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December 10, 2015 12:30 PM   Subscribe

Take Flight [New York Times] [Magazine] The year’s best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick. To watch in virtual reality on your phone, download our app.

- Great Performers Above It All: The year’s best actors — as chosen by A. O. Scott — in a series of photographic tributes to classic flight scenes from the movies.
- The Art of Flying in the Movies: A cinematic history of going airborne.
- Editor’s Letter: Take Flight With Virtual Reality: In the magazine’s new V.R. film, we send our readers up, up and away.
- Behind the Scenes of ‘Take Flight’: The secret of flying, explained.
posted by Fizz (3 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
You can watch it in the browser without downloading the app. And it's not mystery meat, just the writeup (taken from the page) is not very clear. It's a bunch of actors in very short films simulating flight.

I know the Fassbender one is supposed to be simulating something else, but I was watching him and going "Magneto".
posted by immlass at 2:25 PM on December 10, 2015


I hope no cats were harmed in the making of Melissa McCarthy's movie.

These are cool but the takeaway is that the "flying" face is like the O-face ... Intense but the also know kind of silly.
posted by chavenet at 3:13 PM on December 10, 2015


Wtached it until the ad came on, which totally destroyed the mood for me. They could have done a better job with product placements flying past McCarthy's cats. IKEA could have sponsored the lamp.

Ah well. A promising aesthetic experience destroyed by commerce. Again.

I'm going back to the John Cage thread.
posted by salishsea at 6:47 PM on December 10, 2015


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