In today’s film news roundup, Seann William Scott’s “Already Gone” and “High Strung: Free Dance” get releases, and Tom Skerritt, Mira Sorvino and Chloe Coleman get cast.
Acquisition
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the Seann William Scott road drama “Already Gone,” executive produced by Keanu Reeves, Variety has learned exclusively.
Christopher Kenneally directed from his own script with Rainmaker Films producing. The film, which also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Justine Skye and Tyler Dean Flores, will be released in theaters and on demand on Aug. 16.
Flores plays a lonely teenager in Coney Island who uses his graffiti to escape from his abusive stepfather, portrayed by Scott. The teenager is in love with his stepfather’s girlfriend and they flee together to Colorado after the stepfather tries to pimp her out.
The film is produced by Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films,...
Acquisition
Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the Seann William Scott road drama “Already Gone,” executive produced by Keanu Reeves, Variety has learned exclusively.
Christopher Kenneally directed from his own script with Rainmaker Films producing. The film, which also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Justine Skye and Tyler Dean Flores, will be released in theaters and on demand on Aug. 16.
Flores plays a lonely teenager in Coney Island who uses his graffiti to escape from his abusive stepfather, portrayed by Scott. The teenager is in love with his stepfather’s girlfriend and they flee together to Colorado after the stepfather tries to pimp her out.
The film is produced by Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films,...
- 6/13/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Shiloh Fernandez has joined the cast of Green Dolphin in a key supporting role.
As previously announced, the coming-of-age film stars Justine Skye, Tyler Dean Flores and Seann William Scott.
The road movie follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (JSkye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they break down midway, Keesha and Robinson meet Edwin (Fernandez) and a new family that could turn their life around.
Written and directed by Chris Kenneally (in his narrative feature film debut), Green Dolphin is being produced...
As previously announced, the coming-of-age film stars Justine Skye, Tyler Dean Flores and Seann William Scott.
The road movie follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (JSkye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they break down midway, Keesha and Robinson meet Edwin (Fernandez) and a new family that could turn their life around.
Written and directed by Chris Kenneally (in his narrative feature film debut), Green Dolphin is being produced...
- 7/11/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Night School: Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip; The Best Man Holiday, above) will direct Night School. Kevin Hart is already set to star in the action-comedy, which revolves around misfit adults who must attend night school so they can pass the Ged exam and earn high school diplomas. The movie is scheduled for release on September 28, 2018. [Deadline] Green Dolphin: Singer and songwriter Justine Skye (above) will make her feature debut in Green Dolphin. Her character travels with a teenage boy (Tyler Dean Flores) as they seek to escape an abusive foster parent and drug dealer (Seann William Scott). Chris Kenneally wrote the original script and will direct; he previously made the documentary Side by Side. Keanu Reeves serves as one of the executive producers...
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- 6/30/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Night School: Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip; The Best Man Holiday, above) will direct Night School. Kevin Hart is already set to star in the action comedy, which revolves around misfit adults who must attend night school so they can pass the Ged exam and earn high school diplomas. The movie is scheduled for release on September 28, 2018. [Deadline] Green Dolphin: Singer and songwriter Justine Skye (above) will make her feature debut in Green Dolphin. Her character travels with a teenage boy (Tyler Dean Flores) as they seek to escape an abusive foster parent and drug-dealer (Seann William Scott). Chris Kenneally wrote the original script and will direct; he previously made the documentary Side by Side. Keanu Reeves serves as one of the executive producers...
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- 6/30/2017
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Justine Skye, Tyler Dean Flores and Seann William Scott have been cast in the coming-of-age road movie Green Dolphin, written and directed by Chris Kenneally.
Green Dolphin follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (Skye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they breakdown midway, Keesha and Robinson discover a new family that could turn their life around.
The film is produced by Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films, Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, and Shruti Ganguly of Honto88. Keanu Reeves and Clay Pecorin...
Green Dolphin follows 15-year-old Robinson (Flores) and 20-year-old Keesha (Skye) as they venture cross-country in an attempt to escape the grasp of abusive foster parent and drug-dealer Martin (Scott). When they breakdown midway, Keesha and Robinson discover a new family that could turn their life around.
The film is produced by Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films, Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, and Shruti Ganguly of Honto88. Keanu Reeves and Clay Pecorin...
- 6/29/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Read More: Exclusive: Keanu Reeves on Why Film Should Stick Around in the Digital Age "Side by Side," Keanu Reeves' 2012 documentary, chronicled the steady move away from film to digital through interviews with experts in the field. Now, three years later, Reeves has released extended interviews that didn't make it into the original film. Directed by Christopher Kenneally of the original documentary and produced by Reeves, "Side by Side Extra" Volumes 1-5 has been released by Reeves as a DVD compilation. The five volumes are a fascinating exploration of the transition from film to digital, and the transition's effects on the industry and production, from a variety of nuanced perspectives. In Volume 3, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch ("The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now") gives his perspective on the way we are moving from analog to digital. In a clip from his interview, Murch compares our old nature of...
- 7/13/2015
- by Meredith Mattlin
- Indiewire
We can always count on Martin Scorsese to support film stock. He was among the big-name directors to rally Kodak to keep film stock alive. At the time, he said, "Would anyone dream of telling young artists to throw away their paints and canvases because iPads are so much easier to carry? Of course not. In the history of motion pictures, only a minuscule percentage of the works comprising our art form was not shot on film. Everything we do in HD is an effort to recreate the look of film." In the exclusive clip from "Side by Side Extra" above, Scorsese talks about the pros and cons of shifting to digital -- what is lost and what is gained. Read More: Keanu Reeves on Why Film Should Stick Around in the Digital Age Scorsese is just one of the many luminaries featured in "Side by Side Extra," a comprehensive...
