XPost: rec.arts.movies.past-films   
   From: bobble@there.com   
      
   On 21/05/2018 12:39 PM, moviePig wrote:   
   > On 5/20/2018 7:13 PM, super70s wrote:   
   >> Some relevant passages from a EW piece:   
   >>   
   >> "Christopher Nolan may be the only working director qualified to   
   >> reexamine Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi masterpice, which Nolan has   
   >> carefully 'unrestored' to its original photo format for an extraordinary   
   >> theatrical rerelease unlike any other 50th anniversary."   
   >>   
   >> "EW: For someone who's never seen this film, why should they make a   
   >> point to see it in this special format?"   
   >> "CN: ...What we're doing is putting it out there in its original 70mm   
   >> photochemical analog glory to give audiences in 2018 the same   
   >> experiences that audiences had in 1968."   
   >> "EW: Which scenes most benefit from 'unrestoration'?"   
   >> "CN: The entire film is so much more heightened, the color particularly.   
   >> There are things that appear to you in a revelatory way."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> I'm not exactly getting the point of this, they go to so much trouble to   
   >> restore iconic films like this one, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of   
   >> Oz, etc., in digital format and I thought the whole point of that was   
   >> for "heightened color" and a sharper picture (which you often see   
   >> demonstrated in a split screen comparison).   
   >>   
   >> I only have the original MGM/WB DVD release so I guess I'm stuck with   
   >> the "inferior restored" version, lol.   
   >   
   > 1.  The '68 'audience experience' also entailed a wraparound Cinerama   
   > screen, which was very way damn cool.  Even Imax won't do that today.   
      
   I thought all Cinerama after about 1962 was fake, just using the name.   
   >   
   > 2.  There's nothing about '70mm photochemical analog' that can't be   
   > improved upon by high-res digital.  It's physics, not Holy Communion.   
   >   
      
   The advantage of digital is cleaner information not necessarily more detail.   
   I have this on bluray, so it looks pretty good when I watch it.   
      
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