a991c4c4-5c6b-4b40-ae78-7f13e7b8a156 Immersive events that transform cinema-goers into participants have become popular nights out in London.
There is nothing inevitable or natural about the end of film, no matter how seductive the digital technologies and gadgets that are transforming cinema.
The ceremony also included a tribute to Eric Rohmer, the pioneer of the French "New Wave" which transformed cinema in the 1950s and 60s, who continued making films until not long before his death last month at the age of 89.
Ray Dolby, the sound pioneer who revolutionized the recording industry with the invention of the Dolby noise-reduction system and transformed cinema and home entertainment with Dolby digital surround sound, died on Thursday at his home in San Francisco.
The generation of directors who transformed cinema in the 70s grew up in the 60s to a soundtrack of Motown, the Stones and psychedelia; they grew up in the counterculture; they were the first generation of film-makers for whom pop was something with deep emotional meaning.
From 10 to 21 June, the transformed Cinema Paradiso will be the biggest drive-in ever seen in a capital city, welcoming up to 1,000 visitors per movie to the 12,000sqm space, with a programme that will show cult films ranging from Taxi Driver to Back to the Future to The Big Lebowski on a huge 25sqm screen.
His "Signs and Meaning in the Cinema" (1973) transformed film criticism in America and Britain.
Together they transformed film criticism, and, from around 1959, as the directors of the French New Wave rejuvenated French – and indeed world – cinema.
Having helped shape neorealism as a screenwriter in the 1940s, Federico Fellini took Italian movies into a new form of bitter, romantic realism in the 1950s before transforming world cinema with the extravagant, semi-autobiographical La dolce vita (1960) and 8½ (1963).
Coppola's dream was that American Zoetrope would allow artists to share ideas and equipment, and eventually to transform their native cinema.
About all that connects Hugo to his past is an automaton, a mechanical figure that leads him to discover that the owner of a toy store is the director Georges Méliès Ben Kingsleyy), who, with masterworks like "A Trip to the Moon" (1902), helped transform dreams into cinema as we knew it for most of the 20th century.
