After working on television series and a documentary, Ana Kokkinos has returned to
the feature film format for the first time since 1998's Head On.
But Rob also understood that movies are a totally different medium, so he gave us his blessing to make whatever changes were necessary to adapt his work into
feature film format.
Not exact matches
Like the 3 - D Tangled, however, it also represented a leap forward in movie technology: It was the first Disney animated
feature filmed in a super-wide, 70 - millimeter
format, with a soundtrack in six - channel stereo.
Was the change of
format from a documentary to a
feature film an easy transition?
The rumored $ 250 million production
features even more scenes
filmed in the IMAX
format than 2008's The Dark Knight 82 and will once again see the return of Alfred (Michael Caine), Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), and Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman).
Special
Features: The movie has been re-mastered in a 2K
format from the original
film in order to have a better visual.
The
feature is being self - distributed in theaters exclusively this weekend, and Hauck has partnered with Kodak and Fotokem to spread the message that «
film can be affordable and accessible to independent filmmakers as both a shooting and exhibition
format.»
In Aardman's cinematic absence, others have kept the art of stop - motion alive; among this year's Animated
Feature Oscar nominees are two
films — Henry Selick's Coraline and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox — made in the painstaking frame - by - frame
format.
The mockumentary
format is at least an attempt to do something fresh in the animated
film world, but mockumentaries are only really funny because they mirror real life in an ironic, satirical fashion, often
featuring comedians employing a naturalistic ad - lib delivery.
The combo pack's DVD is not the same one sold on its own, but a disc stripped of bonus
features, save for transferrable digital copies of the
film in two
formats.
The Criterion Collection has released the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock
film in its new Blu - ray / DVD combo
format, packaged with a handful of decent bonus
features.
Disney's combo pack delivers a dynamite presentation of the
film in four
formats plus a strong hour of bonus
features including the winning original short.
Running February 19 thru March 10, along with a separate shorts program of short
films and trailers, the Music Box will be showing 14
features — some of them in prints from their original theatrical runs — that run the gamut from Oscar - winning classics to cult oddities to contemporary uses of the
format.
The upshot is a fascinating
film featuring a «less - is - more»
format reminiscent of the one employed by Errol Morris in his Oscar - winning Fog of War (2003).
I first caught the
film upon its May 2002 DVD debut, one of Disney's last animated
features to hit the
format without much fanfare.
Letterboxed at 2.37:1 and enhanced for 16x9 displays, the
film looks passable on the
format but, because of the
feature's beefy 135 - minute running time, some detail (of both the shadow and fine varieties) has obviously been sacrificed to accommodate a DTS option.
Every
film in the set
features standard mono Dolby Digital audio tracks, and though they're not likely to challenge your system with power or dynamics, they feel accurately reproduced for the
format and get the job done.
Grindhouse — Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's double
feature ode to the crappy genre
films of the 70s was one of my most enjoyable
film experiences of the last few years, but I think the
films work best in that
format, back to back with fake trailers and missing scenes.
The disc
features the IMAX presentation, with the
film letterboxed in the 2.39:1 widescreen
format with some scenes reverting to IMAX full frame and special effects spilling out of the frame and into the black bars.
Did Disney think people savvy enough to buy Emperor's New Groove on Blu - ray wouldn't notice or care that the
format that usually boasts more bonus
features gives this esteemed
film nothing more than its sequel?
Paramount's Blu - ray combo pack offers some of the finest picture and sound quality you'll find on the
format plus a solid collection of entertaining and informative bonus
features highlighted by a winning documentary, an enjoyable animal featurette, and deleted / extended scenes viewable on their own or as part of the
film.
In place of those
features, the DVD here contains redeemable digital copies of the
film in three
formats (Windows Media and iTunes for computer viewing, and a lower - res WMV file for portable devices).
The bebop idea of riffing on a melody to the extent that the melody becomes unrecognizable (with an attendant introduction of dozens of beats to the standard four - beat bar) carries through in the frenetic kineticism of series that also, by its
format, mirrors jazz bebop's compact agility (generally carried by quartet and quintet arrangements)-- making a
feature - length
film, then, a strange place for the «Cowboy Bebop» franchise to go.
