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Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com
Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com
Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org
Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com
High wire act “The Walk”
scornful view of CGI comes mostly from the fact that while it’s easy to pick out bad examples of CGI, successful effects are often invisible. The best examples are ones tied directly to story, adding a sensory experience to an already compelling narrative. Even something like 3D can — in the right hands — transcend the realm of cheap tricks to dramatically alter the experience of watching a film. Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk,” for example, makes exhilarating use of the IMAX 3D format as it breathlessly recreates French tightrope artist Philippe Petit (played here by Joseph GordonLevitt) most daring act. There’s already one great movie about Petit’s stunt, James Marsh’s Oscarwinning documentary “Man on Wire,” but instead of feeling unnecessary, this film functions as a nice companion piece to that documentary. The 3D effects don’t just provide immersive atmosphere, but take us to places that wouldn’t otherwise be possible, putting us up on the wire right alongside Petit. “The Walk” dramatizes Petit’s
(PG), DIRECTED BY ROBERT ZEMECKIS NOW PLAYING IN IMAX, OPENS EVERYWHERE FRIDAY
Geneseo Theatres Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com
[ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
Greece Ridge 12
People (usually critics) like to opine about the proliferation of CGI and effects-driven films that saturate the multiplexes, and it’s true that a lot of these films (and by extension, their effects) are slapdash efforts that arise out of bloated blockbuster budgets. But that’s not always the case: used properly and with purpose, digital effects can be a useful tool for a filmmaker. This
176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com
Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com
The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org
Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 292-0303, cinemark.com
Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com
Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com
Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com
Vintage Drive In 1520 W Henrietta Rd., Avon 226-9290, vintagedrivein.com
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “The Walk.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES
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real-life (and highly illegal) walk across a wire stretched between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Petit narrates the tale, which begins in France. Detailing the performer’s origin story, Zemeckis goes a bit overboard on the whimsy in this section, presenting street scenes of Paris in black-and-white with random bits of color. We see Petit ride around on a unicycle, juggling and wooing a pretty busker named Annie (Charlotte Le Bon), and later learning the tricks of his trade by studying under a Czech acrobat he calls Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley). It’s all a bit exhausting. Petit delivers this narration directly to the camera while sitting atop of the Statue of Liberty, and while the device is unabashedly hokey, it fits in with Zemeckis’ tone of a fairy tale-ish heightened reality, and you eventually get used to it. Though occasionally putting us inside Petit’s headspace, the constant narration has a tendency toward hand-holding, spelling out the emotional temperature of the each scene we’re watching. Things pick up considerably once Petit travels to New York to stage “the coup,” as he refers to it. Zemeckis’ digital effects recreate an immaculate portrait of 1970’s New York City, and he stages the action as a heist, with Petit rounding up a team to help him pull off his daredevil scheme. Standouts of the crew include a photographer named J.P. (James Badge Dale) and shy Jeff (César Domboy), who wants adventure but happens to be afraid of heights.
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