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Left and below:
Ben wanders
through New
York, looking for a
bookstore he
hopes will hold a
clue to his father's
identity. Bottom:
Ben and his
grandmother (also
played by Julianne
Moore) pass by
the Unisphere on
their way to the
Queens Museum.

Schlesinger and shot by Adam
Holender, ASC, and The French
Connection [AC Feb. '72], which Owen
Roizman, ASC shot for Billy Friedkin
and which captured the street reality of
New York's run-down urban landscape
in its documented style.
I reached out to Owen about his
use of zooms, which are so prevalent in
that film and were part of the style in
New York in the 1970s - and all these
years later, he was still unhappy about
Friedkin wanting to use zooms as punctuation! To reference that period, Todd
wanted to use zooms also, so I shot with
my older zooms: the Cooke 20-60mm
(T3.1) and 20-100mm (T3.1), and
Angenieux 25-250mm (T3.5). In talking to Angenieux I discovered that the
glass in the '70s had more lead in the
elements, and it could possibly have
contributed to the contrast and overall
look and feel of the image.
We used the zooms' longer focal
lengths - as well as an Olympus
180mm and Canon 200, 300 and
400mm telephoto still lenses converted
to PL mount - to isolate Ben in New
York City. I also used Canon K-35
primes, which I had used back then; they
have more color shift and flare, and aren't
as color-corrected as modern lenses.
We shot with two contemporary
color film stocks. I used Kodak Vision3
500T 5219 and 250D 5207, both
pushed one stop to emulate a grain
structure similar to the earlier film
stocks used in the '70s - i.e., 5254,
which only had an ASA of 100T, so it
often had to be pushed. The color

rendition often went green in the
shadow detail and magenta in the
highlights, especially when 5254 was
pushed; I tried to emulate that by pushing the more modern T-grain stocks
and shifting the color temperature of
the stocks, sometimes by shooting
tungsten film outdoors with an 85C
filter or shooting the 250D indoors
under mixed lighting without correction. I also played with that in the DI
with our colorist Joe Gawler at Harbor
Picture Co. Joe is absolutely brilliant
and was totally committed to the
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project, as was his company.
I wanted the saturation of colors
and the mixed color temperatures that I
remembered from the '70s. I looked at
the work of still photographers of the
time - including Richard Misrach,
Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, Mitch
Epstein, Len Jenshel and William
Eggleston - who were all experimenting with color. The other reference that
was still in our minds was the poetic
realism of Saul Leiter, who was our
inspiration for Mildred Pierce and Carol.

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