Saturday, September 29, 2018

70mm Odds and Ends

At the Somerville Theater with Projectionist David Kornfeld

Clips and test reels from the following films


  • Scent of Mystery - test reel with sound system test audio (this was originally a Cinerama smell-o-vision film)
  • Doctor Zhivago - test reel with sound system test audio (demonstrating 35mm print blown up to 70mm)
  • South Pacific  - test reel with sound system test audio
  • Oklahoma - original 1955 print demonstrating 30fps
  • Around the World in 80 Days - demonstrating 30fps
  • Ryan's Daughter 
  • Alien - claimed to be fragments from the only 70mm print of Alien in existence (Dolby A demo)
  • Superman
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - original 1968 print
  • [Closed out with a reel of vintage 35mm scifi trailers]

Friday, September 28, 2018

Macbeth by William Shakespeare in a modern verse translation by Migdalia Cruz


Produced by Actors Shakespeare Project at United Parish in Brookline

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Dead Centre’s Hamnet

Produced by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount

Monday, September 24, 2018

Sunday, September 23, 2018

El Cid - Anthony Mann (1961)

Vintage 35mm IB technicolor print at the Somerville Theater

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018

Friday, September 14, 2018

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Friday, September 7, 2018

The Big Country - William Wyler (1958)

W commentary by Sir Christopher Frayling

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Exhibits

Casanova's Europe

Claes Oldenburg: Shelf Life

Monday, September 3, 2018