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wanted to make it black-and-white.” In preparation for the shoot, Ruhe screened some recent black-andwhite pictures: The Man Who Wasn’t There; Good Night, and Good Luck; and Angel-A. “Great as they were,” he offers, “we were after something else, something more grounded in the feel of England in the Seventies.” In particular, the filmmakers didn’t want to let Corbijn’s idiosyncratic, anti-glamorous approach to portraiture (black-and-white, highcontrast, “overcooked” imagery) overwhelm the emotional content of the film. “With black-and-white it’s tempting to stylize things, to create an artificial world, but we didn’t want the film stock to become a character on its own,” Ruhe points out. “One problem is that blackand-white stocks are very grainy. The tests we shot already looked dated.” So for Control, Ruhe ran two Kodak Vision2 color stocks through his Panaflex Millennium XL camera — 500T 5218 for the concert sequences and 200T 5217 for every- Photos courtesy of The Weinstein Co., Martin Ruhe and Anton Corbijn. thing else — with an eye toward digital intermediate (DI) post-processing. “The tricky thing about the DI pathway is getting real black-andwhite onto the screen,” he says. “Most distributors aren’t able to show expensive black-and-white prints, but when you write your DI back out to film, a shift of half a step in the print lights may result in a tinted image.” Indeed, though the print that screened at Cannes convinced nearly everyone that the film had been shot on black-and-white stock, a couple of the reels projected at a press screening in Los Angeles had a slightly red or green cast. “Two more reasons we decided to do the DI were budget and logistics,” Ruhe concedes. “We had Opposite: In Control, English rock singer Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) finds his rising stardom stunted by personal conflicts and the onset of epileptic seizures. This page, top: Curtis performs the song “Warsaw” during an early gig with his band, Joy Division. Below: Contrasty lighting helps convey the singer’s angst during a performance scene in which he suffers an epileptic fit. “We used only harsh 1K and 500-watt Par cans, nothing modern,” says cinematographer Martin Ruhe, who studied period concert photos for lighting design. “We put them wherever there was room and pointed them directly at our actors.” American Cinematographer 75

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American Cinematographer - November 2007
Contents
Editor’s Note
Global Village
DVD Playback
Production Slate
Deconstructing Bob Dylan
Honoring a Lost Friend
Night Terrors
Losing Control
TV’s Top-Rated
Short Takes
Post Focus
New Products & Services
Points East
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Global Village
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Deconstructing Bob Dylan
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Honoring a Lost Friend
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Post Focus
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - International Marketplace
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - Clubhouse News
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American Cinematographer - November 2007 - ASC Close-Up
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