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Smith wanted to use a digital camera for Clerks II, the sequel to his 1994 debut hit, but his director of photography didn't feel comfortable with the process. "A lot of directors and directors of photography are resistant to put down what they're familiar with," Smith says. Besides the shock of the new, there's the love of the old. "Most people in film have a great affection for film stock, for the medium. And they feel that moving in a digital direction is kind of leaving their history behind. It's more sentimental than anything else...
Some blame the shrinking theater audience on the narrowing gap between a movie's premiere in theaters and its debut in video stores--from six months a few years ago to about four months or less today. "With the window getting smaller and smaller," says Smith, "people don't want to leave the house. The audience is being trained that they don't have to run out to the theater to see something." For many viewers, especially adults, the kids who see the big blockbusters and the critics who review the little indie films have essentially become focus groups that...
...architecture is concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel rectangle, for decades the default mode for serious buildings, has begun to give way to the parabola, the whiplash curve and geometries so irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings...
...baseman Matt Gaski went 2-for-2 with two RBIs.Salsgiver paced the Crimson with a 2-for-4 day at the plate.FLORIDA 12, HARVARD 6For six-and-a-half innings on Friday, Harvard went tit for tat with Florida. Cole worked into the sixth inning of his standout collegiate debut, allowing four runs, all earned, and two hits.The Gators took a 4-3 lead against submarining junior reliever Jason Brown in the sixth, and the Crimson went down in the seventh without scoring a run.Then, things got ugly.Brown recorded the first two outs of the bottom of the seventh...
...First Impressions of Earth,” Manhattan’s favorite sons looked confident and sounded enormous. Dressed mostly in black, the Strokes concluded a three-night stand at the 3,000 person venue.The Strokes have clearly grown up since the release of their stripped-raw 2001 debut “Is This It.” Then, the skinny-tie-wearing partiers, barely beyond their teens, rejected million-dollar studio techniques for a bare, garage-rock sound. But the five subsequent years have witnessed a significant evolution for the band. They’ve developed a fuller sound...