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Christopher Nolan wants to show me something interesting. Something beautiful and exceptional, something that changed his life when he was a boy.
It's also something that Nolan, one of the most accomplished and successful of contemporary filmmakers, has persuaded Warner Bros. to share with the world both at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and then in theaters nationwide, but in a way that boldly deviates from standard practice.
For what is being cued up in a small, hidden-away screening room in an unmarked building in Burbank is a brand new 70-mm reel of film of one of the most significant and influential motion pictures ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction epic "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Yes, you read that right. Not a digital anything, an actual reel of film that was for all intents and purposes identical to the one Nolan saw as a child and Kubrick himself would have looked at when the film was new half a century ago.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-christopher-nolan-2001-20180503-story.html
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:17PM (6 children)
2001 was shot in 2.21:1 super panavision 70 which requires a curved screen so venues are limited. [visual-memory.co.uk] Respect to Nolan but I'm afraid I can't do that Dave; We're never going to see it in it's original glory.
(Score: 2, Touché) by mechanicjay on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:51PM (4 children)
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1) by mechanicjay on Wednesday May 09 2018, @11:55PM (2 children)
Boo.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @01:02AM (1 child)
According to Wikipedia, Paul Allen already had a fully accurate version of 2001 prepared for the Cinerama in Seattle. Again according to Wikipedia, they have to change out the screen to switch between Cinerama and modern formats, so they only do it every so often, but maybe this will drum up some interest and get them to show it again.
(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Friday May 11 2018, @05:08PM
Yes, but I always assumed that was a older, well preserved print.
Cinerama does a regular (annual) 70mm film festival -- sadly I suck and haven't made it any showings because all the good stuff sells out super quick.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10 2018, @12:18AM
"The Seattle Cinerama Theatre ... is one of only three movie theaters in the world still capable of showing three-panel Cinerama films." [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by mendax on Thursday May 10 2018, @12:07AM
Considering that I first saw a scratchy print of it in the university theater with an awful sound system, I'll forego the curved screen for an excellent flatscreen presentation. Incidentally, I watched the film last night on DVD at home. Not as good as a 70-mm print in a modern theater but at least it had good sound.
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