Brainstorm (1983)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 106m
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher
Synopsis:
Breakthrough technology for getting inside people's minds and replaying their experiences is developed by researchers who apply it in morally questionable ways for their own purposes. However, it is when the military displays an interest in the device that the fun really starts.
Review:
Something of a 'film maudit', in that Natalie Wood died during production and MGM had just had a brainstorm of its own in acquiring United Artists' massive debt sheet. Needless to say, Trumbull's dream of applying his pioneering Showscan process (far higher shutter speed than 24fps) to the brain sequences had to go whistle (though it was still shot in 70mm). As for the film itself, it is uneven, formulaic and asks the viewer to take a lot on trust, exactly as if the Showscan part had been the tail wagging the dog all along...
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 106m
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher
Synopsis:
Breakthrough technology for getting inside people's minds and replaying their experiences is developed by researchers who apply it in morally questionable ways for their own purposes. However, it is when the military displays an interest in the device that the fun really starts.
Review:
Something of a 'film maudit', in that Natalie Wood died during production and MGM had just had a brainstorm of its own in acquiring United Artists' massive debt sheet. Needless to say, Trumbull's dream of applying his pioneering Showscan process (far higher shutter speed than 24fps) to the brain sequences had to go whistle (though it was still shot in 70mm). As for the film itself, it is uneven, formulaic and asks the viewer to take a lot on trust, exactly as if the Showscan part had been the tail wagging the dog all along...
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 106m
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher
Synopsis:
Breakthrough technology for getting inside people's minds and replaying their experiences is developed by researchers who apply it in morally questionable ways for their own purposes. However, it is when the military displays an interest in the device that the fun really starts.
Review:
Something of a 'film maudit', in that Natalie Wood died during production and MGM had just had a brainstorm of its own in acquiring United Artists' massive debt sheet. Needless to say, Trumbull's dream of applying his pioneering Showscan process (far higher shutter speed than 24fps) to the brain sequences had to go whistle (though it was still shot in 70mm). As for the film itself, it is uneven, formulaic and asks the viewer to take a lot on trust, exactly as if the Showscan part had been the tail wagging the dog all along...