Comments on: Watch: Trailer For ‘Out Of Print’ Reflects On The Future Of 35mm In An Increasing Digital Age https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-20140801/ Mon, 23 May 2016 05:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: J https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-20140801/#comment-146106 Mon, 23 May 2016 05:55:13 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-273877/#comment-146106 As someone that programmed a revival theater, of sorts, while I'm disappointed 35mm is on the way out, digital is so much easier.

Don't get me wrong. I love film. But not every theater has the luxury of the New Bev where they can just call QT to get a print from his collection, or a filmmaker that still owns a print to play. Every time we ordered a 35mm print, it usually was a disaster. The only time we got a print that didn't mess up was when we ordered a fresh print of My Neighbor Totoro from Gkids. And studios are even worse than going through a second run distributor. When you go through the actual studio they send you the worst ones possible. Even of the new flicks. We got a copy of Ted that looked so bad it looked like a 70's film that was stored poorly.

But dvd, blu-ray, even streaming from the internet. No problems. And the only ones that noticed or complained were film students.

And really. Film shouldn't become an exclusive club. If the film looks good, watch it no matter the format.

]]> By: Glass https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-20140801/#comment-146107 Mon, 23 May 2016 05:55:13 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-273877/#comment-146107 lol when did Mark Romanek become Rick Rubin?

]]> By: Xian https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-20140801/#comment-146108 Mon, 23 May 2016 05:55:13 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2014/more/uncategorized/watch-trailer-for-out-of-print-reflects-on-the-future-of-35mm-in-an-increasing-digital-age-273877/#comment-146108 Not sure why this is such a huge deal… If anything cinema has ALWAYS been a marriage between technology and art. You can record the art (production design, actors acting, etc.) on anything, so why the tears for 35mm film other than the fact that that's what most of us grew up with. Beyond that, digital recording and digital distribution do an amazing job of capturing performances and art design, while projecting the moving images in a more stable way that does exactly what celluloid did… create the impression of movement on the screen. I wonder how many tears were shed for nickelodeons or zoetropes… It's time to move on from film (I hear no one signing the blues for nitrate, btw)… the only folks unhappy with it are certain directors with a flair for the personally dramatic (Chris Nolan! Quentin Tarrantino! I'm looking at you), hipsters, and projector-repair guys.

Revival movie houses do not have to go out of business thanks to digital… Even the much hailed New Beverly Cinema now owns a digital projection system, so it's not like older movies are going to somehow vanish. If anything, there will be greater access to older films for all to see (whether VOD or in a theater with other human beings), and no longer will revival houses be chained to "out-of-print' notices, bad prints, or the cost of having to strike a new print for a decent revival showing. Just order it up from a film library or direct from the studios themselves. But enough of this "cry me a river" crap about celluloid. It had its day, now let's move on. Cinema is NOT dead.

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