- 7/2/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Read More: Keanu Reeves on Why Film Should Stick Around in the Digital Age "I saw a kid in a stroller watching an iPad last week and I was like, 'This is kind of fucked,'" said Dunham in this clip from "Side by Side Extra," Volumes 1-5, a five-volume DVD collection of some of the most fascinating extended interviews captured during the making of "Side by Side." "I think that everybody I know has some version of attention deficit disorder," said Dunham as she waxes nostalgic for the old days when we watched movies on big screens rather than on our phones. Dunham is just one of the people included in "Side by Side Extra," a comprehensive exploration of how digital technology has transformed the way films are made. Directed by Christopher Kenneally, director of the original "Side by Side," and produced by Keanu Reeves and Justin Szlasa, "Side...
- 6/18/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Read More: Review: Keanu Reeves Kicks Ass to Avenge His Dead Dog in Satisfying 'John Wick' To some, the name Keanu Reeves conjures up images from "The Matrix," "Speed" or even "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," but for true cineastes, Reeves' most significant role yet may be as the producer of "Side by Side," the 2012 documentary about the transition from photochemical film to digital production. Now, Reeves has produced the follow-up, "Side by Side Extra," Volumes 1-5, a five-volume DVD collection of some of the most fascinating extended interviews captured during the making of "Side by Side." Directed by Christopher Kenneally, director of the original documentary and produced by Reeves and Justin Szlasa, "Side by Side Extra" is a comprehensive exploration of how digital technology has transformed the way films are made. In an interview with Indiewire, Reeves conjectured why we feel so sentimental...
- 6/11/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
★★★★☆ Christopher Kenneally's Side by Side (2012) is a timely and level-headed look at the challenge the digital process presents to century-old photochemical filmmaking. Coming at a crucial turning point for cinema and featuring interviews with some of cinema's most important contemporary directors, Side by Side functions as an essential state-of-the-nation view of filmmaking; taking stock of the past and looking to the future. By neither patronising the audience nor ascribing too much knowledge, Kenneally and interviewer Keanu Reeves strike the perfect tone, creating a film which is both informative and entertaining.
Side by Side charts the development and process of both digital and celluloid production with remarkable vigour and meticulousness, demonstrating that the technological decisions made in filmmaking are just as creative and vital as the artistic ones. By focusing on film history from a technological point of view, Side by Side offers an intriguing alternative narrative for the last...
Side by Side charts the development and process of both digital and celluloid production with remarkable vigour and meticulousness, demonstrating that the technological decisions made in filmmaking are just as creative and vital as the artistic ones. By focusing on film history from a technological point of view, Side by Side offers an intriguing alternative narrative for the last...
- 5/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Side by Side (2012), the excellent documentary from Christopher Kenneally, arrives at a crucial time for the ever-evolving medium of cinema. Featuring stellar interviews with some of the most important directors working today, including Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Steven Soderbergh, Danny Boyle and Chris Nolan, the film charts the history and processes of celluloid filmmaking and the rapid rise of digital as a cheaper alternative. It's an intelligently level-headed film which manages to be both hugely informative and thoroughly entertaining. CineVue's Craig Williams spoke with the director Kenneally, and delved into some of the issues raised in the film, and about the future of cinema as a whole.
Craig Williams: How did the film come about? Were all the directors and cinematographers happy to talk about the subject?
Christopher Kenneally: Almost everyone we reached out to in order to try and set up an interview were excited to talk...
Craig Williams: How did the film come about? Were all the directors and cinematographers happy to talk about the subject?
Christopher Kenneally: Almost everyone we reached out to in order to try and set up an interview were excited to talk...
- 5/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Les Misérables; Side by Side; Hors Satan
Although it may not be the first screen musical to feature live-on-set singing, Les Misérables (2012, Universal, 12) is certainly the most ambitious, a huge, sweeping epic that produced a tidal wave of tears when it opened in UK cinemas. According to news reports, audiences of all ages – both male and female – were weeping openly during the multitudinous dramatic climaxes, a response attributed to the immediacy and intimacy that live voice recording conjured. Certainly, the technique pays dividends, most notably in Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway's breathtakingly fragile rendition of I Dreamed a Dream, delivered in one continuous take, pitched somewhere between a whisper and a scream, between speech and song, with eye-watering results.
Yet for all its intimacy, the film does not skimp on spectacle. Nodding its head toward the lessons of Alan Parker's brilliant Evita, Tom Hooper's profoundly cinematic adaptation of a...
Although it may not be the first screen musical to feature live-on-set singing, Les Misérables (2012, Universal, 12) is certainly the most ambitious, a huge, sweeping epic that produced a tidal wave of tears when it opened in UK cinemas. According to news reports, audiences of all ages – both male and female – were weeping openly during the multitudinous dramatic climaxes, a response attributed to the immediacy and intimacy that live voice recording conjured. Certainly, the technique pays dividends, most notably in Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway's breathtakingly fragile rendition of I Dreamed a Dream, delivered in one continuous take, pitched somewhere between a whisper and a scream, between speech and song, with eye-watering results.
Yet for all its intimacy, the film does not skimp on spectacle. Nodding its head toward the lessons of Alan Parker's brilliant Evita, Tom Hooper's profoundly cinematic adaptation of a...
- 5/13/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Join American-Canadian actor Keanu Reeves and a host of high profile directors for Christopher Kenneally's well-reviewed documentary Side by Side (2012), a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of the past, present and future of filmmaking and into a masterclass on the magic of the movies. To celebrate the long-awaited DVD release of Kenneally's must-see doc, we've kindly been provided with Three DVD copies of Side by Side to give away to our valued readers, courtesy of UK distributor Axiom Films. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
For over 100 years, photo chemical film has been the standard format used to capture, develop, project and store movie images. Now, digital technology is challenging film's place as the gold standard for quality and longevity. With the aid of some of...
