Giles

oh and on a side note, did anyone catch last Saturday's night's ABC presentation of The Sound of Music? In Hi-Definition? I would love to hear if the HiDef edition was better than the new DVD edition, if it used the same video master (for the DVD) or a 65mm print source?

gfoots

Another thing, the larger format film should require a lot more light during filming which will also raise the cost of production.

MBoyd

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22118

So Malick's new film is shot "mostly" on 65mm according to Aint It Cool. Where can we see it on 70mm?

EDIT: Eh, I guess we won't. IMDB says "select" scenes shot on 65mm and the film is printed on 35mm.

Giles

Last saturday I saw a Todd-AO 70mm print of Hello, Dolly! at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre - and, oh.. my ... stars! The colors! the sound! FANTASTIC! The hat store, the Harmonia Gardens - the beginning of the parade had my hairs on my neck stand up - I had forgotten how visually stunning 70mm was, this was my first Todd-AO 'experience'. Can't wait to see how Todd-AO 30fps will look on the new upcoming HiDef DVD's - come on Fox, replicate these films for reference quality demo HD-discs.

dyerjp

i remember seeing lawrence of arabia and blade runner at the Uptown in DC in 70 mm about 15 or 16 yrs ago. it was fantasitc! i love that theater, too bad i live too far from DC now, well only about an hour or so.

scott shelton

Minnesota 70MM fans...

http://www.heightstheater.com/movies.cfm?id=347

Giles

Blade Runner was great in 70mm - I remember they also showed West Side Story and Alien in 70mm as well.

dyerjp

yeah, i was there when they had alien. it was awesome. i need to move back to that area.