Out of Print (2014)

A documentary exploring the importance of revival cinema and 35mm exhibition - seen through the lens of the patrons of the New Beverly Cinema - a unique and independent revival cinema in Los Angeles.

Director:

Julia Marchese

Stars:

Patton Oswalt, Edgar Wright, Kevin Smith

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Patton Oswalt	...	Himself
Edgar Wright	...	Himself
Kevin Smith	...	Himself
Seth Green	...	Himself
Rian Johnson	...	Himself
John Landis	...	Himself
Richard Kelly	...	Himself
Joe Carnahan	...	Himself
Noah Segan	...	Himself
Clu Gulager	...	Himself
Joe Dante	...	Himself
Tom Holland	...	Himself
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Himself
Stuart Gordon	...	Himself
Mark Romanek	...	Himself

Storyline

The New Bev is a theater where a double feature is still $8 - cash only. A theater where David Lynch pops by for a secret Q&A and where Edgar Wright introduces our monthly midnight screening of Scott Pilgrim whenever he is in town. A theater where directors program a week of their favorite films and come down to talk about how they inspired them. A theater where Fassbinder, Romero, Scorsese and Hitchcock films all show in the same week. Where you could catch a double feature of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons - then stick around for the midnight screening of Cool As Ice. A place where the owner and employees genuinely care about cinema and are excited to talk to you about what the ending of Primer really means, or to recommend a film you've maybe never heard of. Since 1978 we've been home to dedicated film geeks, casual moviegoers and some of the greatest directors and actors in the world - everyone is treated equally here. We're one of the last places where that happens. ...

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Plot Keywords:

cinema | 35mm | cinephile | projection | cult film reference | 

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Taglines:

Directors. Dorks. Deviants. This ain't no Multiplex.

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 October 2014 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

The director would like to thank: Your Mom

User Reviews

Elitist whine-fest

This docu about the New Bev Cinema in Los Angeles (now under management of technophobe Tarantino who made sure they play everything in 35mm) feels like a elitist whine-fest. It always baffles me that overly nostalgic people are actually demanding they're getting the unintended defects from an archaic medium. A 100 years ago when film was invented film stock and prints was the best thing they could come up with at the time and it did actually work well. But it also had some problems like being sensitive to scratching, wobbly unstable imagery, mechanical projectors who made a rattling sound, loss of resolution with each transfer or duplication. Now technology has advanced and we have digital cameras who can easily match film, digital projectors who give a clean stable image that doesn't degrade with each showing. Now we can actually show the film like it was intended by the director each time it's projected! Now these elitists are saying: it's not romantic, it's to perfect, inhuman. They are actually comparing human flaws (humans indeed aren't perfect) to a medium. To those people I say: the medium is NOT the message. Good films will be made no matter what medium they're on. If they had digital a 100 years ago they would have used that. We don't HAVE to conserve a 100 year old technology because it's important. It had it's time, now we have something better. Let's move on. A typical characteristic that also defines human evolution is that people always try to better themselves and the way they do things. If we didn't we would still be no better then the monkeys we evolved from. Progress is part of the human condition so why fight it?