New After Life DVD

[Michael E. Kerpan]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Lang Thompson <wlt4 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> This is called soft matting and was quite common during the 70s and 80s (at
> least in the US).  The problem and one reason it's not done as often is
> that directors often left things in the matted out portion that audiences
> weren't meant to see--usually boom mics but also tops of sets, etc.  

I didn't notice any errors of this sort in _After Life_. In fact, I don't
notice any obvious compositional deficiencies.  Is it possible that Kore-Eda
composed the film with "double vision" -- considering how it would look in both
formats?

Michael Kerpan