{"id":4834,"date":"2012-05-06T13:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2012-05-06T13:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T17:29:43","slug":"hotdocs-revision-other-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"HotDocs: Revision + Other Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just uploaded is another HotDocs capsule review: Philip Scheffner\u2019s experimental documentary Revision <\/a><\/strong>[M<\/a>] <\/strong>(2012) which is pretty bold in its stripped-down realism format but might prove tough for traditional crime doc fans.<\/p>\n

Today marks the last day of HotDocs, and the festival winners have been posted at the official website<\/a>, as well as info on encore presentations.<\/p>\n

This Sunday also marks the last day of operations for the Cumberland Cinemas, which will shutter forever after the last HotDocs films \u2013 Colombianos<\/strong> and Buzkashi!<\/strong> \u2013 are screened later this evening.<\/p>\n

Reports of the cinema\u2019s closure went out to its employers earlier this week, and BlogTO<\/a> has a piece on the closure, but like the old Uptown, this marks another cinema shuttered after the end of a film festival. Must be a curse for the Bloor strip between Yonge & Bay.<\/p>\n

The info is still minimal at this stage, but instead of another badly needed luxury condo, the building may house another badly needed upscale coffee shop, because as many who traverse the area know, Bay & Bloor has a terrible paucity of java outlets, and I\u2019m frankly sick of pushing away doe-eyed caffeine addicts wanting a sip of my coffee.<\/p>\n

In any event, it\u2019s worth checking out the reader comments at the end of the piece which pretty much sums up the love\/hate relationship for the vintage 1981 cinema that used to specialize in foreign & indie films and slowly lost its luster. I always loved its convenient location, but maybe all those reports of its imminent demise and poor marquee signage on Bloor made most people thing the cinema was shuttered eons ago, as with most vestiges of Cineplex\u2019s compact movie houses of the era.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the Hollywood Reporter <\/a>posted Fox will stop distributing 35mm prints \u00a0to cinemas, becoming the first major studio to go fully digital.<\/p>\n

What follows over the next year \u2013 in terms of other studios \u2013 will be intriguing, but I wonder what\u2019ll happen to prints of classic films. Will they be withdrawn? Will they be allowed to disintegrate and never be replaced by a new one? Will there be a specialty division devoted to the distribution of classic titles for festival outlets? Will cinematheques be stuck with projecting up-res\u2019d DVD or Blu-rays? Or will Fox and others provide 2K transfers of existing classic films so their beloved CinemaScope catalogue, for example, isn\u2019t restricted to specialty channels and 3rd party licensed home video discs.<\/p>\n

Coming shortly: reviews of Twilight Time\u2019s Desiree<\/strong> (1954) and Bell Book and Candle<\/strong> (1958) on Blu.<\/p>\n

And not far off: Editor\u2019s Blog on this afternoon\u2019s 35mm print screening of Planet of the Apes<\/a> <\/strong>(1968) and maybe, if I have time, some snapshots of the Cumberland. Yes, it\u2019s old, boxy, and has little luster, but I don\u2019t like it when a cinema closes, and festivals may have to extra scrambling to get needed screen time.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capsule review from the latest HotDocs screening: Revision (2012), the Cumberland Cinemas closes today, and Fox bids adieu to distributing 35mm film in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1291,1287,1292,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1fY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}