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Side by Side
Directors James Cameron, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan and others discuss digital technology's impact on filmmaking. The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.
29 December 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
6 July 1977, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
31 March 1961, New York City, New York, USA
15 March 1934, Osnabrück, Germany
1957
20 January 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA
12 December 1925, Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
30 April 1956, Copenhagen, Denmark
21 June 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 October 1963
1955, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
1947, Bromley, Kent, England, UK
1968, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
28 August 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
16 August 1954, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada
March 04, 2013
Essential viewing for understanding different sides of one of the most vital current debates in cinema.February 17, 2013
It asks questions about culture and technology, the creation of a new sensibility, and whether we're looking at the debasement of values or a new democracy coming to the arts.August 05, 2014
...could have used more movie-specific discussions of the aesthetic implications of celluloid versus digital.February 18, 2013
At once a celebration of new technology and a lamentation of a passing one, Side by Side is oddly depressing to watch.September 27, 2012
It's this simple: If you like movies, you need to see "Side by Side."March 13, 2013
Side By Side is a riveting, under-the-hood distillation of 100 years of Hollywood experimentation, innovation and expensive bravery.September 10, 2013
The documentary would have been that much better with a more explicit focus on why the average filmgoer should care.September 23, 2012
Actors such as Robert Downey Jr. complain that because digital cameras can be reloaded in seconds, there is no time for performers to hang out in their trailers between takes (in protest, he urinated in jars, which he hid all over the sets of Zodiac).September 07, 2012
There is great flux in this world, as Side by Side so entertainingly demonstrates, and where it's all headed is both discomforting and exhilarating. Stay tuned.November 08, 2012
A trim, informative 99-minute primer on celluloid film, which to many viewers has a warmth and feel as soothing as buttered popcorn, and the brave new world of digital cinema.February 14, 2013
Keanu Reeves is a game frontman of this fact-filled, slightly chaotic doc about the rise of digital technology in film.