The Nation: IMAX review

[P3D Eric Drysdale <edrys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The following is  a glowing little bit about the new Imax 3D movie from The
Nation. (http://www.thenation.com)

>Is it possible to make a really huge movie without sacrificing all thought,
>nuance and human feeling? The encouraging answer is to be found in Four
>Million Houseguests, an IMAX 3-D picture directed by, of all people,Paul Cox.
>
>Known for quirky, independent films such as Vincent: The Life and Death of
>Vincent Van Gogh and Golden Braid, Cox is the first art-house writer-director
>to win an IMAX assignment. Asked to work on a screen that'sbigger than
>Godzilla, with 3-D technology that makes characters appear to sit on your
>lap, Cox came to a decision that seems obvious, though nobody else had
>thought of it: He constructed a little drama on the theme of vision.
>
>A young girl named Elly (Charlotte Sullivan) spends a few days of the summer
>at the lakeside cottage of her eccentric, peripatetic grandfather (played in
>voiceover by James Garner). To amuse Elly, Grandpa has left behind clues to a
>mystery: a large pop-up book, a prism, a set of drawings of the human eye --
>even a reproduction of an  art-historical celebration of the marvels of
>optics, a Vermeer painting. These clues lead Elly to microscopes, and the
>microscopes lead her to a hidden world.
>
> To say that Four Million Houseguests is beautiful would be to condescend to
>nature itself. Gorgeous because the world is gorgeous, humane without
>sappiness and instructive without didacticism, it's a brief but satisfying
>forty minutes you can gladly enjoy next to the 10-year-old of your choice.
>
Sounds good.

-E

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