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Author Topic: so how many 70mm capable screens ARE there currently? Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-12-2012 02:11 AM                        quote: Adam Martin 5/70 is not Large Format. I never understood the logic behind this, if there is any. But I imagine it's along the same lines of "You can't review movies out on video in the Movie Review forum".  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 09-12-2012 02:30 AM                     quote: Jonathan Goeldner I know that this website/listing is out of date Now only out of date, but just plain bad information on a number of theatres. The Bridge Cinema De Lux hasn't been that in almost two years (it's the Rave 18 now), and doesn't have a 19th screen. The IMAX house is #12. They have the former Plitt/Cineplex Century Plaza listed twice, once in Century City and once in Los Angeles... and with different information in each listing. They also have the Bruin, the Crest and the Village in Westwood listed twice (Los Angeels and Westwood). The Chelsea Cinemas in New York City definitely has nine screens, not eight. The Sutton Twin in New York is closed and demolished (not listed here). Also have the Village VII listed twice, with different information listed in each listing. And those are just the ones I've been to/worked at and remember.  |  IP: Logged Brian Guckian Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 594 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Apr 2003 posted 09-12-2012 06:39 AM                     Great work, Edward, and doubtless those who compile this information always welcome updates and corrections from interested observers  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 09-12-2012 06:59 PM                     Regarding Adam's comment that 70mm is not large format, it depends who you talk to. The giant screen community considers large format to be 8/70,10/70, or 15/70. Some, like myself, extend the definition to specialty anamorphic formats like 8/35 VistaVision and 3-strip Cinerama. However, AMPAAS, the AFI, and on occasion SMPTE, consider 5/70 as a large format.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-12-2012 07:22 PM                     Adam's comment, though, was that for the purposes of these forums that 5/70 isn't a large format (since he is one of the website admins).  |  IP: Logged Jock Blakley Expert Film Handler Posts: 218 From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Registered: Oct 2011 posted 09-12-2012 07:39 PM                     It's sad to go through the list and see all the changes that have often been for the worse. Going through the section for Australia just off the top of my head: The Cremorne Orpheum in NSW has allegedly closed, although I'm not sure if it's distinct from the Hayden Orpheum in Cremorne which has not closed. Either way neither screen 70mm anymore. The Capitol in Melbourne has closed and is now used as a lecture theatre for RMIT University. Hoyts Chadstone went all-digital a few months back; Cinema 5 had its Victoria 8 removed. Hoyts Cinema Centre in Melbourne has closed; Hoyts relocated their operations to Melbourne Central but I'm unsure if 70mm capability went with it. Palace Trak in Melbourne has closed. Village City Centre in Melbourne closed (IIRC when Village moved to Crown Casino in Southbank). Two missing from the list: The Edge Cinema in Katoomba NSW has 70mm capability (or at least had it in December 2011 when they played and didn't take the best care of ALIENS). The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne also has 70mm capability, although I'm unsure of whether it's in both cinemas or just the larger one. We at the Astor in Melbourne of course retain our full 70mm capability, including capacity for DTS 70. We currently hold the only regular 70mm screenings in Australia, and ACMI and Edge are to the best of my knowledge the only other venues that show 70mm even rarely. Oh, and it's probably obvious, but the Hayden Orpheum is quite definitely no longer "currently screening the only existing 70mm print of Baraka" considering that there's at least two extant 70mm prints of BARAKA, and the only one in Australia is kept for the exclusive use of the Astor.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 09-12-2012 10:12 PM                        I'd say that anything larger than either the standard flat/scope 4-perf 35mm should be considered large format because, well, it's obviously larger than the norm. Anything larger than the norm would be "large format" by definition.  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 09-12-2012 11:53 PM                     I've got some old Cineplex Odeon documents from the late 1990s with all the capabilities of all the LA/SF/PHO hardtops. Once I find those, I'll email snorwood with all the corrections I can.  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 09-13-2012 04:05 AM                     I do remember in the 80's being dispatched once in a while out to an Edwards multiplex in Alhambra (CA) and ran plattered 70mm in one of the houses. Simplex, if memory serves... That was fun. I have *no* idea if it's still there.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-14-2012 01:36 PM                        MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams has two Century JJs in manual C/O. Looking at their site they don't seem to have an on-going film program, but that doesn't mean they nixed the projection booth. The whole projection system serves two theatres -- one indoor and another outdoor with a fancy restaurant with tables facing the screen. The projectors were on big dollys in the booth so the whole system could be turned round and aimed at either the ports for the indoor theatre or the ports for the outdoor theatre, which were on opposite walls. Everything interfaced with two imbilicals -- unplug one imbilical, turn the projectors around and face them at the opposite theatre, slide the dolly into registration pins in the floor and plug everything into the other theatre's imbilicle and you were ready to do. In the case of rain, the audience sould be moved from the outdoor to the indoor and the projectors moved with the whole changeover accomplished and ready to hit the screen in under 20min.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-14-2012 09:39 PM                     Jim , Edward's Alhambra Place is gone. And yes it was a Simplex 35/70. They had a Norelco AA in the Temple City till the operator cut part of his finger off and they then put in a Simplex 35/70.  |  IP: Logged Paul Linfesty Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1383 From: Bakersfield, CA, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-14-2012 09:47 PM                     Interestingly, the Landmark's website had stated that THE MASTER was playing in Digital and 70mm, now it states that it is playing in Digital and 35mm.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-15-2012 12:56 AM                     Maybe they trashed the print.  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 09-15-2012 02:46 AM                     quote: Bill Gabel They had a Norelco AA in the Temple City till the operator cut part of his finger off and they then put in a Simplex 35/70. He *WHAT*?????  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-15-2012 10:56 AM                     I'd bet OSHA was involved in that decision. No warning labels on the gate maybe?  |  IP: Logged

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