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Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 02-05-2004, 04:14 AM:

in70mm.com's official UNofficial Wide Screen Weekend web site
has been updated. The 2004 program has been uploaded.

Also keep an eye on the official website for the March 2004 events.

Thursday 18

7:00 Richard Todd
7:45 The Longest Day

Friday 19
10:15 This is Cinerama
1:30 Lion In Winter
4:00 Tom Vincent = VV
4:30 Williamsburg
5:00 Reception
5:50 Vertigo (VV)
8:15 Lord Jim

Saturday 20
10:30 Cinerama's Russian Adventure
1:30 War And Peace (VV)
4:30 Herbert Lom + Jack Cardiff
6:30 John Belton: The Curved screen
7:15 It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Sunday 21
10:00 Cineramacana
1:00 Hamlet
5:00 Alex Thompson
6:00 Dion Hanson, Perspecta Sound
6:30 Forbidden Planet
8:30 Earthquake

Monday 22
10:30 55 Days at Peking in French

[ 03-04-2004, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Thomas Hauerslev ]

Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 03-04-2004, 01:46 AM:

Two weeks to go - anyone from FT attending?

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-04-2004, 02:09 AM:

I suppose so if I really must [Roll Eyes]

Hopefully this year no major diseases will keep me away [puke]

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 03-04-2004, 05:25 AM:

I don't think I can make it, [Frown]

work are sending me on a training course the next week, and I doubt if I can get back in time, unless I can get to Sheffield, from where there is an overnight bus at 01:45.

Is 'Forbidden Planet' being run in Perspecta? It was at the Loew's Jersey two years ago, but I don't know if all the optical prints had it. I think it also had a 4-track release.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-04-2004, 05:52 AM:

Yes Stephen we are screening Forbidden Planet in Perspecta Sound. Dion Hanson is making a brie fintro before the film.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-04-2004, 08:29 AM:

Sadly I'm involved in organising a conference which is taking place over the same weekend (we just couldn't manage it so that it didn't clash with something). Hope the WSWW goes well and good luck to Darren for his 'rumblerama'...

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 03-04-2004, 10:36 AM:

I assume that you'll be running it with one of Dion's cards then; I've got one of them myself, last used it about a year ago. The Loew's ran it with an original (refurbished) integrator. There was much debate at the time as to how closely the new cards emulate this, in functional terms.

I think 'Forbidden Planet' is about the best use of Perspecta that I have heard, pity I don't think I'll be able to be there, I'll have to look into late trains and buses, and see if there's any way I can do it.

What I would like to hear is the version of the 'Around the World in Eighty Days' track which used a slightly modified Perspecta on the surround magnetic track to give three surround channels. Given that this would have been mainly effects, it might have been quite effective.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 03-18-2004, 07:12 AM:

More from Mr. Hauerslev:

quote:
Dear all,

The Widescreen Weekend ( http://www.in70mm.com/wide_screen_weekend/index.htm )
in Bradford, England starts today. I fly in this afternoon for a weekend of
film, fun, beers and a great curry.

Official Widescreen web is here:
http://www.bradfordfilmfestival.org.uk/2004/whatson_ww.asp

To celebrate the weekend, I´ve made two special editions of ..in70mm.com -
The 70mm Newsletter. The magazines, two 4-page paper magazines (Issues 68
and 69), will be destributed exclusively in Pictureville during the weekend.

Those of you not attending, you can download a PDF copy of both here:
http://www.in70mm.com/newsletter/diverse/back_issues.htm

The new articles are also avaiable on-line at http://www.in70mm.com of course.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

Best wishes
Thomas

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-18-2004, 09:30 AM:

Darren: good luck for Sunday and mind you don't destroy Dick's lovely cinema!

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-18-2004, 09:47 AM:

We laugh at Mr Briggs puny speakers! [Big Grin]

They are as but a tiny breeze when compared to the hurricane strength after effects of Bradford's finest curries [Eek!]

If our cinema can withstand those then we should be fine.

Seriously thanks Darren for making the earth move for me [Wink]

Posted by Gilbert Travin (Member # 2138) on 03-19-2004, 01:39 AM:

[Mad]

I wanted to watch "(and now, ladies and gentlemen) THIS IS CINERAMA" but, today I work ..... perhaps in 2005 [Big Grin]

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 03-20-2004, 04:38 PM:

I thought I had found a way of getting there, but the severe weather has been delaying trains. I'll have a look at the news iin the morning and see if it's cleared.

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-21-2004, 04:49 AM:

The weather is really bad round here. It blew out one of the windows above Pictureville main entrance just after the start of War and Peace yesterday afternoon.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-21-2004, 07:20 AM:

It hit attendance for our conference at Teesside, too; though we still got around 50, with a good BFI contingent who braved the gales to come up from London. There was carmageddon in Yorkshire on Friday, with trees on the road and overturned vehicles closing both the A1 and the A19.

Hope the rest of the weekend goes well and that your remaining windows stay intact!

