I just saw The Ice Storm at a local Ann ARbor theater last night and
noticed A LOT of glaring problems with the boom microphone.  It shows up
at the top of the frame in a couple scenes, and otherwise it seems that
the microphone has been masked out of a lot of scenes by masking WELL INTO
the upper part of the frame.  In some of the later scenes, for example,
the screen at my theater was 3/4 to 1/3 black.
 
ARG!!!  This is a beautiful, thoughtfully directed and acted film.
 
What's up?  Did I see a bad print? Was my theater screwy?  Or did this
somehow just get through the 20th Cent Fox gristmill looking like this?
 
My sense is that it couldn't have been the projection situation, since the
masking changed *with* the cutting from shot to shot, sometimes a big
swatch of masking would cut to no masking at all.
 
Does anyone have any info on this?  And does anyone know if the reviews
of the film have mentioned this at all?  I haven't been reading reviews
lately, but the ones of the film I've heard on the radio haven't mentioned
the problem--
 
Thanks,
Susan Crutchfield
University of Michigan
 
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