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.
1934, Quandialla, New South Wales, Australia
21 November 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 September 1964, Beirut, Lebanon
13 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA
6 July 1977, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
17 September 1941, Sidcup, Kent, England, UK
9 December 1953, Christopher, Illinois, USA
6 March 1950, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
20 January 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA
1968, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
24 June 1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy
15 March 1934, Osnabrück, Germany
28 August 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
6 October 1962, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
6 April 1942, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
8 June 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 November 1946, Glendale, California, USA
31 March 1961, New York City, New York, USA
1947, Bromley, Kent, England, UK
21 November 1954, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
29 December 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1960, UK
9 August 1949, Paris, Texas, USA
August 05, 2014
...could have used more movie-specific discussions of the aesthetic implications of celluloid versus digital.
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.
September 27, 2012
It's this simple: If you like movies, you need to see "Side by Side."
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).
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.
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.
March 04, 2013
Essential viewing for understanding different sides of one of the most vital current debates in cinema.
March 13, 2013
Side By Side is a riveting, under-the-hood distillation of 100 years of Hollywood experimentation, innovation and expensive bravery.
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.
