Those familiar with director Baz Luhrmann’s fixation with excess had every reason to look forward to his upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Sure, the subtle analysis of class warfare, sexuality, and post-war mores that enhance F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterwork will probably be excised, but who cares! Filtered through Baz’s indulgence-happy approach to the cinema, Read More
Editors note: what follows is an account from a press event in July for Zack Snyder’s latest movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole 3D that we mistakenly attended not knowing it was a movie for children. It never ran because, again, the movie is for children. With news that Mr. Snyder is Read More
Vogue Italia joins the ranks of Time Out New York and Playboy this September with a cover and two stories in 3D.
Australian model Miranda Kerr appears in a 22-page 3D feature in the magazine (we’ve cropped the photo here). “[T]here are still ways to make printed paper more and more interesting,” editor in chief Read More
Avatar is returning to movie theaters next week in the hopes of reversing a disturbing trend in Hollywood: 3-D is fading at the multiplex. After some big hits like Alice in Wonderland and Toy Story 3, recent 3-D offerings including Cats and Dogs and Step Up 3D have withered.
But perhaps a bigger question Read More
There are things you want to see in 3D in a magazine like Time Out New York and things you don’t. But before we can see anything, we have to assemble the glasses. The perforation is hard to manage, forget putting the three parts together. Were these pieces of paper even designed to fit together? Read More
Back before Avatar came out and rewrote the record books, there was a time when people still weren’t convinced that 3D was the future of cinema. Now though, you have to wonder: Will 2D become the outlier, reserved for indies and costume dramas? Because the way things are shaping up here in 2010, if you’re Read More
“Fuck the previews! Fuck the previews! Let’s hit this!” a man in the front row of the ancient-looking Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West said this week. “You can do it!” someone else said. “You can do it!” a third person shouted. “Never!” someone added, but not in a mean way. Everyone was Read More
When Buddy Holly and the Crickets performed at the Arthur Murray Dance Party in December 1957, Holly wore a tuxedo, a bowtie, and massive horn-rimmed glasses. He was, in short, a star disguised as a nerd.
In modern-day Williamsburg—or Bushwick, or Fort Greene—current nerds and future stars are indistinguishable. Every other kid just off Read More
