Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City has announced the lineup for its annual 70mm festival, which, in an age of ubiquitous digital projection, celebrates the cinematic power that the high-quality analog film format brings to discerning cineastes. Taking place at the Astoria museum's grand Sumner M. Redstone Theater July 18–August 18, the festival brings several classics to the big screen, both classic and contemporary.
70mm film cells offer nearly 3.5 times the area of 35mm film prints, delivering images that can be projected on huge screens while delivering the brightest and sharpest images. The IMAX 70mm format is even larger, but can only be shown in IMAX theaters on IMAX film projectors on 1.
43:1 aspect ratio screens, whereas “standard” 70mm is easier to accommodate on convention screens. The Searchers 1956 - Martin Scorsese says he watches it once a year. Museum of the Moving Image The festival opens with a newly struck 70mm print of The Searchers (1956), scanned from the original 35mm VistaVision camera negative and approved by The Film Foundation.
If you go to one of the seven screenings you may, possibly, find yourself sitting next to Martin Scorsese, as this is a film that he famously says he watches at least once a year. Other films on offer during the festival include Playtime, (Jacques Tati. 1967), Lawrence of Arabia David Lean, 1962) Far and Away (Ron Howard.
1992) and Tenet (Christopher Nolan..