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70mm Film in Gartenbau Kino
Dates and Films will be announced in
October | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
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02.09.2012 |
The Gartenbau, 31.12.2010. Image by Veronica Gottlieb Mortensen.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
The Gartenbaukino and the Viennale present the first 70mm wide-format film
in Vienna in 20 years
The pinnacle and apotheosis in film projection culture is 70mm. Compared to
the normal 35mm film, the so-called wide-format has three times as much
picture area and thus more richness in detail and scope for higher
resolution. Seventy millimeters is the overpowering experience, a spectacle
of viewing, the epitome of a large and luxurious cinema. The format that has
existed in the cinema industry since the early days was used in extravagant
feature films like Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra
and popular musicals like Sound of Music, West Side Story and My
Fair Lady by studios as a “wonder weapon” against the competition of TV
and the constantly growing pop-cultural competitive offers.
Yet 70mm was too expensive to be able to assert itself consistently in a big
way. It remained an ennobled version of cinema, an exception for cinemas
that were particularly cumbersomely endowed, and for special occasions. The
format was very popular up to the 1970s and then only used again
occasionally – most recently in the films of Terrence Malick or Christopher
Nolan, who were determinedly looking for the outstanding quality and
physique of the analog film grain.
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7OMM at the Gartenbau Kino
The 7OMM Ultra Panavision
Roadshow in Gartenbau Kino, Vienna, Austria
Now showing in 70mm in a theatre
near you!
DP70s in Austria
70mm film projection at the
“Leokino”
Internet link:
Gartenbau Kino
Parkring 12
1010 Vienna
Austria
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At
its opening in the year 1960 with the film Spartacus by Stanley
Kubrick, the Gartenbaukino was the first cinema in Austria to make a profit
out of the technical revolution. The projectors installed back then still do
their job to this day, by the way. Two Philips
DP70 combination
devices for 35mm and 70mm, with the serial numbers 2032 and 2038, frequently
seen as the most stable and reliable projectors of their kind and more or
less unchanged in 50 years.
The last time this wide-format equipment was regularly used was at the end
of the 1980s – and after that, one more time for the screening of the
restored version of Spartacus as part of the Viennale, thus closing
the circle again. Since then, the system has been in repose; the sound
system was disconnected, the screen made smaller, the horizontal lining
affixed.
The year 2012 marks a year of a huge paradigm shift within worldwide cinema
culture. Digitalization is making progress in leaps and bounds; analog
devices are being eliminated; film copies destroyed. Those who can’t accept
the changes get left behind. The Gartenbaukino is one of the few Austrian
cinemas still able to play the 70mm. And especially in this year of supposed
progress, the Viennale and the Gartenbaukino have decided that it is time –
now more than ever – to make it possible in Vienna to relive a chapter of
legendary film culture for the first time in two decades.
Cinema the way it hasn’t been for some time, on the biggest and finest
screen in the city that still has unbeaten picture and sound quality,
despite 3D and digitalization.
VIENNALE, Siebensterngasse 2, A-1070 Wien, Tel: +43 (0)1 526 59 47, Email:
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