Hi all, I’m a long time lurker to the site since around '09.

Can anyone share an invite to the site that hosts this ('spleen)?
This scan looks amazing and I believe the site also hosts the Grindhouse editions of ESB and ROTJ that I’m very interested in.

I remember seeing the IMAX (well, LieMAX) version of Raiders for the 30th anniversary and being taken aback at how over-saturated it was. I had just seen 35mm prints from 1982 of Wrath of Khan and The Thing, and both were pretty neutrally color-timed, if not a little cold. LPP prints were just being introduced in 1982 and Kodak really got it right; the prints looked amazing still. Now I know movies all look different and are lit differently according to the cinematographer, but most movies from the early 80’s shared a certain look, much like many movies nowadays will have teal/orange color-timings.

I used to live in LA a few years back and got to see 35mm/70mm print of many movies and always paid careful attention to their color thanks to this site introducing me to all the color revisionism going on nowadays. I got to see 70mm prints of films like Sound of Music, Vertigo, Spartacus, Grand Prix, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
However, my fondest memories are of seeing Cinerama movies presented in actual three-strip 35mm Cinerama at the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard in 2012. Amazing!

I saw This Is Cinerama twice; once in the very front row, right in the middle of the row, so that entire curved Cinerama screen would engulf my field of vision and a second time around the middle row of the theater (Kubrick’s favorite spot). When I sat down in the front row, the old guy next to me look surprised and asked, “What are you doing here?!” He couldn’t believe younger people were into Cinerama haha.
Seeing it from the front row with it taking up my entire vision really transported me. Why has the movie going experience gone so downhill sine the 50’s?