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Projecting 35mm motion picture film is a violent, potentially dangerous act. (Dangerous for the film. Not, thankfully,  for the humans involved, although it was before acetate film replaced nitrate more than 50 years ago.) Every minute, 90 feet of expensive artwork passes through a complicated, gear-and-sprocket machine. For the purposes [...]

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The MPAA’s movie rating system—the one that brands a film R, or G, or NC-17—is very much like democracy. It’s only redeeming feature is that it’s better than the alternative. The alternatives to democracy and the rating [...]

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If you’re a subscriber, I hope you’ve been getting the newsletter. My Web and mail host, IX WebHosting, had some trouble with one of its mail servers that was finally resolved Wednesday night. I don’t know when [...]

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Call me George Lucas if you must, but I’m ready to embrace digital projection. Chicken Little, in digital 3D at the Sony Metreon, blew me away.
Let me explain. Chicken Little, a paint-by-the-numbers studio assembly-line piece of [...]

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