Film is NOT Dead!

By Ron Merk

If you’re wondering if film is dead, check the following list of films and television shows that have been shot on film. Eastman Kodak just published the list on their website to remind us that film is still the medium of choice of some of the best filmmakers in the business. We’ve heard lots about Eastman Kodak’s money worries and their bankruptcy, but it’s very clear that they intend to remain in the film manufacturing business and be the biggest single supplier of film in many different formats for the foreseeable future.

This is not an advertisement for Kodak, but it is intended to convince some of our readers that there are definite benefits to shooting on film. There’s been some recent news from Italy that Ferrania is going back into the film manufacturing business in 2014.

So, while digital media has its apparent advantages, it is not the be-all and end-all for filmmakers as may have been reported elsewhere, or which might be the current opinion of those not in-the-know.

Take a look at this list, and you may be surprised at how many films and shows are still being shot on film.

I’m working on some other articles about why film should not be overlooked because of the “apparent benefits” of shooting on digital media. Stay tuned to this site.

Title	Director	DP
Star Trek Into Darkness	J.J. Abrams	Dan Mindel, ASC, BSC
Man of Steel	Zack Snyder	Amir Mokri
The Lone Ranger	Gore Verbinski	Bojan Bazelli, ASC
The Hunger Games Catching Fire	Francis Lawrence	Jo Willems, BSC
The Hangover Part III	Todd Phillips	Larry Sher
Boardwalk Empire (HBO)	Various	David Franco
Fast & Furious 6	Justin Lin	Stephen F. Windon, ACS
Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel and Ethan Coen	Bruno Delbonnel, AFC, ASC
Mud	Jeff Nichols	Adam Stone
True Blood (HBO)	Various	David Klein, ASC and Romeo Tirone
The Heat	Paul Feig	Robert Yeoman, ASC
Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen	Javier Aguirresarobe, AEC
Fruitvale Station	Ryan Coogler	Rachel Morrison
Breaking Bad (AMC)	Various	Michael Slovis, ASC
Transcendence	Wally Pfister, ASC	Jess Hall, BSC
The Amazing Spider-Man 2	Marc Webb	Dan Mindel. ASC, BSC
Runner Runner	Brad Furman	Mauro Fiore, ASC
August: Osage County	John Wells	Adriano Goldman, ABC
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	Justin Chadwick Lol Crawley
All You Need Is Kill	Doug Liman	Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS
Robopocalypse	Steven Spielberg	Janusz Kaminski
Noah	Darren Aronofsky	Matty Libatique, ASC
2 Guns	Baltasar Kormakur	Oliver Wood
Cinderella	Kenneth Branagh	Haris Zambarloukos, BSC
Noble	Stephen Bradley	Trevor Forrest
How to Catch a Monster	Ryan Gosling	Benoit Debie
American Horror Story (FX)	Various	Michael Goi, ASC
God Help the Girl	Stuart Murdoch	Giles Nuttgens, BSC
Half of a Yellow Sun	Biyi Bandele	John de Borman, BSC
Nina	Cynthia Mort	Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Now You See Me	Louis Leterrier	Mitchell Amundsen; Larry Fong, ASC
The Butler	Lee Daniels	Andrew Dunn, BSC
Malavita	Luc Besson	Michel Abramowicz
The Invisible Woman	Ralph Fiennes	Rob Hardy, BSC
Twelve Years a Slave	Steve McQueen	Sean Bobbitt, BSC
Foxcatcher	Bennet Miller	Greig Fraser, ACS
Hidden Universe	Russell Scott	Malcolm Ludgate, ACS
True Detective (TV)	Cary Fukunaga	Adam Arkapaw
Olympus Has Fallen	Antoine Fuqua	Conrad W. Hall
G.I. Joe: Retaliation	Jon M. Chu	Stephen Windon, ACS
The Place Beyond the Pines	Derek Cianfrance	Sean Bobbitt, BSC
Sweetwater	Logan Miller and Noah Miller	Brad Shield
Unfinished Song	Paul Andrew Williams	Carlos Catalan
Red 2	Dean Parisot	Enrique Chediak, ASC
The Spectacular Now	James Ponsoldt	Jess Hall, BSC
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Thor Freudenthal	Shelly Johnson, ASC
Blood	Nick Murphy	George Richmond
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints	David Lowery	Bradford Young
Austenland	Jerusha Hess	Larry Smith, BSC
Two and a Half Men (TV)	Various	Steven Silver, ASC
