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Widescreen Weekend 2014
Pictureville, Bradford, England |
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The 70mm Newsletter
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Written by: NMM Press Release,
Sarah Jarvis |
Date: 02.09.2013 + 13.04.2014 |
 Dear
All
I hope this finds you well and you are finding time to watch plenty of
movies where they deserve to be seen – on the big screen. This is just a
quick update to let you know the dates for next year’s Bradford
International Film Festival and Widescreen Weekend.
Bradford International Film Festival will take place from 27 March – 6
April followed by Widescreen Weekend from 10 – 13 April 2014.
The one change to note here is that Widescreen Weekend commences on
Thursday evening (as opposed to Friday) with a double bill and concludes
after the last show on Sunday evening, so the Monday slot has now in
effect moved to Thursday.
We will be announcing programme information in January 2014 and will be
in touch in December to update you and let you know when passes will be
on sale.
We hope to see you all next year as we celebrate the joys of wide gauge
film once again.
Happy cinema going,
The Festival Team
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More in 70mm reading:
• Widescreen Weekend 2014,
images by Ulrich Rostek
• Introduction by Wolfram
Hannemann
• Attending the
Widescreen Weekend from 10 to 13 April 2014
•
"Audience on Stage"
•
Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, England
•
in70mm.com's Cinerama page
•
Cinerama Remaster
Internet link:
National Media Museum
Widescreen Weekend 2014
devildead.com
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December 2013 Update
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Widescreen Weekend – WSW 2014 (10-13
April) will pay homage to the 60th anniversary of the
VistaVision
process which was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954 as
a higher resolution widescreen variant of 35mm. Rendered commercially
obsolete after only seven years, its heritage is still relevant today as
it became a creative testing ground for many high resolution
cinematographic ideas which evolved into 70mm formats such as IMAX which
are still in use. Other highlights of WSW include: "West Side Story"
(70mm with original 6-track mix); "Big Trouble in Little China"
(70mm), and European Premieres for new digitally
remastered versions of
the Cinerama classics
"Seven Wonders of the World" and "Search
for Paradise".
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January 2014 Update
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 Passes
are on sale now
• £99 (Full price adult)
• £79 (Concession)
I have attached a Pictureville Seating Layout and a
Booking Form. If you would
like to attend this year please fill out the form and send it back to
this
address. Seats are given on a first come first served basis. More
information is available
here. The full Weekend programme will be announced on 26th February
2014
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Full Program
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 Weekend 2014 once again celebrates the joys of large format
film making in many guises. Cinerama pioneers
Dave Strohmaier
and Randy Gitsch
return to our shores once more and enable us to screen their two final
digital remasters of the
historic 3-panel travelogues, with Seven Wonders of the World and
Search for Paradise – both showing on Pictureville’s deeply
curved, louvered Cinerama screen.
VistaVision celebrates its 60th birthday in 2014 and we pay tribute to
this widescreen process from Paramount, with a screening of the very
first film made in the process White Christmas, showing from a
pristine 2K digital print.
Luxurious 70mm film screenings will include The Big Blue (UK
theatrical cut), West Side Story (featuring the original
sound mix utilising all five stage channels) and a first Widescreen
Weekend viewing of John Carpenter’s fun tribute to the martial arts
genre, Big Trouble in Little China.
Professor Sir Christopher Frayling will present an illustrated talk on
the widescreen aesthetics of Sergio Leone, with particular emphasis on
the Italian ‘Spaghetti’ Western. This will be combined with a 35mm
screening of For A Few Dollars More (1965) which features
wonderful use of the widescreen Techniscope format and Christopher
Frayling will also be signing copies of his recent books including
Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death.
WSW 2014 introduces the Student Widescreen Film of the Year, presented
in collaboration with the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television
Society.
And it wouldn’t be the Widescreen Weekend without informative
introductions, and the ever-popular surprises of Cineramacana. You can
also enjoy a 4K digital version of Sidney Pollack’s The Way We Were
which features the wonderful partnership of Robert Redford and Barbra
Streisand and which received two key Oscar nominations; Streisand (best
actress) and Harry Stradling Jr for his sumptuous wide screen
cinematography, plus an Oscar win for best score by Marvin Hamlisch.
Thursday 10 April
17:30 White Christmas (120 mins)
20:10 The Big Blue (132 mins) 70MM
Friday 11 April
10:05 Seven Wonders of the World (121 mins + intermission)
13:00 Fortress Of Peace: Digitally Restoring 70mm Prints For The Curved
Screen (60 mins)
15:00 Student Widescreen Film of The Year (90 mins)
16:50 Big Trouble in Little China (99 mins) 70MM
18:45 Delegate Reception (75 mins)
20:00 The Way We Were (118 mins)
Saturday 12 April
10:00 Remembering Widescreen (45 mins)
11:15 Searching For Paradise Illustrated Presentation by David Coles (30
mins)
13:00 Search For Paradise (120 mins + intermission)
16:00 The Widescreen Aesthetics of Sergio Leone – Presentation Professor
Sir Christopher Frayling + For A Few Dollars More (162 mins)
18:40 Professor Sir Christopher Frayling – Book Signing (60 mins)
19:40 West Side Story (152 mins + intermission)
70MM
Sunday 13 April
10:00 Cineramacana (120 mins)
13:15 City Heat (97 mins) 70MM
15:30 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (137 mins) 70MM
19:00 It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (192 mins + intermission)
70MM
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2014 Cineramacana Programme
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On the flat screen:
• Two Dolby Atmos trailers:
Leaf Trailer +
Unfold Trailer
• 35mm White
Christmas trailer.
• Gravity in 60
seconds (in DCP) by Michael Hall.
• "Grand Prix" trailer
• Lotus,
computer animation by Glenn Marshall.
• I Only Know What I
Believe, a timelapse short by Grant Wakefield.
• A tribute to the recently deceased compiled by projectionist Tom
Perkins.
• A clip from a 70mm pink print of "The Lion in Winter" with
Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
• "Sky over Holland", a short film by John Fernhout. Originally
in 70mm, but now
digitally restored.
• Song: "The Lusty Month of May", a clip from a pink 70mm print of
"Camelot".
• Raffles draw, a giveaway of some copies of the Windjammer soundtrack
on CD to randomly selected members of the audience.
On the curved screen:
• The Cinerama Renault Dauphine commercial, this time in a
photochemically restored version.
• One reel from a 70mm print of "My Fair Lady", featuring the
songs "I Could Have Danced All Night" and "Ascot Gavotte".
• "How the West Was Won" Cinerama Trailer.
• Johan Wolthuis presents The Golden Elephant Award to David Strohmaier
and (absent) Bill Lawrence.
• Audience on Stage photograph.
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