For over 100 years, photo chemical film has been the standard format used to capture, develop, project and store movie images. Now, digital technology is challenging film's place as the gold standard for quality and longevity. With the aid of some of...
- 5/10/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Here's an interesting little anecdote for any fans of Taxi Driver out there: Martin Scorsese was so keen to get the film made that he considered shooting on black-and-white video when he had trouble raising the money to film on, er, film, as he reveals in this deleted scene from filmmaking documentary Side By Side. brightcove.createExperiences();It's hard to imagine the film in black-and-white now, given how far its sunk into the fabric of our collective imagination, but perhaps the result could have been a little like Scorsese's slightly later classic, Raging Bull. The only problem would be that shooting on '70s video stock might have left us with a rather grainier version of the drama that might not have survived as well.Side By Side, of course, is the recent documentary that quizzes top directors and cinematographers on their preferences in film or digital filmmaking to examine...
- 5/3/2013
- EmpireOnline
Side By Side | A Good Day To Die Hard | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God | Beautiful Creatures | This Is 40 | For Ellen | Run For Your Wife | Reign Of Assassins | Sammy's Great Escape | Andrea Bocelli: Love In Portofino | Madame De… | Murder 3
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
Side By Side (15)
(Christopher Kenneally, 2012, Us) 99 mins
Celluloid versus digital film-making – hardly a blockbuster proposition, but this surprisingly fascinating documentary makes you think twice about how movies are made, and seen. It also gives you a rare audience with the top technicians and film-makers out there (Scorsese, Cameron, Lucas, Nolan, Von Trier, Lynch, etc), while host Keanu Reeves keeps things informal and accessible.
A Good Day To Die Hard (12A)
(John Moore, 2013, Us) Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney. 98 mins.
Old dog Willis does no new tricks in this tiresomely cacophonous action movie, which brings in new pup Courtney for a father-son ass-kicking.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God...
- 2/16/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Why I made a documentary about the differences - and affinities - between digital and celluloid
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I grew up with film. I understand how it can make you feel nostalgic. It stands for a halcyon past, like memories of your mother's cooking. Celluloid is a fantastic, romantic medium. But technology is evolving fast, and in exciting ways. And that's the reason I wanted to produce and present Side by Side, a documentary that asks how film-making is changing in the digital age.
The film tracks the losses and gains of Hollywood's move to digital cinema. Over a year between 2010 and 2011 director Chris Kenneally and I spoke to dozens of film-makers about working in an industry that is in the process of reinventing itself. We heard how digital had enabled the imagination of directors such as James Cameron, David Fincher and David Lynch – helping them...
Reading on a mobile? Watch here
I grew up with film. I understand how it can make you feel nostalgic. It stands for a halcyon past, like memories of your mother's cooking. Celluloid is a fantastic, romantic medium. But technology is evolving fast, and in exciting ways. And that's the reason I wanted to produce and present Side by Side, a documentary that asks how film-making is changing in the digital age.
The film tracks the losses and gains of Hollywood's move to digital cinema. Over a year between 2010 and 2011 director Chris Kenneally and I spoke to dozens of film-makers about working in an industry that is in the process of reinventing itself. We heard how digital had enabled the imagination of directors such as James Cameron, David Fincher and David Lynch – helping them...
- 2/15/2013
- by Keanu Reeves
- The Guardian - Film News
Keanu Reeves may be best known for his starring roles in The Matrix, Speed and Point Break, but this week he's stepping behind the camera to produce and present Side by Side, a fascinating documentary that delves into the filmmaking process and looks at how digital has overtaken the photochemical process.
Reeves and writer/director Christopher Kenneally have assembled a who's who of filmmaking talent - from directors such as James Cameron and Lars von Trier, to studio heads and tech pioneers working designing the latest HD cameras - in order to tell their story. Digital Spy got on the phone with Reeve to discuss Side by Side, his directorial debut Man of Tai Chi and the potential for a 3D re-release of The Matrix...
Which was the first film you worked on where you saw that digital technology was clipping at the heels of the traditional photochemical process?
"I...
Reeves and writer/director Christopher Kenneally have assembled a who's who of filmmaking talent - from directors such as James Cameron and Lars von Trier, to studio heads and tech pioneers working designing the latest HD cameras - in order to tell their story. Digital Spy got on the phone with Reeve to discuss Side by Side, his directorial debut Man of Tai Chi and the potential for a 3D re-release of The Matrix...
Which was the first film you worked on where you saw that digital technology was clipping at the heels of the traditional photochemical process?
"I...
- 2/14/2013
- Digital Spy
Director: Christopher Kenneally; Screenwriter: Christopher Kenneally; Starring: Keanu Reeves, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, George Lucas, David Lynch, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh; Running time 99 mins; Certificate: 15
Keanu Reeves produces, narrates and acts as on-camera interview in Chris Kenneally's fascinating new documentary about Hollywood's transition into the digital age. Years on the acting A-list has primed the one-time Neo well for Side by Side; he's able to call on the cream of the movie industry's directors, cinematographers, producers and camera producers to document the move from celluloid to digital.
Side by Side assembles a cast of talking heads - including digital evangelists George Lucas, James Cameron and David Fincher, and those reluctant to convert such as Christopher Nolan and his director of photography Wally Pfister - to deconstruct the entire technical process, workflow and history of the business.
The documentary examines everything from image capture, editing, delivery,...
Keanu Reeves produces, narrates and acts as on-camera interview in Chris Kenneally's fascinating new documentary about Hollywood's transition into the digital age. Years on the acting A-list has primed the one-time Neo well for Side by Side; he's able to call on the cream of the movie industry's directors, cinematographers, producers and camera producers to document the move from celluloid to digital.
Side by Side assembles a cast of talking heads - including digital evangelists George Lucas, James Cameron and David Fincher, and those reluctant to convert such as Christopher Nolan and his director of photography Wally Pfister - to deconstruct the entire technical process, workflow and history of the business.
