| Larger Than Life: 70MM
Some screenings in this series are at the Egyptian Theatre!
Seeing a movie in the 70mm format is a totally
immersing and even exhilarating experience. From Super Technirama 70 to Ultra Panavision
to Dimension 150 and more, the 70mm large-screen format has always promised – and
delivered – a Barnum-esque world of spectacular sights and 6-track sounds. From 1955
to 1970 – the Golden Age of 70mm filmmaking – there were nearly 60 Hollywood
features shot in large-format, with many more released in special engagements as
35mm-to-70mm blow-ups (which still offered sound and image quality superior to their 35mm
counterparts).
This time around we’ll be screening 70mm prints of Oscar-winning and
Oscar-nominated films. Please join us for WEST SIDE STORY, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA,
SILVERADO, VERTIGO, IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and,
in honor of James Cameron’s recent return to box office domination, TITANIC!
Wednesday, March 3 – 7:30 PM
70mm! 25th Anniversary: SILVERADO, 1985, Sony Repertory, 132 min. Director Lawrence
Kasdan's highly entertaining Western stars Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn and
Danny Glover as a band of mismatched cowboys, gamblers and gunslingers who band together
to save a frontier town. View
trailer | Buy
Tickets Discussion following
with director Lawrence Kasdan, writer and producer Mark Kasdan, executive producer Michael
Grillo, cinematographer John Bailey (schedule permitting) and editor Carol Littleton
(schedule permitting).
Thursday, March 4 – 7:30 PM
70mm! IT’S
A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, 1963, MGM Repertory, 162 min. Dir. Stanley Kramer.
Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Edie Adams, Spencer Tracy, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey
Rooney, Dick Shawn, Dorothy Provine, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, Peter
Falk, Terry-Thomas, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis and many more star in the story of a group of
average, upstanding Americans who are given the key to locating $350,000 in stolen bank
loot - and resort to every form of lying, deceit and double-crossing in their manic
cross-country chase to retrieve it!! View trailer
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Friday, March 5 – 7:30 PM
70mm! 2001:
A SPACE ODYSSEY, 1968, Warner Bros., 139 min. Director Stanley Kubrick’s
mind-blowing meditation on technology, space and the future of the human race is one of
the Cinematheque’s most requested screening titles. This is another opportunity to
see one of the essential cinema experiences on the giant screen, in truly psychedelic
6-track stereo sound! View
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Saturday, March 6 – 7:30 PM
70mm! TITANIC,
1997, Paramount, 194 min. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart, Kathy
Bates, Billy Zane. Director-writer James Cameron resurrects the doomed R.M.S. Titanic as a
shimmering spectacle of polished brass and lost love. If you’ve seen TITANIC once,
twice, three times - come see it again! View trailer | Buy Tickets
Friday, March 12 – 7:30 PM
70mm! VERTIGO, 1958, Universal, 129 min. With its
stunning visuals and gripping characters, director Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological
suspense masterpiece VERTIGO continues to entrance audiences. Retired San Francisco police
detective "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) becomes obsessed with Madeleine
Elster (Kim Novak), a troubled woman he is privately hired to follow. Tragedy ensues when
Ferguson later stumbles upon Judy Barton (also played by Novak), a young woman who bears a
striking resemblance to Madeleine…and his obsession spirals out of control.
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