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Film Formally gets granular about how movies work by studying a technique or trait through its best examples. Independent filmmakers and friends Devan Scott and Willa Harlow Ross leverage years of experience watching and making movies to bring you spirited and approachable conversations, offering brick-by-brick analysis and discussions about how films work.
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Are Movies Getting Uglier?!
Movies these days are dim, flat, dull. You know it, we know it, everyone seems to know it. But is it true? If so, how did we get here? If not, is it mere nostalgia, or is something deeper amiss? To sort through the wreckage of this discours
Restoring the Dollars Trilogy with James White & James Flower of Arrow Video
In today's episode, James Flower and James White from Arrow Video join us to discuss the world of film preservation and boutique home video labels, and in particular their recent release of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. The story of this
Digital Colour w/ Dirk Meier, Colourist of 'Secret Agent'
If any modern colourist has seen it all, it’s Dirk Meier. From the long-take trenches of the early digital masterpiece Russian Ark and the boundary-pushing slow-motion of Antichrist, to emulating distinct formats in Happy as Lazzaro and Rom
Il Cinema Ritrovato: A Festival Dispatch
In this extra-hot special emergency dispatch episode, Devan's in Bologna, Italy at Il Cinema Ritrovato, the world's premiere archival film festival! Every year, tens of thousands of cinephiles gather in Italy to watch old movies presented a
Large Format Myths (Film Formally is back!)
Film Formally returns! What's changed? 1. We're a video podcast now! 2. We're a monthly podcast now! Otherwise, you know the drill: Devan Scott and Willa Harlow Ross - and sometimes a guest - dive deep into the formal building blocks of cin
Commentary 6 - STILL PROCESSING with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
Commentary 5 - IN DOG YEARS with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
Commentary 4 - NORMAN NORMAN with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
Commentary 3 - PUMPKIN MOVIE with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
Commentary 2 - IT’S HIM with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
Commentary 1 - NINE BEHIND with Sophy Romvari
FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/)’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL (https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-sophy-romvari) and to mark the occasion we’ve record
1-Year Anniversary Q&A [Featuring Wong Kar-wai and Snyder Cut Hot Takes]
It’s our one-year, 43rd-episode spectacular, and we’re once again answering your questions! We go deep on the new WONG KAR-WAI restorations, our thoughts on Zach Snyder’s JUSTICE LEAGUE, the merits of handheld camera operation, film scores,
S3E10 - Rescuing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Benji Heran & Jordan Krug
How an acclaimed director’s versions of a famous film be unavailable for decades — when there’s nothing stopping their release? How can a small group of fans gather the evidence and means to reconstruct those versions? How can they finally
S3E09 - Adapting Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Tim Brayton
Adapting literary works to the screen involves a certain amount of translation. There are certain things that are easily conveyed in writing that cannot be conveyed in a straightforward way onscreen; likewise, there are elements of cinemati
S3E08 - Colour Grading with Andrea Chlebak
Colour grading, the art of manipulating the colour of a film digitally in post-production, is as omnipresent as it is misunderstood. To help demystify the process, we’ve invited supervising colourist Andrea Chlebak (http://www.andreachlebak
S3E07 - The Bourne Series and Chaos Cinema
Extreme ways are back! In pog form! This week we’ve got a wonderful little discussion about the evolution of the Jason Bourne film series. In particular, we’re here to dissect how Paul Greengrass transformed it into the 21st century’s forem
S3E06 - Wes Craven's Meta Horror with Mike Thorn
Geez, it’s been a while since we got spooky on the show, hasn’t it? High time we brought back Mike Thorn to talk about how Wes Craven fused meta storytelling and horror in two franchises: A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. We’ll permeate
S3E05 - After Last Season and Outsider Art with Bram Ruiter
An Anti-Masterpiece is, as defined by our own Will Ross, is “an astonishing, essential work of art in spite of a distinct lack of conventional competence on the part of its makers”. After Last Season (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Las
S3E04 - Eighth Grade and the Internet with Bronwyn Henderson and Brietta Stewart
For this episode our Associate Producer Paige Smith has relieved Devan and Will of hosting duties so that she can talk about Eighth Grade’s depiction and use of the Internet — and she’s brought on two friends who survived eighth grade with
S3e03 - Documentary Verite with Sophy Romvari
In part two of our Verite series we discuss truth in documentary filmmaking with returning guest Sophy Romvari (https://sophy.me/). Sophy’s films have increasingly blurred the line between fact and fiction and are often classified as ‘hybri
S3E02 - Narrative Verite with Whit Stillman
We're doing two episodes on truth in cinema, starting with one on standards of reality in narrative films. Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Disco, Love & Friendship) joined us, largely to register his animosity towards the idea of making sty
S3E01 - Film Preservation and Home Video with Blake Blasingame
Welcome to season 3! To kick things off, we’ve brought Duplitech Film Services Manager Blake Blasingame in to discuss film preservation and mastering for home video. Are you ready for 88 minutes of unadulterated shop talk about grain struct
Inter-season Special 2 - Listener Q&A
It’s our second SEASON BREAK SPECTACULAR! You sent us some great questions, and we answered them. Per our answer early in the pod, you can check out https://native-land.ca/ to see which indigenous territory you might live on (bear in mind i
AMA Announcement - Plus HOT TAKES with Devan
Film Formally is on hiatus, but that won't stop us from taking your questions! Take our quick survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Y7HV6CM to submit questions that we'll answer on our podcast in an upcoming episode. Plus, Devan comes in
S2E10 - Colour in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai
For our season 2 finale, we keep it simple and discuss none other than the use of colour across the works of Wong Kar-Wai. In particular, we discuss the use of colour to evoke emotions, mood, and symbolism in his 21st century masterpieces I
S2E09 - EMERGENCY PODCAST: Justice League & The Snyder Cut
It’s an emergency, time for a podcast! This week, we’re discussing the sordid tale of the DC comics behemoth blockbuster Justice League. Initially released in 2017 to much disappointment after extensive Joss Whedon-helmed reshoots, it’s tak
S2E08 - Lighting Motivation feat. Paige Smith
How do we light our movies? The answer for many starts with the idea of motivation. What, within the world of our film, justifies the light illuminating our stories? In this episode we once again sit down with Paige Smith to discuss the ins
S2E07 - Blocking in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Okay, folks, it's time for blocking! The pre-planned arrangement, movement, and posturing of characters in a frame is one of a director's most artistically demanding on-set tasks, and nobody blocked a scene better than Sidney Lumet (whom we
S2E06 - Experimental Animation
Today we're taking a trip through a few of the wild worlds of experimental animation, to get a sense of what makes these proudly bizarre shorts — which take on or even invent processes unheard of in mainstream animated films — feel so persu
S2E05 - American Utopia and Visual Structures in Concert Cinema
There’s a new concert film out! It’s called David Byrne’s American Utopia, directed by none other than Spike Lee and shot by none other than Ellen Kuras. It documents David Byrne’s most recent tour-turned Broadway show, and it’s drawn much
