I just watched 'La La Land' (2017, UK release date) for the first time this weekend, and I felt as if I just had to talk about its superb cinematography.
'La La Land' is an American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film's title refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality.
The entire way the movie was filmed was based off the 1930s works of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. The director of the film wanted the film to emulate the widescreen, CinemaScope look of 1950s musicals such as 'It's Always Fair Weather' (1955). Consequently, the film was shot on film (not digitally) with Panavision equipment in a widescreen format, but not true CinemaScope as that technology is no longer available. However this cinematography added a more theatrical feel to the film, and made it a more unique type for the era that it was filmed in. The way that the movie was filmed and the locations that it was based in gave me an old fashioned movie vibe, even though the film was in based in the world of today, including mobile phones and modern day cars. It still had a beautiful feeling about it, representing a glimpse of nostalgia to the early film era.
As of February 26, 2017, 'La La Land' has grossed $140.9 million in the United States and Canada and $228. As well as 1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $369 million against a production budget of $30 million. 'La La Land' was also met with critical acclaim upon its release, with critics praising its screenplay, direction, performances, musical score and musical numbers. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 93%, based on 332 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10.
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