Fang Zei said:
timdiggerm said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
The most mind-blowing release of an old film back into cinemas in recent years...???
Answer... 1985's 'Back To The Future' in stunning Digital 2D for it's 25th Anniversary. The remastered picture quality was so sharp, you almost needed 3D glasses just to make the image all blurry and dark, so that your view wasn't obscurred by tears of joy.
If you release SW in crystal clear Digital/70mm film 2D, on today's big-ass screens with a thundering soundtrack who needs Stereoscopy?
Digital, huh? I saw it on October 23rd (they gave me a free poster!) and it was almost certainly projected from 35mm - I think I remember the characteristic wiggle and shake.
But it was worth the money to see that movie on the big screen.
It could've still been (probably was) a digital projection. The wiggle and shake could've simply been from the film going through the camera "on the day," unless you definitively remember cigarrette burns and splices, of course.
I wasn't able to catch a screening of BTTF (did they do one here in the States?), but I remember hearing about it. A new 2K master was created for the blu-ray release and thus could be shown in theaters in an up-to-modern-standards digital form.
The 4K projection of the final cut of Blade Runner I saw on opening night at the Ziegfeld back in '07 gives pretty much anything else a run for its money, though.
The Blade Runner Digital Cinema Package(DCP) was only 2K.
That DCP was downrezzed from the original 4K master.
The 2K DCP was then projected through a 1st generation Sony 4K projector.
Back To The Future was culled from a 1st generation interpositive and scanned at 2k.