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Hey folks,With the upcoming onslaught of interesting movies this year, I am interested in maybe checking out a movie or two in a theater with a digital projector. Are there any? Is there a place to find out if any movies are being released in this format. (I think I read somewhere that the next Star Wars would be) Any input would be helpful. I live in Michigan so anything closer than farther would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
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Make sure to read the exchange with the cinematographer.http://www.rossanthony.com/R/rookie.shtml
Don't get too excited just yet. Anything I've seen in DLP has been dreadful. Critic Roger Ebert has been actively campaigning against DLP in theaters. Here's an interesting question and answer from his site. I think that pretty soon we're going to have another analog/digital debate, but this time, at the movies.
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Q. I read Ross Anthony's review of "The Rookie" (http://rossanthony.com/) and he claims the entire movie was shot on video (not film). I cannot find any facts to support that view.Herb Kane, criticdoctor.com
A. Anthony gives several reasons why he thinks "The Rookie" was shot on video, including jittery tracking shots, pastiness in long shots, and washed-out color. The print I saw looked superb. It may be Anthony saw it projected on video. For a verdict, I turned to Steven Poster, president of the American Society of Cinematographers, who responds: "The movie was shot Wide Screen Anamorphic, Panavision 'C' series lenses with Kodak 5277 Emulsion. Nothing but the best for my friend John Schwartzman. What Anthony might have seen is a digitally-projected presentation at the El Capitian theater. And that would go to prove what you and I believe in our hearts; not only is film not dead, it doesn't even have a cold. I've seen the same kind of junky-looking presentations from digitally-presented movies before. It's just not even close to film yet."
P.S. Poster's guess was on the money. Ross Anthony writes me that he did indeed see the film projected digitally, has been discussing differences between film and video projection with Schwartzman, and will be writing about this experience.
Roger Ebert noted a long while back after seeing a digitally projected film that digital projection made the viewer feel more passive (like watching TV), while film projection made the viewer feel more drawn in.Could this become the "tubes versus solid state" debate of film?
The digital projection I saw of Star Wars episode I made me sick...literally. Digital projection is unwatchable for me.
YES!A letter in the WSJ a couple days ago limned the debate by actually quoting resolution figures. DLP is *way low* in comparison. But the guy also stated there were *unmeasurable* differences as well.
CLARK
It seems the concept of the movie theatre is slowly disappearing, and giving way to the home theatre concept...no matter how many orders of nachos and cheese they offer!
Not true...movie theaters are doing as good, or better than ever!Doug Schneider
Now if they could only do something about the idiots who go there and think it's their living room...then I would go to a movie theater !
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