The documentary examines everything from image capture, editing, delivery,...
- 2/11/2013
- Digital Spy
Side By Side
Featuring: Keanu Reeves, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan | Directed by Chris Kenneally
Side by Side is a documentary by Chris Kenneally comparing and contrasting the relative merits and disadvantages of recording movies on traditional film and shooting digitally. It is presented, slightly surprisingly, by an animated and enthusiastic Keanu Reeves and features a veritable who’s who of living film directors, as well as an army of cinematographers, actors, studio bigwigs and technicians. It also features a large amount of facial hair, not least on Reeves himself. Evidently the film was shot over a long period of time judging by the growth and retraction of our genial host’s facial fuzz from interview to interview.
If this sounds a little dry, Reeve’s beard aside, you need not worry; the film vs. digital debate proves to be good backdrop for a wider-reaching history of movie-making in general,...
Featuring: Keanu Reeves, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan | Directed by Chris Kenneally
Side by Side is a documentary by Chris Kenneally comparing and contrasting the relative merits and disadvantages of recording movies on traditional film and shooting digitally. It is presented, slightly surprisingly, by an animated and enthusiastic Keanu Reeves and features a veritable who’s who of living film directors, as well as an army of cinematographers, actors, studio bigwigs and technicians. It also features a large amount of facial hair, not least on Reeves himself. Evidently the film was shot over a long period of time judging by the growth and retraction of our genial host’s facial fuzz from interview to interview.
If this sounds a little dry, Reeve’s beard aside, you need not worry; the film vs. digital debate proves to be good backdrop for a wider-reaching history of movie-making in general,...
- 2/8/2013
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
‘Side by Side’ – Keanu Reeves eases into the specifics of photochemical film shooting and exhibition
Side By Side
Written by Christopher Kenneally
Directed by Christopher Kenneally
USA, 2012
A reasonably comprehensive primer on the rise of digital film and its implications on every facet of filmmaking, exhibition, and conservation, Side by Side manages to corral enough of the film world’s most outspoken filmmakers, as well as a less-familiar but equally influential collection of editors, DPs, colorists, effects supervisors, and industry types, that its attempt to summarize such a massive issue mostly holds together while only occasionally feeling like an infomercial for contemporary moviegoing.
Buoyed by a balance of film cips, archival footage, and new interviews, producer and host Keanu Reeves eases into the specifics of photochemical film shooting and exhibition, carefully laying out the joys and difficulties of a science that remained more or less unchanged for a century, before chronicling the evolution of digital film, from its invention to its first uses in serious filmmaking.
Written by Christopher Kenneally
Directed by Christopher Kenneally
USA, 2012
A reasonably comprehensive primer on the rise of digital film and its implications on every facet of filmmaking, exhibition, and conservation, Side by Side manages to corral enough of the film world’s most outspoken filmmakers, as well as a less-familiar but equally influential collection of editors, DPs, colorists, effects supervisors, and industry types, that its attempt to summarize such a massive issue mostly holds together while only occasionally feeling like an infomercial for contemporary moviegoing.
Buoyed by a balance of film cips, archival footage, and new interviews, producer and host Keanu Reeves eases into the specifics of photochemical film shooting and exhibition, carefully laying out the joys and difficulties of a science that remained more or less unchanged for a century, before chronicling the evolution of digital film, from its invention to its first uses in serious filmmaking.
- 2/8/2013
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Smart, wide-ranging, and informative, "Side by Side" may be a postcard from the future of movies, but it's still intoxicated by the past. Its dreamiest moment comes at the outset, a montage of clips from the first century of cinema, from Eadweard Muybridge's horses to Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing." (Multiple clips from the film below.) There's something elegiac about director Chris Kenneally's documentary history of our digital age (on DVD and Blu-ray February 5). In celebrating the possibilities of chips and pixels, of CGI and Di coloring, of the handheld, the quick-and-dirty, the cost-effective, "Side by Side" also marks the passing of celluloid. I, too, will mourn "the voodoo of it," as director David Fincher says of cinematographers in that bygone age, even as I get used to the idea that there is no turning back. Running together threads of technological, aesthetic, and economic change, "Side by.
- 2/5/2013
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is a drummer, guitarist, singer, and now, a filmmaker – is there anything the guy can’t do? Apparently not, if his documentary about one of the music landscape’s most iconic fountains of creativity, one of the best-received films out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is any indication.
A love letter to Grohl’s old stomping ground, the titular California-based recording studio which gave birth to Nirvana’s seminal album Nevermind, Sound City is an intimate examination of both the ridiculous number of artists it allowed to flourish – Metallica, Neil Young, Trent Reznor, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Manilow and countless others – and also the less-famous but equally important faces behind the studio glass; the studio managers, technicians and producers who were instrumental in getting so many popular works made. Leaving no stone unturned, Grohl manages to...
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is a drummer, guitarist, singer, and now, a filmmaker – is there anything the guy can’t do? Apparently not, if his documentary about one of the music landscape’s most iconic fountains of creativity, one of the best-received films out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is any indication.
A love letter to Grohl’s old stomping ground, the titular California-based recording studio which gave birth to Nirvana’s seminal album Nevermind, Sound City is an intimate examination of both the ridiculous number of artists it allowed to flourish – Metallica, Neil Young, Trent Reznor, Reo Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Fleetwood Mac, Barry Manilow and countless others – and also the less-famous but equally important faces behind the studio glass; the studio managers, technicians and producers who were instrumental in getting so many popular works made. Leaving no stone unturned, Grohl manages to...
- 2/3/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Welcome to another weekly preview of upcoming Blu-Ray releases! In this week’s edition, Flight makes a good case for taking the train to your next vacation destination, Here Comes the Boom hits store shelves with a – well with a boom I guess, and a beloved family classic finally gets a Blu-Ray release.
