A NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE

Jul 2, 2009 16 related

Take a look at your household camcorder right now. Go on, it's fine. It's that silver thing you use to capture funny videos of your cat singing and your kid brother running into a table. Now, everyone can agree that digital video, the format you are currently using on the aforementioned cat videos, really has no place in a multimillion-dollar historical epic starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Well, director Michael Mann is clearly not on the same page. Mann was largely able to escape the downsides of using digital video, as opposed to 35 or 70 mm film stock, in 2004's sublimely gritty Collateral. But he falls prey to the faults of the format in his latest film, Public Enemies, a period piece about the hunt for "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger (Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) by Melvin Purvis... [read full story]