Loew’s Jersey undergoing $72 million restoration!

The gorgeous 1929 Loew’s Jersey theater, proudly projecting 35mm, is undergoing a massive renovation that will include live events as well as many more film projections. It’s already a glorious pad. It will look quite different we assume though most hopefully will retain so much of the neighborhood movie palace feel we love.

 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jersey-citys-historic-loews-theatre-to-undergo-72m-restoration/2902726/

Alamo Drafthouse And Kodak Join Forces For REEL FILM DAY!

3/5 – March 5, Alamo Drafthouses across the land are unreeling 35mm prints for all to enjoy in the name of Reel Film Day.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/02/16/alamo-drafthouse-and-kodak-announce-reel-film-day

Warren Oates classics on 35mm at Lincoln Center in July

July 2016:

A smorgasbord of Warren Oates’ sweaty face filling the screen at Lincoln Center this summer with 35mm prints of RACE WITH THE DEVIL, THE HIRED HAND, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, 92 IN THE SHADE, and many more!

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/warren-oates-retrospective/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016_06_09_Newsletter&utm_content=version_A

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Is it time to bring back the projectionist?

Then there’s the texture of the image itself. Rather than the neat grids of pixels you get with digital, the colours on a film strip come from layers of microscopic silver halide crystals, the positions of which differ from frame to frame. That’s why a static digital shot of an unchanging scene looks frozen, while on film, you’re always keenly aware that time is passing.

“Digital might be more predictable, but the problem is you can no longer see the best version of the film,” Nolan told the group. “In other words, cinemas are taking the McDonald’s approach: yeah, it’s all a bit worse, but at least it’s consistent.”

The Telegraph: Bring back the projectionists!

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Meet the Brave Projectionists Behind ‘The Hateful Eight’ 70mm Roadshow

“There is no question it’s light years better looking than the DCP. The digital files are flat, dull by comparison. But what we’re doing here is allowing audiences to see what we’ve lost as a society. It’s a glimpse into how things were, and all the effort is worth it when you talk to someone who truly experienced something different than what they’ve become used to. The excitement is palpable!”

Meet the Brave Projectionists Behind ‘The Hateful Eight’ 70mm Roadshow

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NPR: Projection Fans Are Grateful For ‘Hateful Eight’ In 70 Millimeter

That’s where Chapin Cutler comes in. He’s the head of Boston Light and Sound, the company in charge of gathering old equipment like reels and lenses and retrofitting theaters so they can show this movie. It can be complicated.

“In one case, we had to chop open a door that had been cemented shut and put the equipment up on the second floor by bringing in a forklift,” Cutler says.

Movie Fans Grateful for 70mm Hateful 8!

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85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies

This 12-minute film created by Joseph O. Holmes features clips from 50 different films that take place in a projection booth, from Buster Keaton’s “Sherlock, Jr.” all the way up to Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds.”

The short debuted at the Redstone Theater at The Museum of the Moving Image on October 4, 2013, as part of the opening reception for Holmes’s “The Booth: The Final Days of Film Projection,” an exhibition of photographs. 39 images from his still-photo project “The Booth” can be viewed on his portfolio site: josephholmes.io/Portfolio/The-Booth-(2012)

85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies

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Kodak’s Film Division Will Likely Be Profitable in 2016 Thanks to Directors Like Nolan & Tarantino

Film as a physical format is long from dead.

That’s according to Kodak’s CEO Jeff Clarke, who expects their film business to be profitable in 2016 after restructures and three quarters of breaking even in 2015. Earlier this year, Kodak and the major film studios, along with film advocates like Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams, Quentin Tarantino, and Martin Scorsese, reached an agreement to ensure the survival of the format, and it’s clear that it’s working.

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THE HATEFUL 8 full 70mm roadshow venue list released!

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Houston, Detroit, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, Minneapolis, Denver, Miami, Cleveland, Orlando, Sacramento, St. Louis, Portland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Baltimore, San Diego, Nashville, Kansas City, San Antonio, West Palm Beach, Birmingham, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Austin, New Orleans, Providence, Knoxville, Santa Barbara, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver.

