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Author Topic: 70mm screenings in the UK Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-12-2004 07:52 AM                        Hi all Just to let anyone interested know, City Screen York (UK) are holding 'A celebration of the wide film format- The 70mm Experience' October 30th, November 5th - 7th 2004 Programme so far is as follows. Oct 30th (Late night show) POLTERGEIST Nov 5th (Late night show) EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Nov 4th (Afternoon Matinee) LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Nov 6th TRON THE RIGHT STUFF Film TBC (keep an eye out on here and www.in70mm.com) SPACEBALLS (Late Night show) Nov 7th LAWRENCE OF ARABIA OKLAHOMA! 30fps TODD-AO Film TBC keep an eye out on here and www.in70mm.com) Darren  |  IP: Logged Greg Davis Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Vista, Ca, USA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 09-13-2004 01:03 AM                     Heheh... Tron, Lawrence of Arabia, Poltergeist, and SPACEBALLS. Thats awesome. Almost worth buying a ticket to the UK.  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-14-2004 04:46 AM                        Do it Greg, Ill buy you a beer!  |  IP: Logged Greg Davis Film Handler Posts: 96 From: Vista, Ca, USA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 09-16-2004 12:25 AM                     West coast projectionists get payed in pocket change  |  IP: Logged Gilbert Travin Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Villeurbanne / France Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-16-2004 01:54 AM                        Hi ! You are very very very LUCKY !  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-16-2004 05:18 AM                        You've got less of an excuse than Greg. Jet 2 do cheap flights from Geneva (pretty close to Villeurbanne if my brain hasn't crashed) to Leeds/Bradford Airport, which is only 30 miles from York. Despite there being Yorkshire terriers, Yorkshire humans (by and large) don't bite!  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-20-2004 06:14 PM                        Gilbert. UK is not far from France, could bein York within 8 hours tops! new uk 70mm website for this event. www.uk70mm.com Darren  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-23-2004 07:12 AM                        Darren So Greg lays out £25 to get to the airport, $600 for an air fare and $200 in accomadation, plus buys the movie ticket and takes a week off to do so. And you buy him a £3 beer ? Sounds like a fair trade to me - sounds like you are following company financial policy - Ms G would think be proud of you !  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-23-2004 06:18 PM                        Peter you should know better now, beer at our sites are at least £4.00! Might I see you up in the North in November??? Will be worth a trip, may even buy you a beer or two as well, god i'm feeling faint now with the thought of all that money. Off to lie down, Darren  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-24-2004 07:08 PM                        New addition to the 70mm programme at York West Side Story Sunday 7th at 9pm Tickets on sale now!  |  IP: Logged Peter Hall Master Film Handler Posts: 314 From: London, UK Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-25-2004 04:01 AM                        Mmmm - Natilie Wood, a free beer and some Yorkhire hospitality ! Might be worth it..  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-27-2004 01:51 PM                        Hope you can make it Peter, It's now double Natille Wood. 'Spaceballs' has been replaced with 'BRAINSTORM' Sat 6th November It just gets better!! Darren  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-27-2004 02:16 PM                        ...including 3 new articles from Darren´s hand on www.in70mm.com - very soon. There´s no stopping to this guy!! Btw. Denmark now only has 2½ cinemas left capable of showing 70mm films for 5.387.174 people. Isn´t it terrible? I have to go and live somewhere else - oh, wait a minute, I do that every year during Wide Screen Weekend Even the Danish Film Museum, may it rest in peace , is not interested in 70mm (except a few gentlemen in the library and the projectionists ). They don´t even have 70mm screenings facilities! What kind of museum/Cinematek is that? Only silent b/w, Carl Th. Dreyer and Asta Nielsen movies and Dogma 95 videos has their interest. Anything wider than 35mm is not considered interesting. A typical amateurish Danish - non recommendable - approach. I recommend everyone of FilmTech.com write them an e-mail at dfi@dfi.dk asking for 70mm facilities.  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-27-2004 06:19 PM                        Thanks Thomas, Ill do everything I possibly can to help promote the 70mm film format, as you do too. Lets hope the rumors of the new 65mm production are totally true and this time next year many of us have a 70mm dts print in out premier theatres, run by people who care about film and will ensure a 70mm print is screened with the up most pride just like when films such as Lawrence of Arabia were released in the past. Darren Anyone after 35/70mm projectors should try peter at www.fproj.com . You may find a bargain and be able to screen the 70mm premier format in your cinema!  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-01-2004 09:21 AM                        Thomas - picketing the Danske Filmmuseum probably won't do much good. They've probably all been admitted to a psychiatric hospital after watching too many Dreyer films. That is if they haven't slit their wrists.  |  IP: Logged

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