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Venues and visions
Vitrine outside future quarters of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (detail). DB here: During our month in NYC, we didn’t visit only art museums (although KT was at the Met a great deal). We also,...
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Do not forget to return your 3D glasses
(Yours for $11 in theaters equipped with RealD systems, but you don’t get the pouch they came in at the opening midnight screenings) Kristin here: As 3D really took hold in the wake of the release of...
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As the summer winds down, is 3D doing the same?
Something to do with 2D to 3D conversion for Conan the Barbarian. (See 3DLiveFlix) Kristin here: Just over a month ago I posted “Do not forget to return your 3D glasses,” an entry suggesting that on...
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Ponds and performers: two experimental documentaries
Pina 3D. Kristin here, reporting from Vancouver: Entertainment and arts journalists seem to have some telepathic way of agreeing upon what will be the big hooks upon which to hang their stories. This...
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Pandora’s digital box: In the multiplex
Advertisement for NEC digital projectors, Variety July 2005. ELECTRONIC CINEMA IN THE WINGS Not only will [HDTV] usher in a new era of dramatically enhanced sharper-picture, improved color,...
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HUGO: Scorsese’s birthday present to Georges Méliès
Kristin here: This is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Georges Méliès (1861-1938). I doubt that the release of Hugo was timed to coincide with the occasion. If it were, no doubt the press kits...
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Pandora’s digital box: From films to files
“Up ahead was Pandora. You grew up hearing about it, but I never figured I’d be going there.” DB here: Actually it wasn’t originally a box but a jug. And it might not have been filled with all the...
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It’s good to be the King of the World
DB here: Every spring the National Organization of Theatre Owners holds a convention and trade show in Las Vegas. It’s now called CinemaCon, but in earlier times it was known as ShoWest. The gathering...
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DIAL M FOR MURDER: Hitchcock frets not at his narrow room
Dial M for Murder (1954). DB here: This cut makes you say: Huh? Margot’s hand is shamelessly out of proportion and, judging by the men’s stares, we’re somehow looking through her torso. Yet does...
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Side by side by side: Quick catchups
David Lynch in the documentary Side by Side. DB here: Some developments related to recent posts we’ve done! On digital cinema: Cineaste magazine has published a wide-ranging “Critical Symposium on the...
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GRAVITY, Part 1: Two characters adrift in an experimental film
There was no way to rely on anything we knew before this film. No character was like Stone, no film set was ever like these sets, not one member of this crew had ever done this before. We all were...
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GRAVITY, Part 2: Thinking inside the Box
Kristin here: In my previous entry, I described Gravity as an experimental film. I had thought of it that way ever since seeing trailers for it online back in mid-September. I described it as...
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ADIEU AU LANGAGE: 2 + 2 x 3D
Adieu au langage (2014). Godard’s Adieu au Langage is the best new film I’ve seen this year, and the best 3D film I’ve ever seen. As a Godardolater for fifty years, I’m biased, of course. And I might...
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Say hello to GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
DB here: Godard is making trouble again. Adieu au langage–known now as Goodbye to Language– is doing better in the US than any of his films have done in the last thirty-some years. It has a per-screen...
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DVDs and Blu-rays for your letter to Santa
The Cure (1917) Kristin here: One occasional feature of our blog has been to point out new releases on DVD and Blu-ray, especially of titles that haven’t gotten much publicity. Some of these are...
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Vertov, sound technology, and 3D: Recent Blu-ray releases
The Man with a Movie Camera. Kristin here: Every now and then we accumulate a few new DVDs and Blu-ray discs and write up a summary of each. This entry is the first time when all the discs discussed...
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3D in 2019: RealDvided?
Kristin here: From August of 2009 to April of 2012, David and I (mostly I) posted a series of entries on the spread of 3D film production and exhibition. The series kicked off with my provocatively...
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The movie experience as format: A 3D state of the union
Kristin here: On February 13, the day after I posted my blog entry, “3D in 2019: Real Dvided?,” I received an email message from Belgian film critic David Vanden Bossche. He had been intrigued enough...
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Reporting from the Wisconsin Film Festival 2019
Hotel by the River (2018). Kristin here: The Wisconsin Film Festival is all too rapidly approaching its end, so it’s time for a summary of some of the highlights so far. New films from around the...
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