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Author Topic: Interstellar locations running in 70MM Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-28-2014 11:44 PM                        Thanks for posting that link, Geoff. It makes me want to see Interstellar at a theater now even though my only choice is digital unless I go to the Alamo. But I hear that proper masking confuses those guys. IMAX at Colorado Center is certainly out of the question. Who knows... maybe Regal will sell themselves by then and be under more qualified management!  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 10-30-2014 02:38 PM                        Does anyone here know anything about the Willow Creek 12 near Minneapolis? I might have an opportunity to travel to MN in a couple of weeks and was wondering if it would be worth checking out a 5-perf 70MM Interstellar showing while I was there...  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-30-2014 03:30 PM                     Well, there's this video and also this video. to give you an idea of their setup. Looks like an existing theater, probably from the late 80s with an original Simplex 3570 machine that the projectionist has flipped/swapped around to run 70mm on. They haven't handled 70mm in over 20 years, and the projectionist running it may or may not have been around at that time, so who knows how this will go for them. Speaking of Interstellar and 70mm, this is about the sexiest thing I've seen in a long time.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 10-30-2014 06:41 PM                     quote: Brad Miller They haven't handled 70mm in over 20 years, and the projectionist running it may or may not have been around at that time, so who knows how this will go for them. Although the guy seems to be seriously trying, it all feels a little bit helpless. They really should try to get someone experienced in there for some training. quote: Brad Miller Speaking of Interstellar and 70mm, this is about the sexiest thing I've seen in a long time. And what theater will end up with lucky number 7? Those locks don't look like a real challenge though, your hands must be all itchy now. And remember, your name and fame will now always be connected with print #7.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-30-2014 07:30 PM                        They actually put a fake title on the 70mm prints?  |  IP: Logged Matthew McBride Film Handler Posts: 97 From: Tupelo, MS USA Registered: Oct 2011 posted 10-30-2014 07:47 PM                     I can't imagine it gets sexier than that at all.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-30-2014 08:29 PM                     quote: Scott Norwood They actually put a fake title on the 70mm prints? Yup, the leaders have a fake name too (and are unusually short for a 70mm print). What's typical of "fake name cans" is however the big pieces of tape on some of the cases that read "INTERSTELLAR" which arrived like that. quote: Marcel Birgelen And remember, your name and fame will now always be connected with print #7. Yeah, until some moron plays the film after me and scratches it.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-30-2014 08:48 PM                        Presumably that's an Imax and not a 5/70 print? If 5/70, each reel can only be about 5-6 minutes long, given the total length of the movie. As for the security and false names, what a joke. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any 70mm scanners or telecines in existence at all. I've seen a 65mm spirit, but you physically couldn't get 70mm stock through the gate. Whereas I can understand a certain amount of security paranoia surrounding the 35mm prints (standard def 35mm telecines and scanners can be picked up for next to nothing, which is all you'd need to make pirate DVDs), a 70mm print would be quite simply impossible to copy, I'd have thought.  |  IP: Logged Jarod Reddig Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 513 From: Hays, Ks Registered: Jun 2011 posted 10-30-2014 09:06 PM                     Man im so bummed i won't be able to see this in 70mm. Wish I had it in my schedule to take a trip down to Texas.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-30-2014 10:36 PM                     Des Moines has it in 70mm Imax... I plan to drive to Dallas for this over a weekend... Want me to come pick you up? I imagine they'll have it a while, and I trust Brad and his crew enough to not screw it up for the length of the engagement. It'll probably look BETTER after a couple weeks. Brad should totes schedule a Film-Tech screening night/booth tour!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-31-2014 12:28 AM                     Leo, yes that is a 5/70 print...3 of them to be exact. Also while there is no telecine, even the most phenomenal CAP coding and digital encryption can't stop someone from pointing a camera at the screen. I think that would understandably be the big concern at this point. So while a 70mm print wouldn't be as easy to copy as a 35mm, it could be done ghetto-style. Buck, I'm happy to give tours if I know you're coming and I happen to be working the theater on the day you arrive. Reel 8 will be interesting. As I was inspecting them I saw the timecode simply disappears towards the end of reel 8A...gone...poof! Then it comes back at the start of reel 8B. I can only hope the dts can "glide" over it instead of dropping to total silence from lack of timecode. Surely it can, as somebody must've QC's this before they made the prints. (Its in the negative that way, so it will affect all prints.) It's interesting also that the image goes right to the sprockets (past where the internal magnetic tracks would sit and also as a result, past where the gates of most machines can even project. It's not a big deal as we're talking a super tiny amount of image there, but at least there won't be any of the random "hard matte edges" popping into the edges of the image like happened with Titanic the way these are printed.  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 10-31-2014 07:14 AM                        Always great to see loads of 70mm cans. Last time I saw that many was when we did a 70mm festival in 2010. Heres some pictures for the Film-Tech archive.  |  IP: Logged Paul H. Rayton Expert Film Handler Posts: 210 From: Los Angeles, CA , USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-02-2014 03:26 PM                    I had the good luck (or misfortune) to run a 35mm print of "Interstellar" yesterday. I know this thread has to do with 70mm prints, but this same observation may be common to the 70mm prints, as well -- though probably not. The issue: in the 35mm prints, the changeover cues are extremely dark in many places, and the first one (the motor start cue at the end of R.1) is well-nigh invisible. I just mention this to all who might be enountering this movie as a single reel, changeover-type presentation, to check carefully for the cue(s). Of course, the 70mm prints may have the cues applied manually instead of printed-in cues from the IN as on the 35s, but the word to the wise would be: confirm that you can see the cues, esp. at the ends of reels 1, and 6 and 7!  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-02-2014 04:50 PM                     Paul, that comment should probably have been put in the section on "Feature Info". So how good was the printing job? Steady/sharp?  |  IP: Logged Paul H. Rayton Expert Film Handler Posts: 210 From: Los Angeles, CA , USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 11-02-2014 05:11 PM                    (Maybe one of the moderators will move the posting -- that's above my pay grade). The printing of "Interstellar" looked fine, to me. 'Course, I was almost 100' back from the screen... Really, I suspect the prints shouldn't have many issues, if for no other reason than that FotoKem (who made them) probably does not utilize those notorious super high speed printers that were common for the mass-producers of release prints (e.g., Deluxe and Technicolor), back in the days of release print runs of 5000 prints for a single title. Colors: typical desaturated tones for many interiors, and nice and sharp.  |  IP: Logged

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