Ready for this week’s Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.
Flight
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, and Melissa Leo.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
An American drama film from Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis. It was well received by critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor (for the film’s star Denzel Washington) and Best Original Screenplay.
Plot: An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunction reveals something troubling.
My Thoughts: I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
Ready for this week’s Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.
Flight
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, and Melissa Leo.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
An American drama film from Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis. It was well received by critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor (for the film’s star Denzel Washington) and Best Original Screenplay.
Plot: An airline pilot saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation into the malfunction reveals something troubling.
My Thoughts: I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
- 2/2/2013
- by C.P. Howells
- We Got This Covered
As a public service, I must open this week's column with a follow-up to the opening of last week's column: Despite its parade of stars, Movie 43 sucks. I know you're shocked.
Most of this week's new releases look to be no better, with the possible exception of Warm Bodies, which has garnered some positive reviews. Once again, I encourage lovers of great cinema to avoid their local multiplexes in favor of some interesting special screenings at smaller venues.
Speaking of which, the most important film industry trend in recent years is the transition from film to digital production and exhibition. Anyone interested in this transition shouldn't miss Side by Side, Christopher Kenneally's documentary about the digital future of movies. Chock-full of interviews with famous filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to George Lucas to David Lynch, Side by Side takes a balanced look at the film and digital formats, intending...
Most of this week's new releases look to be no better, with the possible exception of Warm Bodies, which has garnered some positive reviews. Once again, I encourage lovers of great cinema to avoid their local multiplexes in favor of some interesting special screenings at smaller venues.
Speaking of which, the most important film industry trend in recent years is the transition from film to digital production and exhibition. Anyone interested in this transition shouldn't miss Side by Side, Christopher Kenneally's documentary about the digital future of movies. Chock-full of interviews with famous filmmakers from Martin Scorsese to George Lucas to David Lynch, Side by Side takes a balanced look at the film and digital formats, intending...
- 2/1/2013
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 5, 2013
Price: DVD $26.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Tribeca Film/New Video/Cinedigm
Keanu Reeves explores the growth of digital cinema in Side by Side.
In the 2012 documentary film Side by Side, Keanu Reeves explores the recent technological developments of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking on the industry.
Reeves takes on the subject via interviews with such leading Hollywood directors as James Cameron (Avatar), David Fincher (The Social Network), David Lynch (Blue Velvet), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Steven Soderbergh (Contagion), George Lucas (Star Wars), and others. Interviews are also conducted with a number of cinematographers, editors, special-effects masters and visual artists as they provide insights on digital cinema and how it has revolutionized the film business.
Through the use of archival footage and video clips from such noted films as Lawrence of Arabia and Metropolis, Side by Side examines the differences between 35mm film and digital video and...
Price: DVD $26.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Tribeca Film/New Video/Cinedigm
Keanu Reeves explores the growth of digital cinema in Side by Side.
In the 2012 documentary film Side by Side, Keanu Reeves explores the recent technological developments of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking on the industry.
Reeves takes on the subject via interviews with such leading Hollywood directors as James Cameron (Avatar), David Fincher (The Social Network), David Lynch (Blue Velvet), Martin Scorsese (Hugo), Steven Soderbergh (Contagion), George Lucas (Star Wars), and others. Interviews are also conducted with a number of cinematographers, editors, special-effects masters and visual artists as they provide insights on digital cinema and how it has revolutionized the film business.
Through the use of archival footage and video clips from such noted films as Lawrence of Arabia and Metropolis, Side by Side examines the differences between 35mm film and digital video and...
- 1/23/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
New Delhi, Jan 7: "Side by Side", the Keanu Reeves produced and Christopher Kenneally directed documentary, will be the opening film at the 0110 International Digital Film Festival 2013 (Iddf 2013).
This was announced Monday by organisers of the festival, which is widely see as the destination for New Wave Cinema in India.
The organisers also announced an advisory panel including Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap, Q (Qaushik Mukherjee - director of "Gandu"), Roysten Able and renowned Hollywood producer Jason Kilot.
The jury would include Kabir Khan and Sudhir Mishra.
"The festival is not limited to competing and.
This was announced Monday by organisers of the festival, which is widely see as the destination for New Wave Cinema in India.
The organisers also announced an advisory panel including Sudhir Mishra, Anurag Kashyap, Q (Qaushik Mukherjee - director of "Gandu"), Roysten Able and renowned Hollywood producer Jason Kilot.
The jury would include Kabir Khan and Sudhir Mishra.
"The festival is not limited to competing and.
- 1/7/2013
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
I don't typically see many documentaries every year, but since becoming a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) it has become far easier (and necessary) to see more of them over the last two years. One, I have to nominate and vote on the category for the Critics' Choice Awards and two, I get more screeners each year than I used to. This year I've watched 14 documentaries and have yet only seen seven of the 15 documentaries up for Best Documentary at the 2013 Oscars. Of those seven, only one makes my top five of 2012. Outside of the five I list below, virtually all of the documentaries I watched this year were quite great, but seeing how I only saw 14, it didn't make sense to do a top ten. So if you're looking for some additional docs to watch other than my top five, also consider Bad 25 (which would...
- 12/18/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Poland's annual cinematography festival, Plus Camerimage, is currently celebrating its 20th year and ComingSoon.net is on location all this week covering from the city of Bydgoszcz. Today, we're bringing you a special interview with actor Keanu Reeves, the host of the recent documentary Side By Side . Along with by director, Chris Kenneally and producer Justin Szlas, Reeves discusses the trio's look at the changing landscape of filmmaking and the pros and cons of entering an increasingly digital world. Begun at Camerimage two years ago, Side By Side boasts interviews with filmmakers like James Cameron, David Fincher, George Lucas, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Danny Boyle and many more. Reeves, a budding director himself, also talks a bit about his debut...
