NYT Critics' Pick This movie has been designated a Critic's Pick by the film reviewers of The Times.
The musical documentary “U2 3D,” which stitches together three performances by this Irish rock band during a recent tour of South America, is not merely a technical landmark — shot entirely in digital 3D — but also an aesthetic one, in that it’s the first Imax movie that deserves to be called a work of art.
The person most responsible for the film’s vision, Catherine Owens — one of the movie’s two directors, who is also in charge of production design for the band’s live shows — has brazenly ignored the usual stipulations about making a 3-D film. She favors quick edits and slow dissolves rather than long takes and hard cuts. Throughout, she layers the screen with multiple planes of information: long shots and medium shots of the musicians, images of the crowd, close-up details of graphics from the big screen that the band performs in front of that make the designs abstract and merge them with the performers.
The result is not a confusing mishmash of images but a musical/experimental work that visually simulates the sensation of thinking. The very idea of self-contained screen geography is thrillingly reconceived.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/movies/23band.html?ref=moviesSounds like a completely new take on the 'Rockumentary' genre, this may spawn a whole new interest in producing 3D Movies - look forward to seeing it and hope they include a few 'Spinal Tap' moments !
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