Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Wow, I hope this turns out to be right. A low-level hit man in the Corleone Family stopped by here The Labs earlier tonight with a bit of information he thought I would be interested in. He has no idea how right he was.
"Ron Fricke, the director and cinematographer of BRAKA is working with Coppola on MEGALOPOLIS. Coppola was the Executive Producer of KOYAANISQATSI, which Fricke shot. Fricke is in New York right now shooting some scenes for Coppolas new film. I don't know if there just doing camera tests, or if production has actually began. I'm also not quite sure if the project is MEGALOPOLIS. Fricke is shooting with the 24p DV-Cam though, and his boss on the flick is Coppola. If this project turns out to be MEGALOPOLIS, and Fricke is the the DP, as you so poetically put it sometimes, this could be "SOooooooOOO COOooooOOOL!"
Just think about what Fricke did in KOYAANISQATSI & BARAKA. Now throw Francis Ford Coppola in the creative mix. This could truely be an amazing film. Something of the likes we have never seen before, which is tough in this age of CG and sequels."
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Ron Fricke's work on BARAKA alone should qualify him as one of the most amazing cinematographers working right now. Photographed in 70mm around the world, it's jawdropping. I've said before that we ever send another probe like Voyager II out into the depths of space bearing records of our existence, we need to make sure BARAKA is aboard, playing on an endless loop. KOYAANISQATSI is, of course, an equally impressive achievement, a somber and beautiful mediation on the death of culture by Godfrey Reggio. It was his collaboration with Fricke and with composer Philip Glass that made KOYAANISQATSI so special. If Coppola is using Fricke for MEGALOPOLIS, then I agree with my visitor this morning... we're in for something special, indeed.
"Moriarty" out.