- 11/27/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Whether you know it or not, there's a revolution going on in Hollywood, right in front of your eyes. With shooting on film being notoriously expensive and (often) backbreakingly laborious, the use of digital technology is on the rise, transforming the way we make - and view - movies. The Tribeca Film documentary Side by Side presents the central issues in the film vs. digital debate in intelligent and dramatic fashion: The future of film as a medium is very much in doubt. Led in discussion by producer Keanu Reeves, renowned cinematographers, actors, directors, and post-production professionals - including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, James Cameron, and David Fincher - share their insights into and misgivings about this pivotal time in cinema history. Reeves and director Chris Kenneally gathered such a wide array of information and opinions from the experts that they could not possibly use all of their material in a single documentary.
- 9/27/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Keanu Reeves Goes ‘Side By Side’ In Poland Plus Cameraimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography that takes place in Poland, has added Keanu Reeves’ documentary Side By Side as its opening film. The film’s director, Chris Kenneally along with cinematographer Chris Cassidy, producer Justin Szlasa and producer/host Keanu Reeves will attend the screening in Bydgoszcz and talk about the film. Side By Side includes interviews with filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, George Lucas and martin Scorsese who discuss pros and cons of 35mm vs. digital. It was previously announced that David Lynch will receive the fest’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing. Fest runs Nov. 24 to Dec. 1. 007 Bond Tour Kicks Off Monday In The UK James Bond is set to travel the UK to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the franchise. Beginning Monday, Roger Moore and other Bond film stars will appear at...
- 9/14/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Chicago – We are at the tipping point of a technology that has been used for a hundred years to capture the moving image. Shooting on film is going away as more and more filmmakers use digital technology to tell their stories. How does this change the art form? Is it a creative new landscape or the death of something important? Keanu Reeves guides us through this minefield of opinions in the excellent “Side by Side,” opening this weekend at the Siskel Film Center and now playing On Demand.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The first thing one notices about “Side by Side” is the pedigree of the interview subjects chosen to discuss this incredibly interesting topic — James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Rodriguez…the list goes on and on. How the digital revolution has impacted the art of film, positively and negatively, is clearly a...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The first thing one notices about “Side by Side” is the pedigree of the interview subjects chosen to discuss this incredibly interesting topic — James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Rodriguez…the list goes on and on. How the digital revolution has impacted the art of film, positively and negatively, is clearly a...
- 9/13/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In Side by Side, Christopher Kenneally takes on the ever-contentious topic of 35mm film versus digital video by exploring the development of each and comparing them, as the title says, side by side. The movie opens with an air of mourning for the death of film, and continues on to examine everything from when Arriflex stopped investing in film technology to when the first Red camera was released, and beyond. But perhaps most interestingly, Side by Side examines this subject from the standpoint of film-making careers and how they have been affected—explaining how positions as diverse as editor, cinematographer, film...
- 9/5/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Want to hear more takes on the film vs. digital debate? We have almost a month's worth of videos - and counting - in the Side Swipes archive. Side By Side is now playing on nationwide VOD, iTunes, Amazon and Vudu. The film is now in theaters in La, Boston, New York, and Seattle; more cities will follow in the weeks to come. Find out how and where you can watch it! Like Side By Side on Facebook and follow the film on Twitter @SideBySideMovie. In Theaters Boston, Ma: Mfa Boston - Now Playing New York, NY: Quad Cinema - Now Playing Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the 7:00 pm screenings on August 31 and September 1. New York, NY: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - Now Playing Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the screenings on Friday (8/31) at 8:00 pm and Saturday (9/1) at 8:45 pm.
- 9/1/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Want to hear more takes on the film vs. digital debate? We have almost a month's worth of videos - and counting - in the Side Swipes archive. Side By Side is now playing on nationwide VOD, iTunes, Amazon and Vudu. The film is now in theaters in La, Boston, New York, and Seattle; more cities will follow in the weeks to come. Find out how and where you can watch it! Like Side By Side on Facebook and follow the film on Twitter @SideBySideMovie. In Theaters Boston, Ma: Mfa Boston - Now Playing New York, NY: Quad Cinema - Now Playing Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the 7:00 pm screenings on August 31 and September 1. New York, NY: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - Now Playing Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the screenings on Friday (8/31) at 8:00 pm and Saturday (9/1) at 8:45 pm.
- 8/31/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Want to hear more takes on the film vs. digital debate? We have almost a month's worth of videos - and counting - in the Side Swipes archive. Side By Side is now playing on nationwide VOD, iTunes, Amazon and Vudu. The film is now in theaters in La and Boston, and opens tomorrow in NYC; more cities will follow in the weeks to come. Find out how and where you can watch it! Like Side By Side on Facebook and follow the film on Twitter @SideBySideMovie. In Theaters Los Angeles, CA: Laemmle NoHo 7 - Now Playing Boston, Ma: Mfa Boston - Now Playing New York, NY: Quad Cinema - August 31 Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the 7:00 pm screenings on August 31 and September 1. New York, NY: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - August 31 Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the...
- 8/30/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
As a director, Christopher Kenneally only has one other feature-length documentary to his name. It’s likely you’ve never even heard his name up until now, but the up-and-coming filmmaker has already worked with Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, James Cameron, George Lucas, Lars von Trier and the Wachowskis — among a few other Oscar winners.
It’s all thanks to Side By Side, an engaging new documentary focused on the battle between film and digital in today’s modern cinematic landscape. Kenneally was able to nab all these names through the help of Keanu Reeves, the film’s producer, interviewer and “host,” who guides us through this complicated subject with pit stops by some of the medium’s most successful artists.
How did your partnership with Keanu Reeves form?
Christopher Kenneally: Keanu Reeves and I were working on a movie called Henry’s Crime.
