Published at: May 13, 2001, 3:42 p.m. CST by staff
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."
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.