Gatsby in 3-D
Baz Luhrmann is directing The Great Gatsby in 3-D, and after seeing Pina—an exquisite marriage of film and dance—my first reaction isn’t a scoff.
But did you know that Hitchcock himself made a 3-D movie??
To examine the potential of actors in 3-D without the gimmickry of contemporary action sequences, Mr. Luhrmann turned to Alfred Hitchcock’s 3-D version of “Dial M for Murder,” from 1954. It wasn’t easy. He found only two projectors, one in New York, one in Burbank, Calif., that could still play that film.
The sensation of moving through it with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings sealed the deal — both for himself and for Mr. DiCaprio and the troupe, who also studied the Hitchcock film. “It was like theater,” Mr. Luhrmann said.
