Note: I made a slight alteration to this post on June 30, at the request of a Castro employee. The Castro has a new digital projector. I’m not talking about the kind you might use for conference presentations, then bring home to watch DVDs. I’m talking about the kind of big, 2K projector that’s becoming … Continue reading The Castro’s New Digital Projector
Category: Technical
The Digital and Deflated Imax Experience
Regular readers may remember my enthusiastic response to The Dark Knight in Imax. I called it "the best way to present the most spectacular of Hollywood entertainments." After seeing Star Trek in digital Imax at AMC's Emery Bay multiplex last night, I have to amend that. Real, film-based Imax, in a real Imax theater, is … Continue reading The Digital and Deflated Imax Experience
Imax and the Return of 70mm
I saw The Dark Knight in Imax on Monday (read my review). Although once skeptical, I'm now a fan of the giant format as the best way to present the most spectacular of Hollywood entertainments. Regular Bayflicks readers know that I'm a fan of 70mm. In that format's second golden age (roughly 1977-1993), the movies … Continue reading Imax and the Return of 70mm
Film is Dead! Long Live Digital Photography
As far as I’m concerned, it’s official. You can get just as good a picture shooting with a digital camera as you can with 35mm film. Maybe better. This afternoon I attended a press screening of an independent drama called Valley of the Heart’s Delight (I’ll post my review a little closer to the film’s … Continue reading Film is Dead! Long Live Digital Photography
The Best in Digital Projection
I've finally seen 4K digital projection--the cutting edge of image reproduction without film. I'm talking about an image with more than four times the resolution of the best HDTV; the technology that Imax may use to replace Imax. And my verdict: it's okay, but it didn't wow me. On Monday night I attended a special … Continue reading The Best in Digital Projection
Great Digital Projection
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 junk that tried vainly to recreate the Pixar magic, did not blow me away. The characters were family … Continue reading Great Digital Projection
Digital Projection
Movie technology is about to change--big time. And like its other big changes--sound, widescreen, home video--this one is going to be both a blessing and a curse. Within the next few years, movie theaters will go digital, not just for sound, but for projection. That's inevitable. What's still in question is how much that change … Continue reading Digital Projection
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