The viewer can then switch back - and - forth (using the multi-angle
feature) between these two
formats and the finished
film.
But in point of fact, the movie was his fifth
feature, and with his sixth and latest
film, The Florida Project, Baker returns to his favored shooting
format of 35 mm, this time in the at once fantastical and sober environs of Orlando, Florida.
By my calculations, I went to the cinema 257 times over the last 12 months (Dec 12 - Dec 11) and saw over 270
feature - length
films for the first time (in all
formats).
Trumbull's second
feature as a director, Brainstorm, was all but orphaned by MGM and his directorial efforts since have been outside the Hollywood system, including short
films in his own high - definition Showscan process (a large - frame
film format that runs at 60 frames a second) and Back to the Future... The Ride,» a multi-media mix of
film, sound, and simulator ride.
The groundbreaking
film, a moving tale of the friendship between a boy and a giant alien robot, is
featured in both widescreen and pan-and-scan
formats, and looks great (of course, even better in the former
format).
Disney has all but given up on DVD, reducing the still widely preferred home video
format to an insignificant bonus
feature of Blu - ray, a formality for new theatrical
films, and occasionally another retail shelf to place the old - fashionedly packaged versions of deceptively identical combo packs.
Fox's Blu - ray treats the
film to an excellent presentation, a light but adequate collection of bonus
features, and the versatility of three
formats.
The combo pack's FastPlay - equipped DVD, evidently the only one this
film will be getting for the time being, furthers the unfortunate trend of fans of that still handily most popular
format getting just some scraps for bonus
features.
I didn't see the short
film that was Whiplash's original
format before watching the
feature film, but I do recall thinking before my initial screening that a director as young and inexperienced as Damien Chazelle seemed unlikely to impress me.
Rather than produce some new
features that enhance one's understanding and appreciation of both the
film and its creation, Disney has spent money on remixed song music videos, childish set - top games, and a new musical number (an addition they foolishly feel is necessary to get people to repurchase the movie on a new
format).
And it's not just limited to the
films featured below, either, because Criterion is releasing the horror classic «Rosemary's Baby» for the first time on the
format, and Universal's «Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection» is finally coming to stores.
«Singin» in the Rain: The MGM Screenplay» also
features page - accurate screenplay in text and image
formats as well for the
film that consistently tops lists as the greatest movie musical of all time.
The
film, with internet - enabled interactive
features exclusive to the Blu - ray
format - and only playable on Profile 2.0... Read more
Mark May 15th in your calendars because Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, a gallery dedicated to
film, video, sound, performance and other time - based art is now accepting
film & video submissions of all types and
formats for programs
featuring innovative and unusual works by the Bushwick area artists in conjunction with the Bushwick Open Studios 2011 Music Festival
He co-directed the 2007 documentary
film Good Copy Bad Copy and has produced several award - winning long -
format radio documentaries and cross-media
features.
During January and February S1 Artspace will host three programmes of artist
film and video
featuring work by artists based in the UK, USA, Finland, Denmark and Germany combining video
formats with 16 mm
film projection.
During January and February S1 Artspace will host three programmes of artist
film and video
featuring work from the UK, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Australia and Peru, combining video
formats with screenings in 16 mm and Super 8.
Some notable startups worthy of a mention include: Arcus Studios, producers of animated content for broadcast, short or
feature film; Recite, which transforms the
format of websites, repackaging the content by adding disability functionality; Appysnap - which completes missions with your phone's camera to win instant prizes and special offers, and Screach, an app that lets you interact in real time with any digital screen from your smart phone and rewards you for doing so.
Increasingly, contemporary artists work with cinema's scale and distribution
formats: collaborating with Hollywood actors, as artist Candice Breitz has done, or making mainstream
feature films themselves (such as Omer Fast's Remainder, 2016).
This exhibition
features more than twenty works in diverse
formats: photography, sculpture, painting, drawings,
film and video, installations.
Jeffrey Stockbridge's first solo exhibition at the gallery coincides with the publication of his book by the same name, and
features several large
format color photographs (shot with a 4 × 5
film camera) of men and women caught in the grip of drug addiction and prostitution along Kensington Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A group exhibition in video
format featuring a selection of
films and videos imagining the ways in which artists re-write history.