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Pièce de Résistance Melville keeps a close eye on proceedings during the filming of several French prisoners awaiting execution. the film that was supervised by its director of photography, Pierre Lhomme, AFC, Army of Shadows was theatrically released by Rialto Pictures in 2006. The Criterion Collection recently released a DVD of the film that includes rare French television interviews with Melville, interviews with Lhomme and editor Françoise Bonnot, and an excellent documentary about the liberation of Paris in 1944. Over the course of his career, Lhomme, now a vigorous 77 years old, collaborated with a host of influential directors, including Chris Marker, Robert Bresson, Jean Eustache, Dusan Makavejev, Patrice Chéreau, Marguerite Duras and Bertrand Blier. His credits include Le Joli Mai, The King of Hearts, The Mother and the Whore, Camille Claudel and Cyrano de Bergerac. He served as the first president of the AFC. The cinematographer recalls meeting Melville to discuss 64 July 2007 Army of Shadows in 1968, when Lhomme was in his late 30s. “I was surprised when he called me, given the small number of films I’d made,” he says. “He told me to meet him in a small, provincial railway station near his home. When I arrived, the station square was deserted except for a white Camaro. I said to myself, ‘That’s Melville.’ I approached the car, and out came a man wearing a Stetson hat and Ray-Ban sunglasses. He opened the door and said, ‘Monsieur Lhomme, climb in.’ We zoom off, and he immediately starts talking cinema. He had seen the few films I’d made and told me what he liked about my work, and he spoke about the directors he liked: William Wyler, Howard Hawks and Robert Wise. That was how it began.” The subsequent shoot took 14 weeks, “back when we only worked eight hours a day,” and Lhomme notes this was a tight schedule for a 140-minute feature. He reveals that Melville wanted to shoot the picture in black-andwhite, but the financiers mandated color. The filmmakers subsequently strove for images that were as desaturated as possible, leaning toward the blue tones. “Melville hated warm colors, so every effort was made to avoid them, and bright colors in general,” says Lhomme. In addition, a thin orange-yellow wash of paint was sometimes added to the set walls and later timed out by adding blue; this allowed the filmmakers to achieve paler skin tones while keeping the walls gray. The restoration of Army of Shadows was initiated by Studio Canal with assistance from the CNC, the French National Center for Cinema. Lhomme was involved in the timing of the restored print and the digital master, working with restoration supervisor Ronald Boullet and color timer Raymond Terrentin

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - July 2007

Contents
Editor’s Note
DVD Playback
Production Slate
One-Man Riot Squad
Laws of the Jungle
A Hollywood Whodunit
Pièce de Résistance
Short Takes
Post Focus
Filmmakers’ Forum
New Products & Services
Points East
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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