Posted by Darren Briggs (Member # 1071) on 03-22-2004, 06:48 PM:

Hi all.
Well the punny speakers rocked the pictureville cinema, and gave all the die-hard 70mm fans a treat for the ears.
The Sensurround re-creation at the widescreen weekend was attended by around 150 people.
Many thanks to Bill Lawrence and the team for letting us lower the tone of the festival and letting 4 mad men from York not only shake the cinema, but cause mayhem in the foyer allday with the pre-show hype!
Pictures im sure will appear on the in70mm website.

'Earthquake' with the 'Sensurround re-creation' will continue touring the U.K. this year. (including all the addional effects)
Keep an eye on www.in70mm.com for deatails and dates.

Now all i've go to do is think of another 70mm project.

Darren

Posted by Michael Brown (Member # 890) on 03-22-2004, 09:16 PM:

Ohhh Hamlet in 70mm. That was a gorgeous print. So sharp and crisp. Shame I missed the last 45 minutes though. [Frown]

Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 03-23-2004, 07:12 AM:

Michael, I looked around, and saw several people, but I didn't notice you. Do you look anything like your picture?

I saw all of 'Hamlet', and Dion's presentation, but I had to leave at the start of 'Forbidden Planet' to catch the last train. The service from Bradford to Leeds was eight minutes late off the Interchange, which gave me a tight connection to the London train, but I made it, and got home about 00:45 on Monday morning.

It's a pity that we don't see more work shot on modern 65mm stocks, I understand that 'Hamlet wasn't even a very high budget production, though I can't remember any figures.

The main set looked a difficult one to work on; Alex Thompson commented on the mirrors, but there were other shots, e.g. where the camera followed a character from the main hall into an ante-room during a shot which look quite tricky to do, though not as bad as in 'Russian Ark', where a character would move from room to room, along corridors, down stairs and out of the building into the grounds where they would meet other characters who had come from elseheere. That must have been a nightmare to do, and to direct.

Some of 'Hamlet' seems to have been done on a Steadycam, or similar; I wonder if these were the scenes which were done with the Arri 765. I saw one of those at the exhihition at Grip House Studios a few years ago, the same exhibition where I saw 8-35 projected, and it's a lovely little camera. Alex also commented on an Arri camera being used to cover for one of the main cameras while it was sent to the USA for repair. A five day turnaround for this seems remarkable.

Does anybody know what it costs to hire a 65mm camera? My guess would be that it's not that much more than for 35mm, as a camera that's out on a job, even at a low rental, is earning something, whereas one sitting on a shelf is just taking up space and earning nothing, and there can't be a great demand for 65mm gear at the moment. Is this the case?

The shallow depth of field was apparent in several shots, where it could have done with being a little greater.

Sadly, as with the other recent 65mm productions, we haven't seen any great interest in greater use of the format. 'Hamlet' is now eight years ago, and there seems to be no sign of anything else using it.

Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 03-23-2004, 09:31 AM:

Pictures from the weekend are now available. Some names and details still missing - but I will get them soon. Have a look at my WSW homepage and find the Galleries 1 and 2 from 2004. I welcome other peoples pictures should anyone read this.

I saw "Hamlet" too and this time it was great. Since my first viewing in 1997, I thought it was too much - too difficult to understand. But this time, hmmm, 4 hours was nothing :-) Very underrated and so dynamic.

In the "To be or not to be" scene (reel 9), a tripod with a microphone is VERY visible in one of the mirrors.

Sometimes during the week I will post my festival notes on www.in70mm.com, so check in later if you are interested.

Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 03-24-2004, 06:57 PM:

...so many thumbnail photos and not a single thump... [Frown]

Push the button, Max !

Per

Posted by Christian Appelt (Member # 1067) on 03-25-2004, 10:27 AM:

Hi Per -

"I'd like to see the Great Leslie try that one, ha-haaaa-ha!" [Cool]

Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 03-25-2004, 07:26 PM:

Now, -there's another one, Mr Leslie can try on for size....! [Big Grin]

for Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy - and for Mr Edwards, -the most well earned Honorary Oscar winner of many, many years !

p.

Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 03-26-2004, 05:29 AM:

Hr. Brokkehoved, hvis du trykker på de ovennævnte link kommer du her til og her til

Mr. Grumble, pressing this link it will take you to the first gallery and to the second gallery

Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 03-26-2004, 08:47 AM:

Heyheyhey !

All decent dvd's offers more than one set of subtitles, Young Man !

Grumple
(signed)

Posted by Darren Briggs (Member # 1071) on 03-28-2004, 03:31 PM:

Stephen,
You missed Earthquake! Shame on you.

You should of come and said hello.
Michael, did I chat to you at all?

Hope everyone enjoyed the whole weekend, and that you all return next year for the 50th anniversary of Todd-AO at the Pictureville, and in the mean time come visti us in York with regualar 70mm screenings.

Magnificent Men is playing in 70mm on April 11th at 1pm at City Screen York.

Other titles for this year at City Screen York...
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Oklahoma (TBC)
and many others.

Darren

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 03-29-2004, 01:23 AM:

And if Tony our veteran projectionist has his way we will also celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Sound of Music [Eek!]

Posted by Thomas Hauerslev (Member # 566) on 03-29-2004, 04:15 AM:

...in sensational "Sing-A-Long" of course

[Cool]