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We recently concluded our halloween/panic film series with quite the pairing, an amusing contrast to observe on screen.
a 27 year old Rodriguez personal 35mm print of "From Dusk Till Dawn". Had to cut the locks off the cans cause he had long ago lost the keys. Might have been run one other time?
Other than perhaps some age color drift or lab work that had it feeling slightly moving towards the orange, it was immaculate. At least in the picture area not a scratch and could probably count the dust blips on one hand.
Then followed it with the "Mystery" screening, 2nd half of the double feature after the Q&A with Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero.
"Planet Terror". screened digitally from the Blu-Ray.
Which, if you haven't seen it, was shot on HD Video, but in post celebrates continuously throughout the film every single visual aberration possible from the analog grind-house era and abusive operators and worn out prints. It is quite the tour de force of scratches, dust, bounce, tape-residue, audio sync, brightness shifts, lamp flicker, print discoloration, framing mistakes, forgetting to close a gate, film breaks, burn thrus, missing reels, thick splices, showing bits of leaders... just to name a few I identified. The opening sequence and crawl are worth a watch on their own if you don't want to sit through the whole film, but any film projectionist would enjoy trying to watch for it all, the where's waldo of all possible mistakes.
Just the irony presenting a vintage print that looks better than digital, and a digital film intended to look as bad as analog possibly could and still play.
Apparently Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero also were making similar comments backstage.
It wasn't as easy to notice from the booth monitor, but I believe the audio got the full treatment of intentional mistakes too.
a 27 year old Rodriguez personal 35mm print of "From Dusk Till Dawn". Had to cut the locks off the cans cause he had long ago lost the keys. Might have been run one other time?
Other than perhaps some age color drift or lab work that had it feeling slightly moving towards the orange, it was immaculate. At least in the picture area not a scratch and could probably count the dust blips on one hand.
Then followed it with the "Mystery" screening, 2nd half of the double feature after the Q&A with Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero.
"Planet Terror". screened digitally from the Blu-Ray.
Which, if you haven't seen it, was shot on HD Video, but in post celebrates continuously throughout the film every single visual aberration possible from the analog grind-house era and abusive operators and worn out prints. It is quite the tour de force of scratches, dust, bounce, tape-residue, audio sync, brightness shifts, lamp flicker, print discoloration, framing mistakes, forgetting to close a gate, film breaks, burn thrus, missing reels, thick splices, showing bits of leaders... just to name a few I identified. The opening sequence and crawl are worth a watch on their own if you don't want to sit through the whole film, but any film projectionist would enjoy trying to watch for it all, the where's waldo of all possible mistakes.
Just the irony presenting a vintage print that looks better than digital, and a digital film intended to look as bad as analog possibly could and still play.
Apparently Rodriguez and Greg Nicotero also were making similar comments backstage.
It wasn't as easy to notice from the booth monitor, but I believe the audio got the full treatment of intentional mistakes too.