Giles

I have seen the following in it's initial theatrical release (including 35mm/70mm blowups):

- Star Wars (Uptown)
- Empire Strikes Back (Cinema)
- Return of the Jedi (Jenifer)
- Far and Away (Uptown)
- Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz remake) (Tenley)
- The Dark Crystal (MacArthur)
- Blue Thunder (Tenley)
- Ghostbusters (Uptown)
- Superman (Uptown)
- Superman II (Uptown)
- The Untouchables (Cinema)
- Last of the Mohicans (Uptown)
- The Last Emperor (Uptown)
- E.T (KB Cinema)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (KB Cinema)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (KB Cinema)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (KB Cinema)
- Wargames (KB Cinema)
- Amadeus (KB Cinema)
- Gandhi (Uptown)
- Dune (Uptown)
- Dances with Wolves (Uptown)
- Glory (Cinema)
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise (Cinema)
- Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes (Uptown)
- Ladyhawke (Uptown)
- The Mission (Uptown)
- Quest for Fire (Uptown)
- Cry Freedom (Uptown)
- The Master

revivals:
- My Fair Lady (Uptown)
- Playtime (AFI Silver)
- Hello, Dolly! (AFI Silver)
- It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (AFI Silver)
- West Side Story (Uptown)
- Alien (Uptown)
- Lawrence of Arabia (AFI Silver)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Uptown and AFI Silver)
- Star! (AFI Silver) / 2013
- Lifeforce (AFI Silver) / 2012
- Tron (AFI Silver)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) (AFI Silver)
- Ryan's Daughter (AFI Silver)

sauce07

Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ben-Hur

Thanks Uptown

JackBurton

2001: A Space Odyssey (AFI Silver)

Giles

do you happen to remember what year you saw Ben Hur at the Uptown - I remember seeing a revival of it there, but I don't recall if it was a 35mm or 70mm print.

sauce07

1999 or 2000, thought it was a 70mm

Giles

^ oh it probably was, I'm just not remembering

NoirFan

A revival of Lawrence of Arabia. Wish I'd been able to see a few more, especially 2001.

Blu Man

Unfortunately, nothing. Oregon only has two theaters that project 70mm prints, both of which are IMAX and only show nature/educational films, one of which is a dome IMAX. So I've seen some nature stuff on 70mm, but never a feature.

Daytripper

The Uptown Theater used to have 70MM festivals every year of so right up until circa 1991. About 7-10 films would play for about 2 weeks. A new title every two days or so. I saw the following during these festivals: "Blade Runner", "Altered States", "2010" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". I remember even seeing "The Exorcist" on the lineup one year. I didn't even know there was a 70MM print of that.

When I was a kid, I saw Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" in 70MM at the Tysons Cinema. That was pretty cool.

Rypro 525

2001 at the AFI Silver

sauce07

DC area folks representing

Scotts35

Lawrence Of Arabia at AFI Silver.

I'm hating that I missed 2001 there, didn't realize it was 70 MM.

Does the Uptown even play old movies anymore? Or any theater in DC for that matter? I'm not including AFI, a place. Been fortunate to see so many different films I missed in theaters due to being too young, like The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Evil Dead 2, Moulin Rouge, and now, tomorrow, Back To The Future.

obscurelabel

Aliens, Ghandi, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the Columbia (original releases). I saw The Sound of Music there in 1966 as a very young kid, but I don't know if it was 70mm or not.
2001 at the Fox (1980s).
My Fair Lady at the Rhodes (1980s). It was probably an original print as it was faded out to a nice lavender and white.
The Empire Strikes Back at Phipps Plaza (original release).
Deliverance and The Excorcist (1980s). I'm drawing a blank on what the theater was called but it was (and may still be) in the mall at Buford Highway near Clairmont where the Burlington Coat Factory is. In the 80s they had a little mini 70mm festival with these titles and a few others; I have the flyer somewhere.

Of these, the most recent ones at the Columbia were very impressive, probably because the Columbia had a huge curved screen and they knew how to project 70mm.

My Fair Lady had great clarity and detail, but the badly faded color was distracting.