It’s all thanks to Side By Side, an engaging new documentary focused on the battle between film and digital in today’s modern cinematic landscape. Kenneally was able to nab all these names through the help of Keanu Reeves, the film’s producer, interviewer and “host,” who guides us through this complicated subject with pit stops by some of the medium’s most successful artists.
How did your partnership with Keanu Reeves form?
Christopher Kenneally: Keanu Reeves and I were working on a movie called Henry’s Crime.
- 8/29/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Want to hear more sides of the film vs. digital debate? We have a month's worth of videos - and counting - in the Side Swipes archive. Side By Side is now playing on nationwide VOD, iTunes, Amazon and Vudu. The film is now in theaters in La and Boston, and opens this Friday in NYC; more cities will follow in the weeks to come. Find out how and where you can watch it! Like Side By Side on Facebook and follow the film on Twitter @SideBySideMovie. In Theaters Los Angeles, CA: Laemmle NoHo 7 - Now Playing Boston, Ma: Mfa Boston - Now Playing New York, NY: Quad Cinema - August 31 Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the 7:00 pm screenings on August 31 and September 1. New York, NY: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - August 31 Note: Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the...
- 8/29/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
The buzz surrounding Side By Side grew deafening after its nationwide release on VOD and digital platforms on August 22. Increasing numbers of movie lovers across the country are taking advantage of the opportunity to watch this fascinating documentary that chronicles 'the science, art and impact of digital cinema.' What's more, Side by Side reached the coveted iTunes top 10 documentaries list over the weekend, landing in the number 2 position. And the critics agree! David Poland of Movie City News describes Side By Side as 'an absolute Must-see for anyone who loves movies.' The Hollywood Reporter adds that the film is 'an engrossing and detailed crash course on the digital revolution.' Directed by Chris Kenneally and produced by Keanu Reeves, Side By Side explores the complicated and often divisive dialogue arising from the inevitable transition from traditional filmmaking methods to the use of the cutting-edge techniques available ...
- 8/29/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Cinema is built upon smoke and mirrors, the promise that if the audience suspends their disbelief, they will be transported to a more interesting realm. Chris Kenneally and Keanu Reeves's documentary Side By Side (now on VOD) is a testament to this element of trickery integral to cinema - by exploring the divide between the celluloid and digital formats, and questioning what is lost and gained in the process of that transition, the film reveals how cinema is at a moment where it is losing one key format, and attempting to replace it with another, despite the fact that this task is impossible. The events of the past month in the larger film world point to a similar idea of loss and recreation at the heart of cinema. We lost one of our greatest filmmakers, the master of the essay film, Chris Marker, the same week that the BFI's...
- 8/23/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Produced by Keanu Reeves and directed by Chris Kenneally, Side By Side is a riveting, entertaining new documentary about the current - and increasingly widespread - shift in filmmaking technology. As directors and cinematographers (in many cases) abandon traditional celluloid filmmaking in favor of rapidly developing digital tools, what, if anything, are we losing in the process? Are fears that movies will devolve in quality well founded? Or are these worries much ado about nothing? Is it a moot point anyway, given the foregone conclusions of the digital revolution? These are the sorts of fascinating, divisive questions Side By Side explores via in-depth interviews with professionals involved in all stages of the filmmaking process. From pioneering directors like James Cameron and Martin Scorsese to artistic innovators like Christopher Nolan and Lena Dunham, from cinematographers like Wally Pfister and Michael Chapman to visual effects standouts like Dennis Muren and Adam Valdez (and so,...
- 8/22/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
I'm not really sure what's left to be said in the great film vs. digital debate, but if nothing else, Christopher Kenneally's "Side by Side" brings things to a head nicely as it represents the layman's way into the discussion. These things always reach broader consideration last and no film, to date, has been as thorough and definitive as this. A year after "Hugo" brought concepts of film preservation into a narrative fold and fed a meta fire throughout a season very much about Hollywood and the history of cinema, the debate rages on. That film's director, Martin Scorsese, the great protector of...
- 8/18/2012
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Title: Side by Side Director: Chris Kenneally Featuring: Keanu Reeves, Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, Anne Coates, Danny Boyle, Lars Von Trier, Walter Murch, John Malkovich, Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig Cinema has always been marked by the push and pull between art, commerce and technology, but perhaps never more so than with the advent of digital filmmaking, which stands poised to sweep aside more than a century of celluloid technique and history. Directed by Chris Kenneally and anchored by interviewer-producer Keanu Reeves, the superlative new documentary “Side by Side” seeks to explore this revolution through the eyes of some [ Read More ]...
- 8/18/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
This weekend we get the perfect film to close out the summer, an all-star bash with many of your favorites from the last few decades of the movies. No, not the Expendables sequel. This is something with even more famous names than that. It's the latest from Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, George Lucas, Andy and Lana Wachowski, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, David Fincher, Danny Boyle, Steven Soderbergh, Lars von Trier, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, Joel Schumacher and Lena Dunham. Titled Side by Side, it's the new documentary from Christopher Kenneally (Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating) and it's produced, narrated and hosted by actor Keanu Reeves. What kind of nonfiction topic could gather all these experts and artists together? Obviously...
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- 8/17/2012
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Film vs. digital doc obscures message with overt Hollywood deference
From the opening Oscar broadcast-style montage of iconic movie clips (apparently it is only Hollywood, and not international cinema, that was able to “inspire us, thrill us, and capture our imagination”), Chris Kenneally’s documentary Side by Side, which weighs the pros and cons of traditional photochemical filmmaking against fast-encroaching digital image capture and projection, indulges Hollywood pretense to the point that a potentially revealing snapshot of a great art form in transition becomes overwhelmed by industry self-congratulation. The movie is made by insiders, for insiders; it pretends to be addressed to the general populace (narrator Keanu Reeves “educates” the viewer, PSA-style, as to what the “job” of the cinematographer is) only as a ploy to indulge the big name participants’ ego-stroking fantasy that everyday American toilers could care a lick about their “workflow” problems.
