Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Directed by Michel Gondry · Cinematography by Ellen Kuras
PG-13102 min58 frames
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What is Be Kind Rewind about?
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 buddy comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, and Melonie Diaz with supporting roles done by Chandler Parker, Irv Gooch, Arjay Smith, Marcus Carl Franklin, Blake Hightower, and Amir Ali Said. It tells the story of an employee at the titular VHS rental store and his conspiracy theorist friend, who work to recreate the rental store's film inventory after they were accidentally erased when the latter got himself magnetized while the proprietor was away. The film first appeared on January 20, 2008, at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film opened on February 22, 2008, in the United Kingdom and in North America.
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What does the cinematography of Be Kind Rewind look like?
Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of Be Kind Rewind leans on medium shots (55% of the sample) and wide compositions (29%). Cinematographer Ellen Kuras keeps 62% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Be Kind Rewind (2008) are #2e302c, #0f1110, #d0d2cf, #52544d, #384950, #b0b3ad — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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