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May 28, 2008

fmx/08: Impressions

May 28th 2008 Posted to Film, Personal, Virtual Cinema

Photograph © Copyright by Reiner Pfisterer. Courtesy of fmx/08.

That’s me (center) attending the screening of Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” (2007) on the third day of this year’s fmx/08. (I already wrote about this screening in an earlier post.) After about ten minutes or so, I moved to a now vacant seat, only to realize that the 3D effect was much more impressive there. Robert Zemeckis was present himself and gave a short introduction right before the screening.

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May 10, 2008

The prospects of 3D cinema

May 10th 2008 Posted to Virtual Cinema

Photograph © Copyright by William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

While taking the train this morning, the beautiful jazz photographs by the late William P. Gottlieb came to my mind, and all of a sudden it dawned on me that by now it would basically be possible to recreate scenes from this era in 3D and make an all-CGI movie (or short) from this. This was of course influenced by my seeeing Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf” (2007), and imho, the prospects for future cinema could really be outstanding. Movies (re)created that way would (at least potentially) be even more realistic than (in the case of Bird’s, who came to my mind first) “Bird” (1988) by Clint Eastwood. And this would only be the beginning.
Btw, for fans of Bird’s, I can highly recommend the amazing documentary, “Bird Now” (1987) by Marc Huraux.

Related: “fmx/08 yesterday: ‘Beowulf’ and 3D cinema”

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