Side By Side (2012), Christopher Kenneally
4/5
A fascinating documentary about the paradigm shift from celluloid film into digital. Includes a wide range of great interviews from high ranking directors, producers and cinematographers. Keanu Reeve's acting as the interviewer and narrator is great and relatively neutral. The film presents opposing views about not only the nature of the technologies themselves, but also the viewing experience of cinema, and the benefits and losses due to the changes from film to digital. This documentary comes at the pivotal point in cinematic history, as the advancement of digital technology exceeds film quality and changes the way films are shot and produced, creating different visual styles and modes of story telling. The documentary details the differences between the technologies in an accessible and easy to understand manner. Side by Side captures the current shift in the way people experience cinema.
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