Alison Willmore has deemed Side by Side, hosted by Keanu Reeves, one of the five best bets on TV this week in a piece for Indiewire. The documentary will hve its broadcast premiere this Friday, August 30 on PBS at 9pm. With respect to the film, she writes:
Host and producer Keanu Reeves shows off his cinephile side in this doc, directed by Christopher Kenneally, about the rise of digital cinema. Reeves interviews everyone from Steven Soderbergh and David Fincher to David Lynch and Christopher Nolan, talking about the benefits and the downsides of rapidly evolving filmmaking technology. In our interview with Kenneally and Reeves from last year, Reeves said of the film that “It started with the camera. You know, the digital camera. But then it started to turn into the digital audience.”
The entire piece is here.