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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Atlanta moviegoer's 'Cave' dilemma

Posted by on Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:16 PM

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Good news, everyone! Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams is now playing at the United Artists Tara Cinema. The German director's documentary about the Chauvet Cave paintings in Southern France has been touted as having some of the most artful use of 3D of any film ever made.

But there's a snag. The Tara is not actually exhibiting Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D style. Obviously, it's still the same movie, and our own Wyatt Williams told me that it's "really, really amazing even w/o 3d." But I've also heard that Herzog filmed Cave in 3D and makes it the rare film that treats the approach as more than an audience-hustling gimmick. One could make a road trip to a nearby city showing it 3D, but according to Moviefone, the next nearest theaters showing Cave are in Greensboro, N.C., Newport, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, which seems like an awfully long way to go to for a 90-minute documentary.

So should you hold out for Cave to open hear (or even, say, Chattanooga) in 3-D? See it locally in 2D? Just wait for the DVD release, if you're going to see it two dimensions, anyway? I don't know what to tell you.

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Atlanta to finally go IMAX at Atlantic Station?

Posted by on Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:26 PM

For years Atlanta's only source of IMAX films inside the perimeter has been at Fernbank, which restricts its selections to lavish nature films. Moviegoers wanting to see the likes of Avatar on a super-big screen have had to venture out to the Mall of Georgia or, more recently, AMC Barrett Commons and AMC Southlake Pavilion. (Cinema purists, incidentally, accuse Barrett Commons of presenting a "fake IMAX" screen smaller than IMAX fans have come to expect.) That might change when Regal Cinemas completes plans to open an IMAX theater at Atlantic Station. According to a new press release:

IMAX Corp. and Regal Entertainment Group today announced an expansion of the companies' joint venture agreement to include installation of an additional 16 to 25 new IMAX theatres in the United States. As part of the agreement, Regal also plans to upgrade eight of its existing film-based IMAX theatres with IMAX's digital projection technology.The companies intend to open up the new joint venture theatres by the end of 2012 in U.S. markets including such cities as Albuquerque, NM, Eugene, OR, Charlottesville, VA and Atlanta, GA.

So perhaps we'll get to see the theoretical Avatar 2 in IMAX without driving to Buford.

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