Should have shot it on 35mm

Doubt it would have made the slightest difference with audiences, but it might have helped the movie. I don't think older directors really understand how to make digital look good - they should stick with what they know.

Iagree. Film is best.

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i like film better too, but i found very interesting what he did with digital. in a way, he did something somewhat postmodern, blending the digital with the archival. the effect played very interestingly, the strangeness of the juxtapositions, of one era with another. and the photography looked great overall. i think this is a rare movie where digital enhanced -- some of the best digital movies find something new or filmic to do with the technique ("only lovers left alive," "frances ha," etc).

he was also very expressive with the editing. and the screenplay was expressive. we're not watching just any movie when a long walk -- in a tight two-man shot -- ends with two men sitting down outside to hamburgers, looking at a plane. and the effect wasn't merely oddball -- there was a crafty wit to this film; i think the photography played into that.

i see no reason beatty should do something only to connect to audiences who wouldn't probably get the movie in the end anyway. i think this was a truly great movie, and i think people will catch up to it in a few years. it's a reds-scale classic.