Mid90s: The Passport to a Period
Digital cinema has made us lazy. When a modern filmmaker wants to shoot a period piece, they typically shoot pristine 4K digital footage and then slap a cheap, artificial grain filter over the image in post-production. It is an insulting facsimile of memory. In Mid90s, director Jonah Hill and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt understood that you cannot fake a time period; you must physically record it on the medium of that era. ...