{"id":9009,"date":"2010-09-05T19:56:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2010-09-05T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T18:56:42","slug":"john-bailey-on-shooting-days-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/05\/john-bailey-on-shooting-days-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bailey on shooting Days of Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Days-of-Heaven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9010\" title=\"Days of Heaven\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Days-of-Heaven.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terence Malick&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077405\/\">Days of Heaven<\/a><\/strong> (1978) is one of the most visually stunning films ever made, a poetic tale of a couple (Richard Gere and Brooke Adams) who migrate to the Texas panhandle in order to work for a farmer (Sam Shepherd) in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully shot by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000743\/\">Nestor Almendros<\/a>, it is famous for its cinematopgraphy, especially the way in which it captures the magic hour between dusk and dawn.<\/p>\n<p>In this video cinematographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0007037\/\">John Bailey<\/a>, who served as a camera operator on the film, sheds some light on how Alemendros and Malick managed to give the film its unique look.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X4SmYoVj9Po?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X4SmYoVj9Po?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077405\/\">Days of Heaven<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00005MFHG?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B00005MFHG\">Buy the Region 2 DVD<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003152YXC?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B003152YXC\">Criterion Blu-ray<\/a> (Region 1 only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video of John Bailey discussing how Terence Malick and Nestor Alemendros shot Days of Heaven (1978)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1535,1536,1537,1505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}