Helvetica
I saw the film Helvetica last night at the Walker Art Center. I bought my ticket six weeks ago when I first heard about the film. It’s a good thing, because the Walker employee who introduced the film’s director said that not only did that first screening sell out, so did the one they added later in the evening, and also the one they added for tonight.
The film was excellent. By my usual line of reasoning, in which I describe the quality of a thing by enumerating how few flaws I observed, I have only one: in one of the interviews, the interviewer’s voice was left in the film for one question, but he wasn’t properly recorded by the microphone. He wasn’t even on-screen, so it doesn’t make sense to me that he didn’t re-record those three seconds.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I really want to see it, from a Printing and Typography standpoint I think it could be worth the time… Alas, I hate Helvetica, though not nearly as much as it’s bastard copycat cousin Ariel, born of Microsoft’s desire not to license the real Helvetica for Truetype.