Introducing Screen Watch!
I am excited to announce this new feature on our blog for 2012. Each week, we will post the best trailers, videos, reviews, and articles on the film industry as it relates to the Ambler and County Theaters. For this inaugural post, I wanted to wrap up 2011 and the changes to the industry that we will be exploring this coming year. It should be no surprise that the biggest topic of conversation is Digital Cinema.
Pictured above: A graveyard of 35mm projectors and platters that have been removed to make room for digital. (Photo thanks to Steve Guttag.)
Considering that the vast majority of movie viewing is digital, including home viewing, why are filmmakers still shooting on film if virtually nobody will ever see it projected on film? - Filmmaker Jamie Stewart from IndieWire on how digital has changed cinematography.
Major manufacturers have ceased production of new motion picture film cameras; cinema as we once knew it is dead. – Matt Zoller Seitz in Salon on the end of production of 35mm film camera.
Roger Ebert opined on “The Sudden Death of Film“, discussing what will be lost at the end of the celluloid age.
Time Magazine’s Moneyland broke down 2011 at the Box Office reporting that it was the worst year since 1995. (Contrary to the big theaters around the County, we had a fantastic year. Thanks!)
IndieWire reported the box office hits from New Year’s weekend. The big winners: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Iron Lady.
Also from IndieWire: the top grossing indie films of 2011.
How digital will effect projectionists, by Temujin Doran projectionist at The Screen on the Green, London.
Derek Thompson mused about why all movie tickets cost the same.
New trailer for The Iron Lady
A Featurette on the Making of The Artist
Russ Fisher from SlashFilm breaks down some storyboards from The Tree of Life that show un-shot sequences featuring Cain and Abel.
And just for fun:
Michel Gondry’s low-fi recreation of Taxi Driver.
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Do you have an article, video, or news that you think we should share? Send it to ccollier@renewtheaters.org.
Thanks to Steve Goetz, Shane Jenkins, Mike Zankowski, and Brian Majeska for sharing articles for this week’s post.
