
"1917" Director Sam Mendes & Cinematographer Roger Deakins
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The Importance of Depth of Field
"I found the image on this new Alexa remarkable. It has the intimacy, but on the other hand, you feel like you can see enough of the landscape," says director Sam Mendes. "It's not rigid, rigid frame. We're not in a kind of Kubrickian, you know, absolutely rigid, locked off frame."
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