3D REPLACES LANGUAGE IN NEW WIM WENDERS FILM

Other directors have used 3D to enhance scenes of their films, but director Wim Wenders (The Buena Vista Social Club, Paris, Texas) says that 3D was absolutely crucial in the making of his “dance documentary” Pina, which screened out of competition Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival. Initially, he told a news conference at the […]

MUSIC VIDEO COUNTS 2 MILLION VIEWERS AND 200,000 MORE PER DAY

A masterfully edited montage of dance scenes from some 40 movies set to Kenny Loggins’s recording of “Footloose,” has quickly gone viral on YouTube, moving past the 2-million mark on Wednesday as it currently collects more than 200,000 additional viewers per day. The unidentified uploader apparently adjusted the speed of each clip so that the […]

MOVIE REVIEWS: STEP UP 3D

Critics are stepping on the toes of the Step Up 3D filmmakers. Sure, there’s plenty of over-produced dance sequences, some of them say, but they all seem like interruptions of the story (what there is of that). “Step Up 3D is strictly 1D. Tired choreography and moldy hip-hop gestures accompany insipid characters, straight-line plotting and […]