Quick rumination today—not a lengthy dissertation!
Yesterday, I came across this article about Quentin Tarantino’s statement at Cannes that digital projection is the death of cinema (I’d heard him say something similar on a recent episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson). It got me thinking about the general subject of digital filmmaking: All the major studios and many prominent filmmakers (Robert Rodriguez, age 46; Steven Soderbergh, 51; James Cameron, 60) have embraced digital video over traditional film stock; several prominent directors, however, still prefer to shoot on celluloid: Christopher Nolan (44); Tarantino (51); Steven Spielberg (67), who also still edits on film! I was compelled to post a response to the piece, which I have reproduced here with a few amendments:
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