Kubrick Series at Cinerama This Week

1. Are these on 35?

2. I’ve tried watching various Harry Potter movies over the years but haven’t found one that didn’t bore me so much that I got up and went and did something else halfway through.

3. Hopes for drunky hookups with Daniel Radcliffe are diminishing.

4. i find it borderline creepy lolita gets its own day and three showings

   what do you think, full metal jacket, clockwork orange, or the shining? i’ve seen them all at least a few times so i’m looking for big screen enjoyment since 2 of them were released before i was born.

   i think it’s gonna be FMJ.

5. They are in 2k dcp! @ octave

6. @5 Boo. I’ll wait for the 35mm prints to come around again. 2k DCP < 35mm < 70mm. And, Kubrick deserves 35mm at least (2001 deserves no less than 70mm).

   Also, no Eyes Wide Shut? That movie always gets shafted.

7. AMC movie theater (AMC Loews Alderwood mall, Lynwood WA) is showing all the Harry Potter films for $45 dollars. Starting July 11, 2 films will be shown each night culminating with the final episode at 12:01am on the 15th. $45 will get you into all the films and a “commemorative” lanyard and booklet and 3D version of the final film.

8. The 35 prints of kubrick films are in terrible shape from my understanding. I believe these 2k versions come from 4k scans

9. I’m carving the lightning bolt into my forehead as I write this.

   (not really. that would be creepy)

10. @6: Maybe because watching Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman is slightly less exciting than watching astroturf grow.

11. @8 A Clockwork Orange has some really good prints and some really awful prints out there. It was restored in 1998, and just got re-restored at Cannes.

    The Shining hasn’t really been restored. Most prints look like crap because they’ve been run through 100,000 bad projectors.

    I haven’t seen a bad print of Barry Lyndon yet because nobody plays that movie. The print they play in Michigan was gorgeous and boring.

    I think they restored Full Metal Jacket, but I can’t say. The one print I’ve seen of it was pretty decent, but that was a decade ago.

    Eyes Wide Shut is hard to find in NC-17 form (and, @10, I’m so fascinated by that movie, in a way I can’t explain).

    Dr. Strangelove has been restored and re-released a few times. I’ve not seen a bad print of it. And, the Spartacus print is FANTASTIC.

    I’m not sure about Lolita. I haven’t seen a bad print of it, but I’ve only seen it twice in theaters.

    2001’s 70mm print is mesmerizing. Its likes watching a moving painting. If you’ve not seen it on 70mm in a giant movie house, you’re missing out. Its the only way I can really watch that movie.

    /Yes, I’m a Kubrick geek. Judge me.

12. Last time I was at Cinerama I wasn’t paying attention to their camera. Now that they have 3D, do they run their 2D movies in the proper mode? I’ve read that many theaters using Sony’s 3D projector tend to leave the 2nd projector on for 2D movies because it’s too expensive to switch it off, thus dulling the colors.

    Anyone know if Cinerama is handling their business?

13. Cinerama is running a christie projector the 3d system fits in front of the lens fir 3d movies. 2d looks great

14. @ 11, you’re forgetting that even if there are some decent prints on 35 out there, the politics involved in a theater getting their hands on all of them at the same time are just about unnavigable. Relationships with studios be fragile. Be happy a theater is even showing a run of Kubrick these days.

15. @ 7 – You can watch all the Harry Potter films (including the final 3D film) at the Cinerama for as cheap as $55 (if my maths are correct) or I guess you can save the extra ten dollars and commute to a Lynnwood mall for that dope commemorative lanyard. Enjoy the sweet sweet savings!

16. @12 it’s called a projector, not a camera..if you don’t know that basic fact, then how would you be able to discern if they were projecting movies in the proper mode? There is not a separate projector its a separate lens, and none of you know what the fuck you are talking about.

17. When I went to a revival of 2001 at the Cinerama a few months ago, I idly asked the box office guy what kind of print they’d secured. I was stunned when he answered “It’s a Blu-Ray.” He said they were unable to get a decent film print in time. The presentation was OK, but I’m concerned that this kind of theatrical bait-and-switch will become common. The Cinerama made no mention of the Blu-Ray presentation in its advertising. I expect better from a theater that considers itself the premier cinematic facility in town.

18. @14 Correction: Studio. Other than Dr Strangelove (Columbia) and Lolita (Turner), Warner has the rights to Kubrick’s post-Spartacus films. UA holds the rights to Paths and to The Killing, but those hardly get shown (to my dismay).

    In Michigan, every other year they’d show a Kubrick retro at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor for their Kubrick class. I attended all screenings both times I was there for it. I also saw a few prints in Germany when they did one for the Kubrick exhibition in 2004. And, one time in NYC I saw a couple prints. Michigan Theater was the best, and the 2001 experience in 70mm at Cinerama a few years ago was also really good. Though, in Germany, their print of uncut Eyes Wide Shut with German subtitles was in really good condition.

19. @17: I’m not a fan of blu-ray being projected (I did go see CE3K at Cinerama though), but Cinerama has been pretty upfront with the projection method. Check the threads in their facebook pagec, lots of discussions there on the methods. Well, maybe not lots, but some.

20. @4..i’d vote for ‘the shining’..i mean if you hafta pick just one. even a crappy wide screen of it will be delightfully vertiginous.

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