current selection | cj bolland – sugar is sweeter
ah…ive waited so long for this week…matrix, woo! things kick off wednesday with a reshowing of old school matrix at a friends pad, and then a 9:45 showing on thurs at the 34th st loews. wooha! this is seminal work here…i remember seeing the trailer for the first time and going, “holy shit, didja see how they pan-n-scanned and extrapolated the intermediate frames?!” jk, it was jus the holy shit part. i still have a research paper i did from third year for a technology and theory class, outlining the progenesis of the film semiotics with the architecture of control…still one of my best.
id always hoped matrix would be big. it was revolutionary on so many levels, not jus as a really spank movie. one could argue it single-handedly made dvds viable purchases, pushed film f/x in a way that hadnt been seen since the early 90’s by ilm, and opened up comics, hk kung-fu, and to a lesser extent anime to the mainstream. not to mention it brought to life the artwork of geof darrow, one of my artistic inspirations. 3 days til matrix…wooha!
