While we don't have Ninja's at the IFS, there is always one staff member in the audience to help protect you from rude customers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/ninjas-keep-patrons-in-line-at-london-cinema.html

Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott talk about how digital technologies are changing the movies (New York Times):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/movies/how-digital-is-changing-the-nature-of-movies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

"...a photochemical image contains the mass of the subject and dimension; a digital image often feels as if it is mass-less. " (Keanu Reeves)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/10/steven-spielberg-martin-scorsese-celluloid?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9037&#start-of-comments

Many theaters are facing "a last picture show."

"... major Hollywood studios are planning to complete the switch to digital by ceasing to release 35-millimeter film altogether; 20th Century Fox promises to phase out film by the end of next year, and the others are expected to follow. Which means that the analog projectors that have whirred along for decades will be suddenly rendered incapable of playing modern movies."

To read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/movies/resort-towns-face-a-last-picture-show.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw

July 20, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/weve-seen-this-movie-before.html?_r=1

A detailed post from another arthouse exhibitor regarding their path to digital conversion.

http://www.renewtheaters.org/blog/2012/county-theaters-journey-digital-cinema/#more-6336

Coming this Fall to the IFS!

http://www.indiewire.com/article/watch-trailer-for-tribeca-multiple-award-winning-documentary-planet-of-snail#