So has anyone here seen Zodiac? I saw it yesterday afternoon, on a digital projector.→[More:]After thinking about it, it might be my favorite David Fincher movie. It's long (160 minutes), but it didn't feel long at all. Enjoyment of it is probably directly related to your willingness to accept that:

(a) though it's directed by David Fincher, the number of gratuitously stylish images in it probably numbers less than ten;

(b) though it initially appears to be a conventional police procedural, it doesn't have the traditionally neat solution that films like this usually do. The film is more interested in the people attempting to solve the case than it is in the killer himself.

As for the digital projection--I'm ambivalent. I didn't hate it, and it's probably good for movies that are made with it in mind. The image was very sharp, but the blacks weren't very black, and rapid panning shots occasionally suffered due to the refresh rate. There were also the relatively washed-out colors that are typical of much digital filmmaking (but in the particular case of Zodiac it sort of worked, recalling the aesthetics of many films of the '70s). The friend of mine I was with said afterward, "I really wouldn't want to watch a Hitchcock movie on that screen," and I agreed.