Friday, March 14, 2008 03:43 EDT
3-D is back!
In this week's IFC/Beyond the Multiplex video, Matt Singer and I take a look at the recent (and somewhat dubious) re-emergence of 3-D -- the cheesiest and most venerable special effect of all -- and fondly remember some of the greatest stereoscopic examples from the '50s through the '80s. (My favorite effect: That enormous ringing telephone in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder." Watch out for that pterodactyl! (Subscribe to these videos through iTunes and RSS).