35mm print of Guy Maddin's new Super 8 movie

[steve hyde]

...if you find yourself in Seattle and want to feast your senses into some Super 8 that has been blown up to 35mm.....

http://www.nwfilmforum.org/brand.php




















Steve

[Rick Palidwor]

The first couple of nights have all live sound - I have heard it's amazing. No indication of what guage they are screening on those nights though.

Rick

[steve hyde]

... well it's screening at the Seattle Cinerama, which is in fact a restored Cinerama owned by a guy called Paul Allen who made a lot of cash as co-owner of microsoft back in the 1980s. Paul has a Cinerama because he can... I'm sure it will be 35mm. Live sound eh? That sounds cool. This project was filmed and produced in Seattle and post at Flying Spot here. I bet they transfered the S8 to HD at FSFT and then blew up the digital files to 35mm on the Arri Laser at Alpha Cine labs.. I'll find out.

Steve

[Rick Palidwor]

Two nights have ALL LIVE sound (narration, music, foley) and then it points out that the last few nights they will screen a 35mm with pre-recorded sound - so you can see both. I presume they are screening same print for live sound nights, but who knows.
Rick

[steve hyde]

Two nights have ALL LIVE sound (narration, music, foley) and then it points out that the last few nights they will screen a 35mm with pre-recorded sound - so you can see both. I presume they are screening same print for live sound nights, but who knows.
Rick

Yeah first two nights are with an orchestra and Guy Maddin doing some performance narrating. Sounds interesting - can't go Weds, but will try for Thurs..

Steve

[David M. Leugers]

Just as a bit of trivia... the Cinerama theater in Seattle owes a huge debt of gratitude to the Neon theater in Dayton, Ohio. The owner spent years scrounging equipment and restoring them to working order. He installed a bona fide Cinerama screen and then went about finding any true Cinerama prints he could and showed them in his theater. I got to see "How the West Was Won" shortly before he sold the equipment to the Paul Allen group in Seattle. It was a real trip to get to see HTWWW in Cinerama, just like I did forty years earlier. You could go out into the lobby and watch the three projectors running in sync with the separate magnetic stereo soundtrack (I think it was 6 track)! Many people from all over including some well known Hollywood directors ventured to Dayton to see it in action. Love it or hate it, Cinerama was indeed something special.

David M. Leugers

[steve hyde]

...fascinating bit of history David. Thanks for that. I know they have screened some authentic Cinerama presentations of Laurence of Arabia down at the Seattle one, although I've yet to actually experience one myself..

Steve

[etimh]

...fascinating bit of history David. Thanks for that. I know they have screened some authentic Cinerama presentations of Laurence of Arabia down at the Seattle one, although I've yet to actually experience one myself..

Steve

Laurence of Arabia is not a "true" Cinerama film. It was shot in 70mm widescreen and if you do have a chance to see it in this original format, i highly recommend it (as opposed to the 35mm prints that usually screen.)

The only real Cinerama film that gets the three-projector presentation these days, I think, is How The West Was Won. Other documentary films like This is Cinerama also get screened in their original format but HTWWW is one of the very few actual Cinerama process features.

I believe there are only four places where true Cinerama films can be screened with the three projectors--Seattle, the New Neon in Ohio, the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, and some place in England. I saw HTWWW at the Dome last year...absolutley mind-blowing experience.

[steve hyde]

...I'll keep my eyes peeled for HTWWW. Sounds like a lot of time and research efforts spent on a technology that didn't stick..

honestly the big wide screen stuff isn't my fascination. I'm fond of Academy 35 myself and smaller venues. I imagine this MAddin picture will be since it is blown up from S8.

Steve

[etimh]

I imagine this MAddin picture will be since it is blown up from S8.

Well, yeah, Maddin is certainly one of my heroes...wish I could be up there in Seattle for the live mix presentations.

Tim

[steve hyde]

...check out this video of the live foley:

http://www.branduponthebrain.com/liveshow_clip.html








Steve

[ropbo]

Oh, I saw this film here in Vancouver at the Vancouver Film Centre about two months ago ... (there were just me and 5 or 6 other people in the cinema). 35mm print. It takes a few minutes for you to get used to that Super-8-blown-up-to-35mm look but once you get past that ... at least, it happened to me ... you realize the texture fits the story very well.

It's a very enjoyable movie and in my opinion, way better than "Cowards Bend the Knee".

Here in Vancouver, the movie was narrated by Isabella Rossellini (recorded voice, not live)

[steve hyde]

....it's an amazing show. That is probably an understatement. Certainly the the singular most powerful Super 8 spectacle I've seen. Over the top even, but in a good way. Lots of excellent work in this show. Recommend it.

The super 8 blow up to 35mm was well done - 1.85:1. A high contrast picture with lots of gray tones maintained and of course lots of grain. Tonight's show was a one of a kind with live foley (full sync and complex) amazing! - a fantastic live orchestra - and Guy Maddin narrating live.

more engagements. Don't miss it.

Check the American Cinematheque website below:

http://www.branduponthebrain.com/screenings.php









Steve

[Clapton Pond]

After seeing this thread, I recommended it to a mate in Seattle who, as far as I know, hadn't heard of Guy Maddin - the verdict:

" It was pretty mindblowing in a very weird, neurotic, oedipal complex, gender confused, mad scientific, vampiric kind of way..."

Typical Maddin, then.

Damn, I'm jealous!

ian

[steve hyde]

"It was pretty mindblowing in a very weird, neurotic, oedipal complex, gender confused, mad scientific, vampiric kind of way..."

Well said. It was Maddin in his element to be sure... In some ways I got the feeling Maddin finally succeeded at something he has been working on in his last three films..

Steve