cinema cinema
It's not often a short film can blow you away through shear genius, but the short that was created to help show off the new 21:9 cinema-screen tv from Phillips just managed to do that for me. Carousel tells the story of an explosive bank robbery, where the camera does a seamless single take shot through the whole scene returning to the start point ready to run through again, very much the titular carousel, but the whole thing is one frozen moment in time. Even if it means waiting, I really recommend watching the "ultra high definition version" in full screen. Don't turn the amblight effect off either first time around, do that the second time through (when you're watching the behind the scenes extras built in) as it makes more of a difference than I thought it should to me :-)
...anyway, go watch Carousel, it's Now Showing at:
http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en
...anyway, go watch Carousel, it's Now Showing at:
http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en