Last week I went to a screening of Steve Solderbergh‘s new film The Girlfriend Experience, an interestingly made film about a not very interesting Manhattan call girl. Today, I received an email from, I presume, a publicist for the film:
Good morning – below is a note to you from Steven Soderbergh about the 3/18 Magno screening you attended of THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE. Regrettably, the film was projected at an inadequate resolution that did not do it justice—Steven explains this below. All future screenings will be held at Deluxe – the brand new, state-of-the-art, very cool screening room at 435 Hudson Street (9th Floor), where it will look fantastic. Here’s the note from Steven:
Dear Valued Customer.
I don’t mean to be nettlesome in a time of worldwide turmoil, but this is really, really important. The screening of THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE you attended at Magno last week was presented at a resolution of 720p instead of the preferred industry standard of 2K. Therefore, as the mathletes among you will attest, the visual quality of what you saw was roughly 1/3 of what it should have been. In other words, if you had seen the film in my living room, it would have looked better than what you saw at Magno, although the majority of you would have been on the fire escape. As some of you may know, I am a huge (5’ 11”, 142 lbs.) proponent of the RED digital camera, and the Magno screening was not a fair representation of its merits. If, as I suspect, you sincerely wish your praise of the visual aspect of the film to take flight and reach the outer edges of extravagance, then you should consider attending an upcoming screening at another venue.
I remain, as always,
Steven Soderbergh aka Senator Widestance
If only that would make the characters more interesting.