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Author Topic: Who is showing film in 2014 by choice? Elena Rossi-Snook Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Jersey City, N.J., U.S.A. Registered: Jan 2014 posted 03-04-2014 09:54 AM                     The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts projects 35mm and 16mm. Also, for those interested, the Film Advocacy Task Force of the Association of Moving Image Archivists has these glow-in-the-dark buttons for those showing film in 2014. If you'd like one, send me an e-mail: filmbat@gmail.com Elena Rossi-Snook Archivist, New York Public Library Chair, AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-04-2014 11:38 AM                     Indiana University Cinema Last time I tallied, we were at about 35% film versus all video formats combined.  |  IP: Logged Kilian Henin Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Registered: Jan 2014 posted 03-04-2014 12:38 PM                  The Toby Theatre in Invermere, BC, Canada. It's a small-town single screen theatre open since 1952 (original projector). It just played the Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The owner is hoping to be able to stay open until the end of this summer. As part of the movie-viewing public, I am quitting going to movie theatres. I just don't like the look of digital (too bright and flat looking). It's sad - I hope the bigger directors with clout can manage the odd film release in the future.  |  IP: Logged Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 03-04-2014 01:38 PM                     The Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre in Skowhegan, Maine is 100% film and proud of it!  |  IP: Logged Jerry Axelsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Stockholm, Sweden Registered: May 2005 posted 03-04-2014 03:44 PM                     I am the manager for three cinemas at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm. We screen 35mm archival prints on a daily basis, reel-to-reel + 16mm and 70mm a few times a year. We just bought two brand new Kinoton FP-30D projectors with three-blade shutters and variable speed from 15-30fps. (just as back-up) Our goal is to continue to project analogue film for 50-100 years.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Wood Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Oxfordshire, United kingdom Registered: Jan 2008 posted 03-04-2014 04:37 PM                     We're running 100% film at this years Chalke Valley History Festival . The remit is it has to be on 35mm , no DCP ! Dedicated cinema showing 12 features over six days . Also the George St Odeon in Oxford retains 35mm in one screen (DP 75)  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-05-2014 06:21 PM                     quote: Jerry Axelsson Our goal is to continue to project analogue film for 50-100 years. Isn't film digital?  |  IP: Logged Jerry Axelsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Stockholm, Sweden Registered: May 2005 posted 03-06-2014 12:49 AM                     Hello Manny, The new stuff is digital... But our 27000 prints in our archive is not. A lot of the things which interests our visitors are only available in analogue prints at this time.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 03-06-2014 06:34 AM                     quote: Manny Knowles Isn't film digital /tech hat on/ One could argue that film is a frame based protocol with the contents of each frame being grains that are analogous to bits. One could also argue that playback is constant bit rate (CBR) as in the highest priority class of service in ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)networks. Be that as it may, I think that argument would be a stretch especially since the "bits" in each frame are physical layer and are not relative to a protocol stack for decoding into an application. One might also argue that the transmission of light through each frame constitutes decoding, but I think that is also a stretch. /tech hat off/  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 04-20-2014 04:42 PM                        quote: Brad Miller I would expect special venues to have the capability of running film for a long, long time. I mean, why pull it? IMO, there was no reason for commercial theaters to pull every last film projector out of their booths. Why couldn't they have kept at least one per multiplex (and maybe kept a second for parts)? It's not like they were getting big dollars by junking them (where are all those film projectors going anyway?)  |  IP: Logged Ben Wales Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Southampton. England Registered: Jul 99 posted 04-20-2014 05:35 PM                     Here in my Home Town Southampton. Harbour Lights Picturehouse 35/70mm Screen One and 35mm in Screen Two, screen the odd 35mm Film mainly in Screen Two on rare ocasions this year. no Projectionist left Trained or know how to screen 70mm at this venue. Cineworld (Ocean Village) Screen 3 35mm (not been used since 2012) The Point (Arts Centre)Eastleigh, will be screening 35mm in May on a 35mm projector, last remaining (Film Only) venue in Hampshire.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-20-2014 10:01 PM                        Brooklyn Center Cinema (Brooklyn NY) 16mm Eastman modified by Full Aperture in Chicago (James Bond) 25B/zenon, 35mm Simplex/Peerless carbon arc -- but in actually, the last piece of film we ran thru the Simplexs was BAT MAN DARK KNIGHT about 3 years ago. Nothing since. There has been talk about installing a Christie, but it's just talk. Truth is, we stopped running film because of lack of interest on the part of the administration. Even if we were to get a digital box, the 35 and 16 machines would remain, at least if I am still there when the Christie goes in. Cantor Theatre, Brooklyn Museum. 16mm Eastman Full Aperture modified 25B, 35mm Simplexes and non-DCI compliant digital. They put in digital and run DVDs -- haven't run film since. The last piece of film thru any of the projectors was the Rolling Stones' COCKSUCKER BLUES (16mm). Last I knew, the Browing Cinema at the DeBartolow Performing Arts Center (Notre Dame) dual 35mm and still run film and were poised to install DCI digital. Aaron, the 35mm machines still in place or did one of them have to go for the digital box? Walter Reede Cinema at Lincoln Center, 35mm, 70mm and digital. Thing is, as has been rightly pointed out here, any facility that keeps their film capability will be solely dependent on archive prints -- these are becoming quite literally, museum artifacts; how long will they be available? Studios are resisting sending whatever they have out and so even with the will to show film, the means continues to become more and more elusive, and it's not for want of a projector.  |  IP: Logged Steve Wilson Expert Film Handler Posts: 109 From: Paoli, IN, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 05-06-2014 11:31 PM                        Print numbers of Captain America was 721 at our theater  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 05-28-2014 03:57 AM                     Just visited the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, CA (just up the 5 along the coast from San Diego) They are still very proudly running 35mm, and intend on continuing until the day they can no longer get film at all. Though they do have a Christie digital to one side for the releases that they can't get a print for now. On the other side of the Christie digital is a 16 as well. Terrific! Single screen run by a really nice guy named Allen. Will definitely be going back.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-28-2014 11:06 AM                        We (American Cinematheque, where I'm now working) show 35 and 70 (DTS regularly, 70 mag occasionally and 35 mag once in a blue moon) regularly in both the Egyptian in Hollywood and the Aero in Santa Monica. We can also play 16mm at the Egyptian, and typically do so to a paying audience once or twice a month. Both venues also have DCP projectors and servers. Both venues have DP70s - AAIIs at the Egyptian and mk. Is, with the two motors, at the Aero (including serial no. 8, built in 1954). For 16mm at the Egyptian we have an FP38E. As I'm not a programmer, I'm not sure how the decision-making process works as to whether to go with film or DCP for titles for which both are available. I suspect that most film prints we show are of older and more obscure titles which don't have a DCP option as yet. We do, however, have a hard core of members and regulars who demand film, and especially 70mm, and so our plans are to carry on playing film regularly for as long as we can. There is an equally vociferous core who complain about bad prints, though, and so we appear to be in the trenches of the film vs. digital war!  |  IP: Logged

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