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‘Billy Lynn’: Grading Life at 120 Frames
Shooting Ang Lee’s experimental 'Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk' was an epic feat. Grading and mastering the film was no less daunting.
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The Unprecedented Postproduction Workflow for ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
"It really became about finding, at every stage of the project, how we could make things quicker – on set, in dailies, and in...
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Tech Supervisor on the Challenges of Pioneering the Wild West of HFR
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk may have been a divisive film artistically speaking, but there’s no denying it was the most technologically advanced film...
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How Mathematics Make Displaying ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Possible
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was shot in an unprecedented 120fps and in 4K 3D. But presenting that high frame rate properly seemed almost...
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The Post-Production Team of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Built Their Workflow From Scratch
The post-production team of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk gathered together at an event this month to discuss their unique workflow that required dealing...
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Does ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”s High Frame Rate Expose Too Much Truth?
Several filmmakers and production professionals debate the merits of Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and its unprecedented 4K 3D 120 fps presentation....
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’: The Challenges & Cinematic Possibilities of HFR Imaging
“The aesthetic is different when you see all that detail. You see everything. It was really intimidating,” says director Ang Lee.
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Why ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Is Worth More Than Just a Cursory Dismissal
Derek Schweickart, who worked on the post-production team of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, writes an impassioned essay defending the film’s high frame rate...
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All the Chatter on ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
Ang Lee’s latest film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk tells the story of a young soldier reeling from the effects of war all while...
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Might Be More Immersive Than VR
"Very few of us have ever seen a movie at 120fps, 3D, 4K, and 28 footlamberts, and honestly it takes a little getting used...
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How ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Exposes the Artifices of Film
"Everything about it – the movement, the staging, the focus, the transitions – feels wrong."
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Ang Lee Says He Will Continue to Explore High Frame Rate
While Ang Lee’s 120 frames-per-second experiment in his latest film Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk hasn’t exactly been met with praise (critics have overwhelmingly...
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Veteran Cinematographer John Toll on Writing a New Cinematic Rule Book to Film ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
John Toll was not really a fan of even 3D capture when he got the call from Ang Lee to work with him on...
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Parts of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Sing
IndieWire‘s Anne Thompson reviews Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and praises Lee for taking a step into the unknown with the film’s...
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James Cameron Remains Bullish on High Frame Rate and Glasses-Free 3D
The reactions to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk–Ang Lee’s film shot and presented at an unprecedented 120 fps 4K 3D–have been lukewarm, with many...
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A Critical Look at ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk”s High Frame Rate
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a technological achievement for director Ang Lee and his crew. It was shot in 120 frames per second,...
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Inside the Unprecedented Tech Feats of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
Display Daily‘s Bob Raikes explains some of the technical prowess that went into filming Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk in an unprecedented 120...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Technological Breakthroughs of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk;
Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is the first feature-length film to be shot and presented in 120 frames per second. Furthermore, it...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to the Technological Breakthroughs of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
David Leitner carefully explains all of the technological breakthroughs and how Lee uses each one to enhance the story.
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Critics Weigh In on the High Frame Rate of ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk premiered at the New York Film Festival this weekend. The film, about a soldier coming to terms...
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Ang Lee Says His 120fps ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Is Like a New Medium
Ang Lee continues to push the technological limits of filmmaking. Four years after his 3D Life of Pi (which won him the Best Director...