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Topic: Tiff sets winter schedule: with a *NEW* 70mm print of 2001
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Tom Petrov
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posted 11-09-2010 01:46 AM
Don't you 70mm just wish you lived in Toronto.
I thought I heard somewhere on this board, that they don't make 70mm prints anymore. Not sure how true the article is.
Enjoy!
TIFF Bell Lightbox Sets Winter Schedule
TIFF Bell Lightbox has set their winter slate of programming running from November 25 to February 2.
Exhibitions include “Tim Burton,” organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, offering a glimpse into the mind of one of the world’s most influential filmmakers and artists, and “Mary Pickford and the Invention of the Movie Star,” the inaugural exhibition in TIFF’s new Canadian Film Gallery.
TIFF Cinematheque presents retrospectives on Charlie Chaplin, Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci and Jafar Panahi, one of the major figures of the New Iranian Cinema as well as the relaunch of The Free Screen, featuring a retrospective of Spanish experimental film.
The season also includes a lineup of contemporary and classic films that will have exclusive engagements of at least one week at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Titles include Lucy Walker, Karen Harley & Joao Jardim’s Waste Land (2009); Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme (2010); Julie Taymor’s The Tempest (2010); Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) in 3-D, and a new 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Other highlights include Canada’s Top Ten, TIFF’s annual celebration of excellence in national cinema.
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I will be watching one of the movies (Playtime)they will be playing in 70mm thats for sure. I might just check out 2001 as well.
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Frank Angel
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posted 11-09-2010 03:52 AM
"New" as in one of the two prints Warners struck for re-released in 2003? Or in "new" as in this has been struck for this engagement and hasn't been run anywhere else or at least not run enough to have been marred by other engagements?
At $23,000 a pop (the cost of striking each of the prints in 2003) which is what an exec at Warner told me it cost them to strike new prints back then, I would be surprised if this will be a spanking new, unreeling out of the lab "new" print. It could be, but I would bet it's not, given the costs involved and the dimisinshing potential for a decent profit/return on the dollar that the title can garner.
BTW, the very second theatre that played one of the two 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 2003 prints severely damaged it -- and I am talking huge gashs across the screen in a fade out! And that was a New York theatre, since demolished, where supposedily there would have been knowledgeable, seasoned union projectionists handling that print.
All I'm saying is....if it were my $23,000 that I had to shell out to strike a new print, and seeing the spectre of it never having enough engagements to ever recoup that money as well as the ever increasing possibilty that it could be trashed sooner rather than later due to fewer and fewer venues that can properly handle 70mm, I sure as hell would tell the TIFF they will have to be happy playing the 2003 print and be glad they've got that. Besides, 2003 in 70mm years is like last week.
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Frank Angel
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posted 11-09-2010 09:14 AM
Yes it was. And you know how I know? Because I saw the very last screening on the very last night. It came on screen out-of-
frame and with that tell-tale warble in the sound that was so bad I knew immediately the film wasn't threaded tightly enough around the stablizer drum, and I knew I was in for a very stressful night.
I went up to the booth where a lad about 19 in a high school jacket was sitting OUTSIDE the booth....no one was inside, so I complained to him, "Can't you HEAR that?! And can't you FREAKIN SEE IT'S OUT OF FRAME?," to which he said he wasn't supposed to go in the booth "except if the film 'flew off.'" Then he was supposed to "switch" to the second machine. "What?" says I.
I looked into the booth and saw they were running a second, back-up, 35mm print. Evidently they had had lots of problems already with the 70mm print and thus the second platter running 35mm in tandem. I asked where was the projectionist, to which he replied with that spaced-out look only a teenage can get on his face, "Oh, he only comes in on Thursday and Fridays."
And THAT, Bob, is how I know you are right!
I called Warner's the next morning and ranted -- told them they now have a 70mm print that has ALREADY been damaged. He said (with a kind of proud sound in his voice -- like they had come up with a great solution), "THAT'S why we sent the backup 35mm print."
To which I said, mustering up the most sarcastic tone I could, "Wow, BRILLIANT! But maybe you should have just hired a REAL projectionist to stay with your just struck, $23,000 print INSIDE the booth throughout the engagement."
He replied, as if I had just come up with a Mensa International solution, "Yah, I guess that would be cheaper."
"Gee, ya THINK?!!
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Frank Angel
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posted 12-06-2010 11:36 AM
Seriously considering it Tom. And thanks for the offer, but being in the art house end of the industry and knowing first hand what kind of an economic struggle it is to bring the classics to the screen, I feel it's only right to support art houses that are running the classics alive, and on film no less, by paying my way, but thank you again.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is one of my favorite films of all time and the seminal film that opened Brooklyn Center Cinema and my very first booking in 1971. We have played it multiple engagements over the years. Unfortunately we've only been able to run it in 35mm, first with 4trk mag -- which sounded remarkably close to the six track mix except for the 12k trigger for the surrounds, later that was eliminated when Turner struck new prints), and in the later years in Dolby SR. Finally last year with a Dolby Digital print with the new 2002 remixed track. That engagement was followed by a Q&A with Keir Dullea himself -- quite an CinEvent indeed.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - CinEvent at Brooklyn Center Cinema
Seeing again in 70mm for me, at least -- I know not everyone is a fan -- will be a super treat and worth a trip up to the frozen tuntra to see it.
I have seen it in Cinerama (twice), once in Dimension 150 as well; I'm not sure if the deeply curved screens are a better experience or not, and more than likely, it will never be shown on a curved Cinerama screen ever again, so depending on one's aesthetic sensibilities, that's either a minus or a plus.
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