Lawrence of Arabia and Grand Prix for sure. Possibly 2001. Probably some others, but I can't recall nowadays.

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^ I want 'Grand Prix' on bluray - what's the hold out Warners?? :mad:

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2001: A Space Odyssey (3 times)
Lawrence of Arabia
Aliens
Playtime
Apocalypse Now
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

And maybe a few more. Also noteworthy, but not in 70mm, is that I've seen one of five Technicolor-processed prints of Star Wars.

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I'm extremely jealous right now. How'd you manage to do this? I know you work for a theater but I don't see them jut passing out Technicolor prints...

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how does the Technicolor prints differ from standard 35mm prints of 'Star Wars'?

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This one needs to be in 70mm, just for the irony
http://www.stardustdvd.com/catalog/images/8mm.jpg

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They are die transfer prints from 1978. Die transfered prints are like a hand assembled car. Each one is made, one at a time, with the supervision of the director or the DP, and that person examins the color timing and quality of each shot and litterally signs off that they approve the print. The prints are the benchmark of the filmmakers intent. Die transfer prints do not fade, so a 30 year old die transfer print still looks just like it did when it was new.

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oh much thanks for that explanation Mabuse

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^ AFI Silver has shown 'Lawrence' quite a few times in the last five years - it's very popular.

For me, 1963* during the original theatrical run and 1989, when the restored print was re-released.



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The film school I went to, the North Carolina School of the Arts (now University of North Carolina School of the Arts) has one in their permanent collection, as does Kodak, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and IIRC the Library of Congress.

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Sadly, no theatres close to where I live are able to play 70mm movies.

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^ yet not alot of 'current' movies can hold a candle to 'Lawrence of Arabia' - every little aspect of that movie is high art. From what I've read about it it was both a critical and audience favourite from it's initial release.

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The ONLY movie I'm sure that was in 70mm was "Far and Away" and that was only because they had signs up. All the others.... I was a kid and never really knew what 70mm was. Wouldn't have cared. I went to a theater to see a movie.

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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA was a huge hit when it came out and the Best Picture Oscar winner for that year (1962). In New York, it played downtown at one of the Broadway movie palaces (the Criterion, I think) for at least a year before it came to the neighborhood showcase theaters in the outer boroughs. I know I saw it with my siblings in the Fall of 1963 at the Loew's Paradise, the one movie palace still operating in the Bronx at the time. (I was in 5th Grade.) The big deal for me with LAWRENCE was the spectacle of it, and the all-star cast. But you should know that I saw it in the same season I saw JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, THE GREAT ESCAPE, THE LONGEST DAY and EL CID, all at neighborhood theaters (and JASON and MUTINY also at the Paradise). Epics were a popular genre at the time. I loved them all, esp. GREAT ESCAPE, LONGEST DAY and EL CID. At the time WEST SIDE STORY and GREAT ESCAPE became my two favorite films.

(Of course, I also saw BEACH PARTY, DEMENTIA 13, and X-THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES that same season. And earlier in the year, SAMSON AND THE SEVEN MIRACLES, DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, SON OF FLUBBER and MIRACLE OF THE WHITE STALLIONS. And a class trip to HOW THE WEST WAS WON--in Cinerama!)

What a year for a budding film buff.

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One that hasn't been mentioned is Branagh's Hamlet. It played at the Avalon in D.C.

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^ of course I didn't see 'Hamlet' in the theatre, and the Avalon is a neighborhood theatre for me as well.

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sure even at a young age, I'd see movies where ever and whenever possible - but being a Washingtonian, one always knew that the best place to see and hear a movie was the Uptown and the Cinema - 70mm (as well as it's variants) was the IMAX of it's time - newspaper ads exclaiming 70mm/6-track sound were a major push and factor - nowadays the art of marketing in publication form is a dead artform (it's all internet based now)

Your point is well taken. I was about 9½ or 10 when I saw it and I have seen the movie several times since, so I can no longer separate my initial impressions from the later viewings. Movies I saw as an adult, and really liked, such as Star Wars or Empire Strikes Back, are much easier to remember as a theater-going experience even though it was many years ago. [The same is true for the two movies I really hated, BTW; I vividly remember the details: where, who I was with, and so forth.]
LoA is a very different movie from the sort of thing that is done nowadays and I agree that almost everything about it was "high art". David Lean was famous for being a master of such movies (The Bridge on the River Kwai anyone?) Those long steady shots, the extended character development, the cinematograpy, the old style "cast of thousands", even the intermission (remember those?) are just not done much, if at all, anymore. Many movies now use quick cuts, shakey-cam and other techniques that seem to be oriented to short attention spans (being an old fogey I blame video games :) ). Consider the famous shot where the rider and camel approach the camera over a long period of time, growing from just a spec on the horizon. Would movie-goers today sit still for such a static scene? I think not; the cell phones would be out and they'd be texting away like mad. IMHO, of course.

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I think the only director who now a days puts no time restrictions or stylistic compromises is Bela Tarr - who I even must admit, his 'The Man from London' made me at one point want to throw something at the screen. (I have yet to endure his 7 hour magnum opus 'Satantango')

in regards to films with massive running times, I'm still upset that I somehow missed the 70mm engagement of Sergei Bondarchuk's 1965's adaptation of 'War and Peace' at the AFI Silver a few years back (at a full 8 hours in length)

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it wasn't filmed in 70mm, but the 35mm blowup of Ghostbusters is being shown at the end of this month at the AFI Silver

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The Master.
The Ten Commandments (at Paramount Studios a couple of years ago)

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I also caught The Master in 70mm. And of course The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Transformers 2 all had 70mm IMAX footage.

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Yeah, saw the Batman films in IMAX, as well.

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really?! oh I'm jealous, the one time I saw this on the big screen over at the KB Cinema it was only a 35mm print.