In this month’s Sight and Sound (UK magazine) there is a letter about how digital projectors in cinemas have the same problems as digital television. In one London cinema the digital projection suddenly fucked up on a French film that the subtitles not only became out of sync with the dialogue but they started to jutter about the screen.
No, I won’t forget film. Give me scratches on the print over the digitally projected image suddenly becoming pixallated any day. If digital is so wonderful and is just as good as celluloid then why does Quentin Tarantino collect prints?
My guess is that ‘Grind House’ is being shot digitally because it is probably easier to fake 1970s exploitation cinema looking film on such a system than it is (ironically speaking) with actual film.
