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The documentary would have been that much better with a more explicit focus on why the average filmgoer should care.
David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle
Side by Side
Can film survive our digital future?
2012 · 1h 39m · NOT RATED
Documentary
Directed by
Christopher Kenneally
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Side by Side
Overview
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Director and cast
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92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Keanu Reeves is a game frontman of this fact-filled, slightly chaotic doc about the rise of digital technology in film.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Fresh
A trim, informative 99-minute primer on celluloid film, which to many viewers has a warmth and feel as soothing as buttered popcorn, and the brave new world of digital cinema.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh
It's this simple: If you like movies, you need to see "Side by Side."
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Actors such as Robert Downey Jr. complain that because digital cameras can be reloaded in seconds, there is no time for performers to hang out in their trailers between takes (in protest, he urinated in jars, which he hid all over the sets of Zodiac).
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
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