Sight & Sound. October 04.

"You can't see the city at night on motion-picture film the way you can on digital video." That's Michael Mann, talking to Mark Olsen, primarily about Collateral, of course, but also about the future of the medium. Olsen's convinced he's onto something: "If Kubrick [in Eyes Wide Shut] could prefigure the colours and framing of the still-emerging digital aesthetic, Mann is perhaps the perfect film-maker to take the technology forward."

Also in the October issue of Sight & Sound:

• In a reconsideration of the early work of Jacques Rivette, David Thomson starts off in a few different directions all at once, but overall, he's not going Olsen's way: "The tyranny of the visual has set in with a vengeance: come to think of it, it's a pretty good overall description of what bursts on to the big screen these days."
• Mark Kermode reviews Switchblade Romance, "a riotous slasher throwback which writer-director Alexandre Aja describes as an attempt to return to 'the roots of the genre, to give the audience a real "battle for survival".'"
• Tony Rayns on Father and Son: "[D]espite everything, the film has a cumulative power."
• Leslie Felperin on Super Size Me: "High-powered lobbyists, laissez-faire governments and lazy, carb-guzzling citizens are all proved complicit in worldwide nutritional suicide."

Posted by dwhudson at September 20, 2004 5:32 AM