Watch: Filmmaker Sean Baker Shows How 35mm Film Prints Are Made

“Use film if you can.” 🎞️ Letterboxd has debuted a promo video featuring the acclaimed director of Anora, Sean Baker, visiting a film processing facility in Los Angeles to check the quality of newly struck prints. This the kind of marketing I dig! Anora just opened in US theaters last weekend and will be expanding to more cities soon – and some special locations will be showing it in 35mm. This video features Letterboxd’s host Flynn Slicker interviewing filmmaker Baker while he visits FotoKem, a famous film processing house based in Burbank (originally founded in 1963!). Anora was also shot on 35mm using Arricam LT cameras, processed into a digital negative by Kodak Film Lab. It’s nice to see them going back and letting it screen on film in at least a few theaters. Of course, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist will also be getting a full-on 35mm & 70mm film release coming up in December this fall. I am a cinema geek that loves getting into this kind of stuff, the technical details of how to make and print and prepare film stock for projection. I also enjoy any videos about projectionists and the few projection rooms that still have real film projectors installed. Enjoy. // Continue Reading ›