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"Taking In the Big Picture" -- Fine article on 70mm in the Journal

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on June 1, 2008 at 10:48:45

[Just let me say at the outset, nearly every time I post a good piece of writing, I am instructed by various schoolmarms here to write my own. So bring it on!]

First, though, a Cinematheque host welcomed the audience -- the 425-seat house was full -- and asked how many people had ever seen the film [2001]projected. Fewer than half raised their hands.

He didn't mean projected in 70mm as opposed to 35mm, but projected at all, as opposed to displayed on a TV. The audience response suggested how far the movie medium has strayed from the eye-popping, soul-filling images that used to be its stock-in-trade. For most of these moviegoers, Kubrick's universe had been shrunk to fit the dinky dimensions of a home appliance.

Shrunk to fit the dinky dimensions of a home appliance.

And there you have it.

clark

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121217917627333609.html   (Open in New Window)

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