Keanu Reeves (!) Doc Looks At The Good and Bad of the End of 35mm film

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Side By Side: Keanu Reeves produced this documentary that examines what the movie industry stands to gain — and lose — with the extinction of 35mm film.
Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch and David Fincher are among the big names who weigh in.

https://vimeo.com/35206631



Various Sept opening dates, now playing in NYC, Boston, LA:
http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecafilm/side-by-side.html#.UEFI4lS60kc

Wiki:
The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.
It shows what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions.
Interviews with directors, cinematographers, colorists, scientists, engineers and artists reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital — where we are now, how we got here and what the future may bring.
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I finally saw this over the weekend- it is so, SO GOOD!!! Crystals and grain vs 1s and 0s

It's like the most thoughtful DVX thread ever (with the likes of Lucas, Soderbergh, Cameron, Fincher, Rodriguez and Nolan weighing in on your thread!) minus the pixel peepers and haters.

Yeah, plenty of passion, especially those few (usually young) cinematographers refusing to add digital to their arsenal, but it's thoughtful, thorough and incredibly informative.
It even traces the history of digital- from the early days at ILM, through Genesis, early Avid, RED and ending briefly on Alexa and DSLRs.

From acquisition, through comparing color timing to digital grading, to exhibition.

One (of many) interesting aspects was veterans like Scorcese and others embracing digital as just a tool to share their vision, contrasted with some young(ish) DPs saying "you'll have to pry the film from my cold, dead hands..."

Interesting to hear DPs (and directors) say the only one who really knew what a shot on film looked like was the DP... until the dailies came in the next day.
That's a lot of power, trust and mystique, even, for one person on the team to have, and now to be giving up...

Editors also- such as Murch embracing change, Scorcese reminiscing about sliced fingers from cutting film.

And Keanu... who knew? Some of the most thoughtful questions and conversations with the interview subjects one could imagine.

It had such heavy-hitters that the only omissions of major interview subjects might be Spielberg and Jackson.

Biggest topic missing was higher frame rates (ala Jackson), but that probably wasn't a controversy at the time of production.

Possibly saddest comment was all the work, effort, knowledge etc going into a filmed viewed by a 20 year-old on a 4 inch smart phone.

I saw it (appropriately enough, I suppose) at an indie art house, where the server and computer were near the theater exit and I chatted with the projectionist on the way out.
I'm glad I saw it on the (semi) big screen, which I recommend, but it's on Amazon, iTunes and Vudu, and coming soon to Netflix.

Very, very enjoyable- Kudos to Keanu! :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:


Here's some extra clips:
http://www.tribecafilm.com/videos/?sortBy=-startDate&11963=1030576
 
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