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...glorious, but the company is now expanding into multiplexes without true IMAX screens, and often using digital instead of their own 70mm format. Some of our great moments: Patton, Oklahoma! in Todd-AO 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 notes in the film that he was born "in the computer lab in Urbana, Illinois." The restored Virginia Theater uses a vast, beautiful screen...
...course I miss not being able to speak. But I never debated not attending the festival. Wild horses couldn't have dragged me away, but a broken leg the previous week did the trick. My wife Chaz is now the emcee, and many of my friends among film critics help with the Q&As. I'll always treasure the night I was onstage with Werner Herzog and he dealt with audience questions until...
...blog has been singled out recently as having some of the best reader feedback of any blog on the web. But only a fraction of your posts have had to do with movies - many dealing with larger issues of metaphysics, philosophy, politics and the media industry. Given all the film writing you do on a weekly basis, how do you make the time to write on all these other topics...
...Disney movie arriving in multiplexes on April 22 features lots of animals - none of them cartoons. The ambitious new nature film called Earth chronicles a year in the life of the planet, opening in the dead of winter at the Arctic, with a mother polar bear peeking her snout out of the snow, and ending at the opposite pole, in the brief Antarctic summer amid a dance of humpback whales...
Produced by Disney's new film unit Disneynature, Earth marks the company's grand re-entry to the big-screen nature doc arena - which, as today's children are too young to recall, Disney re-invented in the 1950s with its True Life Adventures wildlife series, including six feature films and seven shorts. Before Disney, animals were often depicted on film as targets, either for collectors or, more often, for hunters. True Life Adventures went the opposite direction, anthropomorphizing wildlife and elevating their life experience to dramatic effect. (Would the creator of Mickey Mouse be expected to do anything else...