The World’s End	Edgar Wright	Bill Pope, ASC
Closed Circuit	John Crowley	Adriano Goldman, ABC
Emperor	Peter Webber	Stuart Dryburgh, ASC
Last Days on Mars	Ruairi Robinson	Robbie Ryan
Oldboy	Spike Lee	Sean Bobbitt, BSC
The Walking Dead (AMC)	Various	Rohn Schmidt
Don Jon	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Thomas Kloss
Kill Your Darlings	John Krokidas	Reed Morano, ASC
The Monuments Men	George Clooney	Phedon Papamichael, ASC
Saving Mr. Banks	John Lee Hancock	John Schwartzman, ASC
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Ben Stiller	Stuart Dryburgh, ASC
Jack Ryan	Kenneth Branagh	Haris Zambarloukos, BSC
Grace of Monaco	Olivier Dahan	Eric Gautier, AFC
Spring Breakers	Harmony Korine	Benoît Debie
The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)	Paolo Sorrentino	Luca Bigazzi
Beasts of the Southern Wild	Behn Zeitlin	Ben Richardson
Savages	Oliver Stone	Dan Mindel, BSC, ASC
The Sapphires	Wayne Blaire	Warwick Thornton
Bourne Legacy	Tony Gilroy	Robert Elswit, ASC
Premium Rush	David Koepp	Mitchell Amundsen
Oslo, August 31st	Joachim Trier	Jakob Ihre
What Maisie Knew	Scott McGehee, David Siegel	Giles Nuttgens, BSC
For Ellen	So Yong Kim	Reed Morano, ASC
The Company You Keep	Robert Redford	Adriano Goldman, ABC
The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	Mihai Malaimare, Jr.
Arbitrage	Nicholas Jarecki	Yorick Le Saux
Looper	Rian Johnson	Steve Yedlin
Taken 2	Olivier Megaton	Romain Lacourbas
Jayne Mansfield’s Car	Billy Bob Thornton	Barry Markowitz, ASC
Seven Psychopaths	Martin McDonagh	Ben Davis, BSC
Argo	Ben Affleck	Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC
Midnight’s Children	Deepa Mehta	Giles Nuttgens, BSC
Cloud Atlas	Tom Tykwer, Andy and Lana Wachowski	John Toll, ASC, Frank Griebe
Lincoln	Steven Spielberg	Janusz Kaminski
Dangerous Liasons	Jin-ho Hur	Byung-seo Kim
Anna Karenina	Joe Wright	Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC
A Royal Affair	Nikolaj Arcel	Rasmus Videbæk
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and 2	Bill Condon	Guillermo Navarro, ASC
Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	Masanobu Takayanagi
Killing Them Softly	Andrew Dominik	Greig Fraser
Les Miserables	Tom Hooper	Danny Cohen, BSC
The Impossible	Juan Antonio Bayona	Óscar Faura
On the Road	Walter Salles	Eric Gautier, AFC
Jack Reacher	Christopher McQuarrie	Caleb Deschanel, ASC
The Guilt Trip	Anne Fletcher	Oliver Stapleton, BSC
Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	Robert Richardson, ASC
Parental Guidance	Andy Fickman	Dean Semler, ASC, ACS
Passion	Brian De Palma	José Luis Alcaine
La Scoperta Dell’alba	Susanna Nicchiarelli	Gherardo Gossi
Doc Martin (TV)	Various	Simon Archer
Dostoevsky (TV)	Vladimir Hotinenko	Elias Demin, RGS
Glee (FOX)	Various	Joaquin Sedillo
Grey’s Anatomy (TV)	Various	Herb Davis
Il Giovane Montalbano (TV)	Gianluca Maria Tavarelli	Lorenzo Adorisio
Il XIII Apostolo (TV)	Alexis Sweet	Mark Melville
Haven (SyFy)	Various	Eric Cayla
Let it Shine	Paul Hoen	David A. Makin
Merlin (TV)	Various	Various
Morton (aka Hunted) (TV)	Various	Various
Reef Doctors (TV)	Colin Budds (7 episodes)	Zenon “Butch” Sawko
Tatort (TV)	Various	Various
The Cafe (TV)	Various	Various
The Middle (TV)	Various	Blake Evans
Treme (HBO)	Various	Ivan Strasburg, BSC
Quartet	Dustin Hoffman	John De Borman, BSC
Stoker	Chan-wook Park	Chung-hoo Chung
Camille Claudel	Bruno Dumont	Guillaume Deffontaines
Jappeloup	Christian Duguay	Ronald Plante
’79 Parts	Ari Taub	Minos Papas
Paradise Lost	Andrea Di Stefano	Luis David Sansans Arnanz
Autumn Blood	Markus Blunder	Reed Morano, ASC
Desert Dancer	Richard Raymond	Carlos Catalan
Filth	John S. Baird	Matthew Jensen
Snowpiercer	Joon-ho Bong	Kyung-Pyo Hong
The Double	Richard Ayode	Erik Wilson
Jadoo	Amit Gupta	Roger Pratt, BSC
Peeples	Tina Gordan Chism	Alexander Gruszynski
Ephraim’s Rescue	T.C. Christensen	T.C. Christensen
Cut Bank	Matt Shakman	Ben Richardson


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