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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...
...love for the adults around him. Within this internationally acclaimed South African film, Hood brilliantly finds a sympathetic, yet not syrupy sweet, way to embrace life’s tragedies and also showcase its victories. Street-hooligan-turned-gang-leader Tsotsi, played by Presley Chweneyagae in his debut role, is from a township (ghetto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa’s golden metropolis. Tsotsi (which in Afrikaans means “Thug”) bumbles out of his existentially meaningless life of violence when he steals a car and only later discovers a baby in the back...
People liked “Garden State.” People liked “Garden State” so much that Adam Rapp, in his directorial debut, “Winter Passing,” decided to remake it a mere two years after its original release. Yet Rapp deserves a measure of praise for, if not wild invention, at least generic competence. See if this story sounds familiar...
...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...