I think the screen at the Fox for 2001 was too big, as it seemed I was too close to the screen and everything was blown out and grainy (even though I was in one of the far balconies).

The others weren't that impressive, probably because the screens weren't large enough to make an impression.

Rypro 525

the E street cinema in dc does midnight cult movies (shown with 35 mm prints) Here's their up coming schedule
July 23 & 24: May The Farce Be With You! Mel Brooks's Spaceballs
July 23 & 24: With live shadow cast Sonic Transducers! The Rocky Horror Picture Show
July 30 & 31: D.C. Premiere! New Spanish horror! [Rec] 2
Aug 6 & 7: Who you gonna call? Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters
Aug 13 & 14: Take a ride on the animated sci-fi classic Heavy Metal
Aug 13 & 14: With live shadow cast Sonic Transducers! The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Aug 20 & 21: "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" The Room
Aug 27 & 28: Toons in trouble! Robert Zemeckis's Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Aug 27 & 28: With live shadow cast Sonic Transducers! The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sep 3 & 4: Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
Sep 10 & 11: Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
Sep 10 & 11: With live shadow cast Sonic Transducers! The Rocky Horror Picture Show

flagstone

I caught Tron in 70mm at the Paramount in Austin a few years back.

wendersfan

Playtime, 2001, and Lawrence of Arabia. maybe a few more. Those are the ones that stand out.

arminius

Apocalypse Now and 2001.

Mabuse

Fuck blow ups, I've seen a few, but big deal.

Films shot in 70 that I've seen: Playtime, Lawrence, 2001, Vertigo (restoration from Vista, not originally shot in 70)

Giles

blow ups though had 5.1 surround sound before the advent of Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS

the sound of the cannons in 'Last of the Mohicans' could have blown a sonic hole in the Uptown's theatre's walls

Solid Snake

So...uhm..if it's not shot in 70mm..what makes it better when it's put on 70mm?

Giles

in theory it's the same thing and process of when a 35mm print is DMR'd to IMAX/70mm horizontal. The image is derived from the original negative and processed onto 70mm stock - although the shot footage won't be as sharp as a film natively shot with 70mm cameras, film stock, it will be superior to the image that mass produced 35mm prints can deliver - the intermediate negative has far better resolution, clarity and sharpness that actual degrades when it is processed and released on 35mm prints that are distributed to the theatres. Blowups also had the ability to encode 6 channels of sound directly onto the film (5 channel front, mono surrounds and three channels front, two channel stereo surround with the release of 'Apocalypse Now'), whereas 35mm sound could not at the time (pre-DD/DTS/SDDS application, release)

bub2000

Lawrence of Arabia at the York in Toronto. Last showing before it closed down.

Eva Kaine

I can't recall them playing one since that awesome festival they had in the early 90's. I saw Batman (1989), Superman, The Exorcist, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange , Rebel Without a Cause and Casablanca during that one.



Landmark E Street Cinema plays old movies at midnight every single weekend. Tonight it's The Rocky Horror Picture Show and tomorrow it's Spaceballs. Love the theatre, love the midnight crowds there. Always a damn fun time. Easy access by Metro too plus they serve beer, wine, and tea.

Mabuse

Short answer:

- For image, nothing, but the 70mm prints were often processed and timed with more care
- For sound, you could have 6 discrete multi-channel magnetic tracks

Before DD, DTS, SDDS, etc, there was 70mm blowups for select engagements.

Ash Ketchum

I found this list of films shot in 70mm on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_70_mm_films

And I realize that of the ones I've seen, the only ones I caught in 70mm engagements were BATTLE OF THE BULGE and LORD JIM, both 1965. The rest I saw in neighborhood theaters that only had 35mm projection.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE was pretty impressive to this kid, although my father, a WWII vet, ridiculed it at the time. A local film critic standing nearby (this was at an advance screening) overheard the exchange and next day in the Herald Tribune's review of the movie there was a line about how kids would like it, but their fathers who actually fought the war wouldn't be fooled. Something like that.

Years later, I saw it on TV and was puzzled at how quickly the tanks went from snow-covered terrain to the Spanish desert!