2012 · documentary
Side by Side (2012)
Directed by Christopher Kenneally1h 39m2012
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Our read: Side by Side (2012) (2012) reads as a warm, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- twisty
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