Film Formally

Are Movies Getting Uglier?!

Movies these days are dim, flat, dull. You know it, we know it, everyone seems to know it. But is it true? If so, how did we get here? If not, is it mere nostalgia, or is

Restoring the Dollars Trilogy with James White & James Flower of Arrow Video

In today's episode, James Flower and James White from Arrow Video join us to discuss the world of film preservation and boutique home video labels, and in particular thei

Digital Colour w/ Dirk Meier, Colourist of 'Secret Agent'

If any modern colourist has seen it all, it’s Dirk Meier. From the long-take trenches of the early digital masterpiece Russian Ark and the boundary-pushing slow-motion of

Il Cinema Ritrovato: A Festival Dispatch

In this extra-hot special emergency dispatch episode, Devan's in Bologna, Italy at Il Cinema Ritrovato, the world's premiere archival film festival! Every year, tens of t

Large Format Myths (Film Formally is back!)

Film Formally returns! What's changed? 1. We're a video podcast now!  2. We're a monthly podcast now! Otherwise, you know the drill:  Devan Scott and Willa Harlow Ross

Commentary 6 - STILL PROCESSING with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

Commentary 5 - IN DOG YEARS with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

Commentary 4 - NORMAN NORMAN with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

Commentary 3 - PUMPKIN MOVIE with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

Commentary 2 - IT’S HIM with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

Commentary 1 - NINE BEHIND with Sophy Romvari

FILM FORMALLY is back! This month, friend of the podcast Sophy Romvari’s films are premiering on the CRITERION CHANNEL and to mark the occasion we’ve recorded a set of co

1-Year Anniversary Q&A [Featuring Wong Kar-wai and Snyder Cut Hot Takes]

It’s our one-year, 43rd-episode spectacular, and we’re once again answering your questions! We go deep on the new WONG KAR-WAI restorations, our thoughts on Zach Snyder’s

S3E10 - Rescuing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with Benji Heran & Jordan Krug

How an acclaimed director’s versions of a famous film be unavailable for decades — when there’s nothing stopping their release? How can a small group of fans gather the e

S3E09 - Adapting Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Tim Brayton

Adapting literary works to the screen involves a certain amount of translation. There are certain things that are easily conveyed in writing that cannot be conveyed in a

S3E08 - Colour Grading with Andrea Chlebak

Colour grading, the art of manipulating the colour of a film digitally in post-production, is as omnipresent as it is misunderstood. To help demystify the process, we’ve

S3E07 - The Bourne Series and Chaos Cinema

Extreme ways are back! In pog form! This week we’ve got a wonderful little discussion about the evolution of the Jason Bourne film series. In particular, we’re here to di

S3E06 - Wes Craven's Meta Horror with Mike Thorn

Geez, it’s been a while since we got spooky on the show, hasn’t it? High time we brought back Mike Thorn to talk about how Wes Craven fused meta storytelling and horror i

S3E05 - After Last Season and Outsider Art with Bram Ruiter

An Anti-Masterpiece is, as defined by our own Will Ross, is “an astonishing, essential work of art in spite of a distinct lack of conventional competence on the part of i

S3E04 - Eighth Grade and the Internet with Bronwyn Henderson and Brietta Stewart

For this episode our Associate Producer Paige Smith has relieved Devan and Will of hosting duties so that she can talk about Eighth Grade’s depiction and use of the Inter

S3e03 - Documentary Verite with Sophy Romvari

In part two of our Verite series we discuss truth in documentary filmmaking with returning guest Sophy Romvari. Sophy’s films have increasingly blurred the line between f