Wonderfully recreates the two-strip / three-strip development of Technicolor, managed by Robert Legato as head of vfx on top of Robert Richardson's Oscar-winning Panavision photography (Thelma also won).
Too long, like most of Marty's films. Spectacular crash sequence. Inspired performance of Katharine Hepburn by Cate Blanchett (won Oscar). Investigation scene by Alan Alda (really great; nominated) is neatly turned on itself in writer John Logan's more successful moments (he wrote the equally long Skyfall and Gladiator). Otherwise problem is we don't know anything much about Hughes, or care.
Very interesting sound editing by Oscar-nominees Tom Fleischman and Petur Hiddal in which we're getting cross-dissolves of the (most interesting) music tracks.
Also with Alec Baldwin (who I now find difficult to take seriously, but is having a career renaissance since Woody's latest Blue Jasmine, the Alzheimer's pic Still Alice and Cameron Crowe's new one Aloha), John C Reilly, Jude Law, Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm and Danny Huston.
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