I guess I have to start taking 3D seriously now

[Steven Soderburgin]

Because Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese are both planning 3D films

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[phil]

The documentary seems like an odd choice to make in 3D. I could see the appeal in certain nature documentaries being shot in 3D, but one about cave paintings? Are they going to make the paintings themselves look 3D or something?

 

[Calleja]

That Scorsese flick probably won't see more than a limited release, will it?

 

[SpecialKO]

Because Werner Herzog and Martin Scorsese are both planning 3D films

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I had a very different idea of Scorsese doing a 3D movie before I read the article.

I had visions of a scruffy, angry, Irish-Italian-American mobster actually threatening to slit my throat with a knife.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

That Scorsese flick probably won't see more than a limited release, will it?

Well, it's being independently financed, but it's Scorsese, so distributors will probably be fighting over the film no matter what.

I'm far more concerned about the release of Herzog's documentary. How many distributors and theater owners are going to be jumping at a documentary about cave paintings from a great but - to the mainstream anyway - unknown German filmmaker?

And this brings up the idea of where exactly will these films be shown? Will art house theaters have to upgrade their projectors to 3D capability for these films if the multiplexes won't show them? What if the art houses can't or won't do that?

 

[Rob King]

I'd imagine that the movies would see a 2D release.

I need to watch more of Herzog's stuff. Encounters at the End of the World was one of the most incredible documentaries I've ever seen.

 

[Steven Soderburgin]

I'd imagine that the movies would see a 2D release.

I need to watch more of Herzog's stuff. Encounters at the End of the World was one of the most incredible documentaries I've ever seen.

If you liked that, WELL HAVE I GOT SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU







the recommendations are all of Herzog's stuff, but especially Grizzly Man, Lessons in Darkness, and Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Also Errol Morris's stuff (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, Fog of War)

Also, Herzog's fiction work, particularly the work he did with Kinksi (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu) and some of his recent stuff (Rescue Dawn [based on Little Dieter Needs to Fly], Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans)

Also check out Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams which is about the making of Fitzcarraldo

I am actually wearing my Herzog shirt today.