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Side by Side
Directed by
Christopher Kenneally
Not Rated
2012
1h 39m
Documentary
7.6
92%
86%
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The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.
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Cast of Side by Side
Keanu Reeves
Self / Host / Producer
Martin Scorsese
Self
James Cameron
Self
David Fincher
Self
David Lynch
Self
Lars von Trier
Self
Steven Soderbergh
Self
Danny Boyle
Self
George Lucas
Self
Robert Rodriguez
Self
Richard Linklater
Self
Joel Schumacher
Self
Christopher Nolan
Self
Lena Dunham
Self
Greta Gerwig
Self
Lilly Wachowski
Self
Wally Pfister
Self
Lana Wachowski
Self
Michael Ballhaus
Self
Dion Beebe
Self
Michael Chapman
Self
Anne V. Coates
Self
Anthony Dod Mantle
Self
Charles Herzfeld
Self
Jim Jannard
Self
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
Self
Jason Kliot
Self
Ellen Kuras
Self
Donald McAlpine
Self
Reed Morano
Self
Walter Murch
Self
Dennis Muren
Self
Michael E. Phillips
Self
Dick Pope
Self
Tom Rothman
Self
Sandi Sissel
Self
Tim Stipan
Self
Vittorio Storaro
Self
Jost Vacano
Self
Adam Valdez
Self
Bradford Young
Self
Vilmos Zsigmond
Self
John Malkovich
Self
Michael Goi
Self
Andrzej Bartkowiak
Self
Jill Bogdanowicz
Self
Darnell Martin
Self
David Tattersall
Self
Craig Wood
Self
David Stump
Self
Stefan Sonnenfeld
Self
Phil Meheux
Self
John Mathieson
Self
Geoff Boyle
Self
Barry Levinson
Self
John Knoll
Self
Chris Lebenzon
Self
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Self
Derek Ambrosi
Self
Mikko Wilson
Self
Christopher Kenneally
Director / Writer
Justin Szlasa
Producer
Side by Side Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
The documentary would have been that much better with a more explicit focus on why the average filmgoer should care.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
It's this simple: If you like movies, you need to see "Side by Side."
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Side by Side doesn't give too much weight to either half of the debate, correctly noting that the move to digital has both pros and cons while offering a rather detailed history of how we got here.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
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.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Side By Side works as well as it does by celebrating the filmmaking practice as a distinctive art form no matter what process it uses to make images into motion.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A surprisingly accessible documentary about an often very technical subject - the revolution surrounding Hollywood's rapid conversion from 35mm film to digital technologies.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
"Side by Side" is a kind of eulogy for celluloid, beginning with some of the most famous images committed to film: "A Trip to the Moon," "Citizen Kane," "The Wizard of Oz."
New York Times
A.O. Scott
For a film geek this movie is absolute heaven, a dream symposium in which directors, cinematographers, editors and a few actors gather to opine on the details of their craft.
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Alas, if you're someone who enjoys movies as, say, a two-hour escape, you may find this documentary on the death of film at digital's hands a bit too inside baseball.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Film enthusiasts especially will appreciate this wonky but fascinating documentary about the process of making movies.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The film is about how the digital revolution has changed the ways moviemakers capture, edit, and manipulate images, and it gets practically every famous, relevant person on the record.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A meditation on the ways that art and technology flow into each other.
Village Voice
Michelle Orange
Even disinterested viewers will have complicated feelings about the aesthetic, practical, and philosophical questions director Chris Kenneally poses about his subject.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
You can feel the future, even if some of what you feel is worrying.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Keanu Reeves is an astute and witty interviewer in Chris Kenneally's vital film. No true movie junkie is going to want to miss Side by Side.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
Side by Side is not a dry polemic, nor is it an advocacy statement; that's what I admire most about it.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
"Side by Side" is a handy overview of recent seismic changes occurring within the industry and unexpectedly essential viewing.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The situation is fascinating, and given an illuminating investigation here.
Birth.Movies.Death.
Jordan Hoffman
something I'd be happy to get into a jovial shouting match about over pints, but [not] for the length of a feature film.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A serviceable primer on the digital-celluloid divide in commercial cinema, if a bit unwieldy in scope and in danger of being made obsolete by the next version of the RED camera.
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