Step Into Their Worlds

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Step Into Their Worlds

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TRON: Legacy is set to roll out in dozens of countries around the world this week and next, though it won’t arrive in some European countries for another month or so. We’ve been gathering early reviews right here. While we wait, take a look at this nifty little mashup from Nick Tierce:

Nick Tierce’s Tron-ified Modern Times from Nick Tierce on Vimeo.

Now, as Alex Weekes pointed out the other day, you can enter the world of TRON: Legacy via TRON: Evolution and set up your own “personal space in Estates, where you can experience life on the grid.” Wouldn’t it be kind of great if you could step into the world of Charlie Chaplin‘s Modern Times, too? To us, in the 2010s, it’s as exotic and as aesthetically intriguing as the original TRON was to audiences in 1982. What other worlds might be fun to explore? Of these potentially immersive worlds conjured by a few of cinema’s masters (and one hard-working but unremarkable director), which would you like to wander into most?

  1. Last Year at Marienbad has been described as a “surreal fever dream, or perhaps a nightmare.” Alain Resnais‘s 1961 masterpiece has been seducing and confounding audiences for nearly half a century. Dressed in 20th century evening wear, you wander a sumptuous Baroque château and, as Miriam Bale explains, there’s even a game within the game.
  2. In the Mood for Love. To walk the nighttime streets of Hong Kong in 1962 as imagined by Wong Kar-wai and cinematographer extraordinaire Christopher Doyle… to experience the exquisite pain of longing for what cannot be had, your every strategy aborted just moments too soon… to take in the beauty of Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in silence, hour after hour, night after night.
  3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives “is a film that you slip into as you would a warm blanket,” wrote Daniel Kasman from Cannes this year, where Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s latest film, set on the edge of a jungle in Thailand and perhaps the most intoxicating of this quartet, won the Palme d’Or. “Uncle Boonmee stretches out in the countryside to take a final, deep, accepting breath of air and live life before passing on, from animals to men to ghosts and myths.”
  4. Just Imagine. Dystopian visions of the future are a dime a dozen. For kicks, picture venturing into the New York City of 1980 as director David Butler hoped it would be in 1930. Sort of like The Jetsons, and just as goofy, only on an outrageously grand scale: Art Deco buildings stretch 250 stories high; traffic zooms and flies by on nine levels. Oh, and it’s a musical.

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