Favourite Nolan/Pfister Cinematography?

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Crazy Eight wrote:1.) Insomnia
2.) The Dark Knight
3.) The Prestige
4.) Batman Begins
5.) Inception
6.) Memento

All are beautiful films... it was difficult to rank them.
Inception 5? :facepalm:

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Very hard to rank but here i go:

1-Inception
2-Insomnia
3-The dark knight
4-The prestige
5-Memento
6-Batman begins
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thenextnolan wrote:Very hard to rank but here i go:

1-Inception
2-Insomnia
3-The dark knight
4-The prestige
5-Memento
6-Batman begins
The Prestige 4? :facepalm:

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The Prestige 4?
Nothing wrong with thinking that. :roll:

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allstarr55js wrote:
The Prestige 4?
Nothing wrong with thinking that. :roll:
Its his best work.

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In your opinion someone who thinks otherwise does not deserve a facepalm.

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Inception 5? :facepalm:
I didn't like the lighting or color grade of Inception as much as the films listed above it. It felt muted, which was intentional but I wasn't a huge fan of it.

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Crazy Eight wrote:
Inception 5? :facepalm:
I didn't like the lighting or color grade of Inception as much as the films listed above it. It felt muted, which was intentional but I wasn't a huge fan of it.
But that's just the color grading... and isn't that an 'editing issue'. I mean the lighting is a part of the cinematography I guess, ok. But I'm not sure about the color grading.

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prince0gotham wrote:
Crazy Eight wrote:
I didn't like the lighting or color grade of Inception as much as the films listed above it. It felt muted, which was intentional but I wasn't a huge fan of it.
But that's just the color grading... and isn't that an 'editing issue'. I mean the lighting is a part of the cinematography I guess, ok. But I'm not sure about the color grading.
You guess the lighting is apart of the cinematography? LOL It IS cinematography. Color grade is apart of cinematography, the DP sits in and decides how the film should be timed/graded. The Colorist actively does all the grading at the DP's request. Pfister came up with the color schemes and Nolan co-signed.

I personally like the color schemes in INCEPTION, really smart way at decoding which layer is which.

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apart or a part

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