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.
1960, UK
29 December 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 August 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
29 August 1939, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7 January 1964, Bronx, New York, USA
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
14 May 1944, Modesto, California, USA
4 March 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 05, 2014
...could have used more movie-specific discussions of the aesthetic implications of celluloid versus digital.
March 04, 2013
Essential viewing for understanding different sides of one of the most vital current debates in cinema.
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 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.
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).
February 14, 2013
Keanu Reeves is a game frontman of this fact-filled, slightly chaotic doc about the rise of digital technology in film.
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.
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.
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.