The Hateful 8 70mm Roadshow Release Tickets

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Peter Flynn’s DYING OF THE LIGHT World Premiere at Doc NYC

Weds, Nov. 8, at 7:15 pm, director Peter Flynn offers the world premiere of his new documentary DYING OF THE LIGHT at Doc NYC. Director Peter Flynn in attendance.

DYING OF THE LIGHT World Premiere ticket and screening info

As theaters worldwide struggle to afford to maintain the superior, and more human, technology, Flynn’s film surveys the rarefied skill of film projectionists in their words, aiming to capture a generational shift with a mixture of nostalgia and introspection.

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A scene from Peter Flynn’s DYING OF THE LIGHT

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Two different versions of HATEFUL EIGHT – 70 mm viewers get more!

When audiences pay to see the limited roadshow engagement of Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” this holiday season, it won’t just be the projection of Ultra Panavision 70mm photography that distinguishes it from multiplex versions released two weeks later. It will be a slightly different — and longer — film overall.

“The roadshow version has an overture and an intermission, and it will be three hours, two minutes,” Tarantino told Variety. “The multiplex version is about six minutes shorter, not counting the intermission time, which is about 12 minutes.”

Tarantino cuts two versions of HATEFUL EIGHT – Variety

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Christopher Nolan on 35mm at the London Film Festival

Christopher Nolan Praises 35mm, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and Quentin Tarantino

“One of the terrible things happening with independent distribution in the States is there is a level of Blu-Ray distribution that is going on,” Nolan said. “Theatre owners should be saying no to that. Exhibition shouldn’t work in such a way that you present the worse possible version of the film until someone in the audience complains. Exhibitors need to put their best foot forward and have standards. No cinema should be showing a consumer grade format to an audience. At least, they shouldn’t be doing it without saying to the public this is best we can get.”

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Christopher Nolan premieres new 35mm short film QUAY at Manhattan’s Film Forum!

Christopher Nolan, spearhead for many things dark, has taken on the task of presenting the Brothers Quay, the famed stop-motion animators, in his new 35mm short film, QUAY. Having its world premiere at Manhattan’s Film Forum on Weds August 19th, before embarking on a North American tour, Nolan’s film is accompanied by three Brothers Quay shorts, all on 35mm, in a program entitled THE QUAY BROTHERS IN 35MM.

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The three films include IN ABSENTIA (2000), composed with broken pencils and lead shavings, the explorations of a porcenlain doll in a dreamer’s world in THE COMB (1991); and the Bruno Schulz–based STREET OF CROCODILES (1986). Nolan’s short film QUAY (2015) shows the twins at work in their London studio.

The Quay Brothers’ THE COMB (1991). Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. Playing August 19-25.
The Quay Brothers’ THE COMB (1991). Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. Playing August 19-25.

Long a champion of film as the medium to both record and project, Nolan’s continues his forward thrust in presenting films as they were meant to be seen in this wonderful tribute to the art and form of motion pictures.

The Quay Brothers’ IN ABSENTIA (2000). Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. Playing August 19-25.
The Quay Brothers’ IN ABSENTIA (2000). Courtesy Zeitgeist Films. Playing August 19-25.

Other locations for the tour include:

Film Forum New York City NY August 19-25, 2015

Alamo Drafthouse Richardson Richardson TX September 3 -7, 2015

Cinefamily Los Angeles CA September 4-10, 2015

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston TX September 12-13, 2015

Alamo Drafthouse Ritz Austin TX September 17, 2015

Cleveland Cinematheque Cleveland OH September 24 – 27, 2015

Brattle Theatre Cambridge MA September 25 – October 1, 2015

Detroit Institute of Art Detroit MI October 9 – 11, 2015

SIFF Film Center Seattle WA October 9 – 15, 2015

The Music Box Theatre Chicago IL October 16 – 22, 2015

TIFF Bell Lightbox Toronto October 27, 2015

35 Years of STAR TREK movies on 35mm in Philadelphia

From Friday, December 5th through Wednesday, December 10th, the first six films in the franchise will be presented at the PFS Roxy Theater in downtown Philadelphia.

Individual tickets for each screening are $10.00. An all-access pass for all six films with reserved seating is $50.00. There is also a $35.00 general admission pass that will allow the buyer into four films of their choosing.

35 YEARS OF STAR TREK ON 35MM AT THE ROXY THEATER IN PHILADELPHIA