
In the few years it’s taken for the digital revolution to take root, we’ve shelved many techniques of classic cinema. "I wanted not only for the witch to cast the spells, but I also wanted the movie to cast spells over the audience in terms of cinematic techniques." No film is a better case study on this debate than Anna Biller’s The Love Witch, out in theaters this Friday courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories. (Find a theater that can project it as it should be seen-on 35mm- here.) What about when lighting functions as psychology, or when color functions as symbolism? If you think the style of your film is "presenting reality as it is," you may be missing out on tools of great filmmaking. But putting them in the visuals is the best way to make them work."

"You can have political, feminist, and intellectual ideas in a movie.
