A24's THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD: Now Playing in UK Cinemas
Updated: 4 days ago
The Death of Robin Hood, A24's dark reimagining of the Robin Hood legend, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski and shot by Pat Scola ASC, is in UK cinemas now.
The film was shot entirely on 35mm film. Kodak's 250D and 500T stocks were utilised across the principal shoot, with select sequences also captured on Kodak's new VERITA 200D, marking the first feature Cinelab handled on the new stock. Cinelab provided all photochemical processing and 4K scanning on the production.
In a new interview with British Cinematographer, Scola talks through his visual approach; turning to paintings for reference over other film productions. Vermeer informed the single-source window light of the priory interiors; Caravaggio and Goya shaped the film's darker and more hallucinatory passages. NC Wyeth's 1917 oil painting The Passing of Robin Hood served as an early touchstone for the whole production. "That was the first image we inadvertently explored," Scola says. "It may have accidentally informed many of the choices I made."
On the decision to use VERITA 200D for Robin's death scene specifically, Scola is characteristically considered: "It's a beautiful stock and very different to VISION3. I love the choice we made to just use it for Robin's death scene. If you look at the painting of the passing of Robin Hood that influenced us, it's not a painting that feels like grief or sadness - it feels hopeful, like there's a sense of closure or completion in moving on."
Read the full interview here: Pat Scola ASC on The Death of Robin Hood — British Cinematographer
The Death of Robin Hood is in UK cinemas now.
