short view - Mank

[Fritz]

on Netflix. Really good "bio" on Mankiewicz, the actually screen writer on Citizen Kane for Orson Wells.

Gary Oldman kills it. Amanda Seyfried does as well.
But there are a lot of great players.

B&W and directed by David Fincher - Mindhunter, House of Cards (US), and others.

I never watch a film twice. Did so with Mank.

[Blankity Blank]

I’ll co-sign that.

I also finally saw “Fences”. Officially my new favorite movie of all time (Sorry, Godfather, Three Billboards and Glengarry Glenross. You all had good runs at the top.)

Denzel and Viola were stunning, and the rest of the cast excellent.

This movie was like having stories from ‘back in the day”, told by my mom and my aunty, shot straight into a vein.

[NewtonMP2100]

....Manks......for the mammaries.....???

[mrbigstuff]

I'll have to keep these in mind. Going to watch Cutter's Way this weekend, and I've never seen it.

[August West]

Fritz,

Notice the dialog edit/clarity? Provoked discussion in the audio post community. Do we really need clarity in dialog or is less clarity a more thought provoking addition to the storytelling/filmmaking?

[Fritz]

I just had this discussion with another post friend.

We was talking about the significance of the LKFS changes (if anyone cares to read what we're on about) that Netflix Scott Kramer who is Manager, Sound Technology, made a while back.
Cool, very smart guy I met when I started the now dead "Patriot Act". (sorry Netflix, you shoulda stuck with it. Way better than that guy and that woman.)

My buddy felt he was chasing levels when he watched with his older 5.1 Yamaha, though he usually chooses 2.1. Me, I'm 2.0. I don't chase levels as I am (generally) ok with dialog "reality". There are times I do rewind.
Though we are both older than dirt, I'd think our hearing was still decent as we generally aren't above 85db ..... except when AC/DC comes on.

When I watch Brit shows, Ted Lasso, Flack, Fleabag, etc, between the rapid speech and the billions of dialects, I give up and flip on the subs, quitter that I am.

Someday, I'd hope, that there would be a center channel crush or parallel available for those who want the clarity and are too lazy to flip the subs (I wish there was a momentary for this as well, but these minimal remotes, feh!)

For Mank, didn't bother me, but I did watch a 2nd time.

Oldman reminded me of Brando and Dunaway in Don Juan DeMarco, a film that got nuthin, even though they just seem to be jammin the whole way thru. And Dep is pretty damn good too.

[RAMd®d]

I approve of 'chasing levels' to some degree.

Otherwise, I'm the one doing gain riding.

It doesn't help any when some actors muff a word or sentence.

I rewind from time to time, and if that doesn't work, I turn on subtitles.

It's almost a habit to turn them on anyway, as there's very frequently words or phrases in TV shows that defy intelligibility.

Two things about subtitles that bother me– frequently there are words in the subs that the actors didn't say, and often in SDH subs, there are 'sounds' that aren't in the sound track, no matter how loud the volume, even at 11.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....what if you met a woman with......Mank hands.......could you date a woman with Mank.....hands [ Seinfeld reference ]......??

[Wags]

Rosebud

[N-OS X-tasy!]

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