documentary, Short
The near-future totalitarian England of Michael Radford's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', a powerful adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, is a very dark place indeed. The film's brilliant production design and colour-drained photography ...See moreThe near-future totalitarian England of Michael Radford's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', a powerful adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, is a very dark place indeed. The film's brilliant production design and colour-drained photography emphasize the grubby squalor and soul-crushing uniformity of the surveillance state, setting a vividly bleak tone for the story of the unlikely rebellion of lowly bureaucrat Winston Smith (John Hurt). In this documentary short, acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins talks at length about his work on Radford's film, along the way touching on the distinctive pallor of its images. As Deakins explains, the 'silver-tint' process pioneered by the legendary Japanese cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa became his avenue to achieving Radford's vision of an almost colourless 1984. By omitting the bleach-bath step of the print-making process, Deakins succeeded in giving the movie a haunting '50 percent black-and-white' - though not without first setting several projectors on fire during the testing phase. See less
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Jason Altman
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Ivan Cortazar
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Jul 23, 2019 (United States)

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