Interviewer/narrator Reeves is enthusiastic...
From the opening Oscar broadcast-style montage of iconic movie clips (apparently it is only Hollywood, and not international cinema, that was able to “inspire us, thrill us, and capture our imagination”), Chris Kenneally’s documentary Side by Side, which weighs the pros and cons of traditional photochemical filmmaking against fast-encroaching digital image capture and projection, indulges Hollywood pretense to the point that a potentially revealing snapshot of a great art form in transition becomes overwhelmed by industry self-congratulation. The movie is made by insiders, for insiders; it pretends to be addressed to the general populace (narrator Keanu Reeves “educates” the viewer, PSA-style, as to what the “job” of the cinematographer is) only as a ploy to indulge the big name participants’ ego-stroking fantasy that everyday American toilers could care a lick about their “workflow” problems.
Interviewer/narrator Reeves is enthusiastic...
- 8/17/2012
- by Ryan Brown
- IONCINEMA.com
I never expected Keanu Reeves to be my guide to the history of digital filmmaking, but that’s the role he plays as producer and host of the vital documentary Side by Side, written and directed by Chris Kenneally. It opens theatrically today in Los Angeles, with New York and other cities to follow. It will also be available On Demand next week. Reeves shares the screen with such formidable filmmakers as George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, and Danny Boyle, to name just a few marquee names, along with product developers and executives, film archivists, and many of the world’s leading cinematographers. I anticipated a heated...
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- 8/17/2012
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Over the past few decades, film’s iron-clad grip on the motion industry has gradually been chipped away by emerging digital technology. Yet it hasn’t necessarily been a smooth transition. Traditional celluloid film has gone largely unchanged as a medium for a century and has been the canvas for works from Casablanca and Apocalypse Now to this summer’s blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises. As the saying goes: old habits die hard. In this case, for good reason, a film produces a picture quality, texture, and dynamic range unparalleled by digital.
But digital technology has continued to make leaps and bounds in terms of stacking up to film’s digital qualities while going far beyond its predecessor in terms of versatility, cost, and accessibility. Side by Side is an eye-opening documentary that looks at the art of filmmaking—the dominant visual form of expression in our time—from the perspectives of the masters,...
But digital technology has continued to make leaps and bounds in terms of stacking up to film’s digital qualities while going far beyond its predecessor in terms of versatility, cost, and accessibility. Side by Side is an eye-opening documentary that looks at the art of filmmaking—the dominant visual form of expression in our time—from the perspectives of the masters,...
- 8/16/2012
- by Billy Brennan
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
There's no shortage of films opening this weekend, but many will be disappointments if you go in with high expectations. The safest bet is Chris Kenneally's doc "Side by Side," which is both a treat for film buffs and a primer for anyone looking to get behind a camera in today's fast-changing digital landscape. Also getting strong reviews is Craig Zobel's Sundance entry "Compliance," which is suitably disturbing given the true story behind it, but its real-life grittiness is undermined by casting an actress who looks like a stripper to play a small town teenage girl. "The Awakening," while it certainly has its flaws, marks a cinematically satisfying debut from director Nick Murphy. Starring Rebecca Hall and the "The Wire"'s Dominic West, the film is gorgeously lensed (on 35mm) in stunning texturaly period settings by Eduard Grau ("A Single Man"). David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" is a...
- 8/16/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
With "Side by Side," producer/interviewer Keanu Reeves and director Chris Kenneally decided to document the film industry's radical change and transformation. "We had questions that we wanted answers to and decided to go out and ask the great artists and technicians involved in moviemaking," says Kennealy. So he and Reeves interviewed the likes of David Fincher, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Wally Pfister, David Lynch, Danny Boyle and Lena Dunham, and each argues the case for film and/or digital cinema. The film also serves as an informative history of film technology. The filmmakers wanted to show "how the art and science both pushed each other forward," says Kenneally, and it does exactly that in 99 entertaining minutes. The film seeks to give audiences a clearer understanding of what exactly goes into making a film, and fuel their excitement for both watching and discussing the medium -- be it film or digital.
- 8/16/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Christopher Kenneally‘s Side by Side is a comprehensive and diplomatic documentary about the ongoing combat between two feisty fields of filmmaking — the one, photochemical film, having been around since the medium’s invention, and the other, digital, still flexing its potential wings. The film, narrated by the calm voice of Keanu Reeves, premiered to open arms at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, and figuring out the reason for that is about as easy as figuring out why a midnight showing of The Avengers would play like gangbusters to a 13-year-old kid in a Hulk outfit.
That’s not to say there isn’t value in the process, because Side by Side is a smart movie, and it did teach me things. But the chief enjoyment is, without a doubt, the robust lineup of icons Reeves has been afforded the opportunity to sit down with. Because as informative as...
That’s not to say there isn’t value in the process, because Side by Side is a smart movie, and it did teach me things. But the chief enjoyment is, without a doubt, the robust lineup of icons Reeves has been afforded the opportunity to sit down with. Because as informative as...
- 8/15/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
All this month, Tribeca has been hosting a monthlong conversation around the upcoming documentary release Side By Side, which chronicles 'the science, art and impact of digital cinema.' Produced by Keanu Reeves and directed by Chris Kenneally, Side by Side presents in-depth interviews with directors and cinematographers in an effort to explore the complex and divisive conversation currently taking place around the transition from traditional filmmaking to the new digital tools and techniques. Side by Side opens at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in Los Angeles this Friday, August 17. Producer Keanu Reeves and director Chris Kenneally will participate in Q and As after the 7:10 pm Quad screenings on Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18. Click for tickets. On August 23, Bostonians can catch Side by Side at the Mfa Boston, and the film will open in New York City at the Quad Cinema and at Seattle's Grand Illusion Cinema on ...
- 8/15/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
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