Single lens shot movies

[rama lingam]

Master Roger could you suggest single lens shot movies, except ‘touch of evil’

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[umbrella]

Cosmopolis was shot entirely with a 21mm lens.

Call me By Your Name was shot entirely with a Cooke 35mm lens.

Bottle Rocket was shot with a 27mm. And I think Tenenbaums solely with a 40mm.

Pretty sure like all of The Wrestler except for one or two shots used a 12mm lens on a Super16 camera. And Roger used a 40mm lens for 99% of 1917 besides a few interiors where he went a bit wider IIRC.

[rama lingam]

Thanks for your suggestion. But I asked about masters work. Particularly old movies

[rama lingam]

Master Roger could you consider my question?

[BlacksheepPictures]

Psycho on 50 mm

[Roger Deakins]

You could look online. There are many films pre 1960 that were shot on a single lens. Earlier filmmakers had little choice. And there are some recent films shot on one wide lens. And then there was, 1917, basically shot on a 40mm.

[dmullenasc]

There are hardly any movies where the same lens was used 100% of the time; especially not “Psycho” (mostly a 50mm)… nor “Touch of Evil” (mostly a 18.5mm). Supposedly “The Last Picture Show” was all shot on a 28mm but who can be sure? Most of “Paper Moon” was shot that way too, but Kovacs also used other lenses, like a 30mm.

Wes Anderson movies often mix in a zoom lens shot now & then so they aren’t 100% shot on one prime lens.

Ozu was famous for using a 50mm on every shot so he would be a good choice.

[LucaM]

Perhaps i’m wrong, but i have the impression that while the focal length per se it’s an interesting information,  it’s more interesting to compare it to the story, to see how it serves the narrative and the reason behind the choice of that particular lens. In other words, i suppose it was technically possible to shoot, let’s say for example, “1917” only in 18 or in 24 mm (with different results, of course) : the interesting part , to me at least , it’s not that they used just 1 lens, but why they used that lens and what choices they were forced to do because of that.

[rama lingam]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thanks Rogerdeakins and David Mullen. I tried to get some list of black and white movies shot on one lens. But I couldn’t find any list. Ii have heard ‘ touch of evil’ and ‘psycho’ most part shot on one lens. Can’t find any movie except these two or three films. I didn’t  see ‘The last picture show'</p>

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