Synopsis
Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in SIDE BY SIDE. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, and many more. -- (C) Tribeca Films
“The evolution to digital is a sea change, but how does it affect the movies we see?... [SIDE BY SIDE is] a meditation on the ways that art and technology flow into each other.”—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
“For a film geek this movie is absolute heaven... Auteurists and gadget fetishists will be equally enraptured... Fascinating debates percolate in 'Side by Side'...”—A.O. Scott, New York Times
"...illuminating.... rarely do audience-friendly documentaries focus on the nuts and bolts, which is why Kenneally's intensive study feels both necessary and long overdue."—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter