Not only does the photography benefit from the color depth and added resolution from celluloid, but the 35mm format is but another of the film's sly anachronisms. The film posits that things change slowly, but - watching this on the last day of this year's digital-heavy Cannes festival - nothing has felt more rushed than the disappearance of film prints in our theatres.
Continuing with their policy of spreading the joy in all categories, the Gotham independent film award nominations has Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” leading the pack with three noms each, but mysteriously it is Durkin's gem that is pushed aside in a Best Feature category that includes Fox Searchlight's The Descendants and Tree of Life, the other best indie film of the year in Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter, and a pair of films that many of us associate to 2010 in Meek's Cutoff and Beginners.