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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 02-06-2016 09:13 PM

Tarantino has a Tourette's thing going on with the n-word, doesn't he? I stopped counting after 30 utterances of it in one reel alone.

Given that Peter Jackson's squeamishness on that front has caused him pretty much to give up trying to remake The Dam Busters, maybe Tarantino could take that project over? The only problem is that he'd have to change the story such that Guy Gibson's infamous black Labrador did not have his accident just before the raid flight begins, because then there would be at least three or four reels in which Tarantino would have no excuse for any n-words in the script.

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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1661
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted 02-07-2016 06:59 PM

quote:
(Scott Norward on 12/30/15) : AMC Boston Common is handing out little
pieces of 70mm film (real film, but obviously made just for this promotion)
as souvenirs; they are about 6" long and contain several different frames
(probably production stills, actually) from the movie

Possibly one of these? .

I just got several from a private source.

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Buck Wilson
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: St. Joseph MO, USA
Registered: Sep 2010

posted 02-07-2016 08:49 PM

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!? I want one!

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-08-2016 12:52 PM

Jim--that is it. I never got one, but most or all of the customers did.

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Ari Leedsw
Film Handler

Posts: 53
From: Stoughton, MA
Registered: Feb 2016

posted 02-22-2016 11:46 AM

@Mitchell Dvoskin: Re: Paramus NJ, no that wasn't from a bad buildup. Some bad failsafes when the projector shut down and the film did not stop on a dime.

Source: One of that print's projectionists.

LOL, I've seen the film that was in the incident you describe. It was kept as a souvenir.

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Rob J. Buskop
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 111
From: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2005

posted 03-17-2016 11:40 AM

Very interesting to hear a few commentators rave about the picture quality. I suspect they've fallen for "The emperor's new cloths.." I've seen the premier in Amsterdam, in the EYE film museum where every detail in the technical set-up had been meticulously attended to. Proper masking, new Schneider optics etc. etc. For an old and rather experienced viewer as myself, the picture quality was nowhere near what it used to be like in the 1960-ties. It looked good, but... not really like what it could have been. Really far from it! These prints were made via intermediates and dupe negs, and so you were watching the 4th generation of the original elements. When 70mm was really 70mm, the prints were struck from the edited camera neg!
Oddly enough they showed a digital trailer of "Hail Caesar" ahead of the roadshow. It was 100x sharper with greater detail and depth than the feature. Even the titles that spelled out "Overture" were somewhat soft.
I liked the whole set-up but as an example what 70mil used to look like it completely failed for obvious reasons.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 03-17-2016 11:52 AM

I would suspect the anamorphic was not precisely adjusted. If the astigmatism is off by just a tiny bit, the entire sharpness of the image is killed, even though it may not look like it is out of alignment.

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Jim Cassedy
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Dec 2006

posted 03-17-2016 12:24 PM

Rob- I agree with what Brad said in his post.

Im fact, I found the overture card to be a great focusing aid.

If I could get the little stagecoach silhouette at the bottom
of the screen in focus, I knew the rest of the image would be
sharp. In fact, I found the first several minutes of the film,
with it's bright snow-scene images to be a great indicator of
'quality control'. Any hair/dirt in the aperture or on the film,
or any scratches that might have somehow occurred were
immediately apparent, as would any lamphouse issues too.

I would watch those first few minutes intently every show,
looking for signs of 'trouble' .

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John Wilson
Film God

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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 04-15-2016 01:22 AM

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