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70MM
Film Event at Biffen, Aalborg Denmark, 26. April 2014
Biffen Celebrate its 25th Anniversary |
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Written by: Thomas Hauerslev |
Date:
01.01.2014 |
3-screen
"Biffen" (in Aalborg, Denmark) celebrates its 25th anniversary in April
2014. One day of the anniversary -Saturday, April 26 - is dedicated to
70mm. In 2009 Biffen moved to its present location at Nordkraft,
Aalborg's former power plant. Manager Orla Nielsen and his staff have
built 3 luxurious high-impact cinemas with curved screens, which gives
the audience the best cinema experience. 70mm have always been shown at
the Biffen - to the enjoyment of the audience, and there is a special
reason for that:
"I run 70mm at
Biffen for the simple reason I think it is a fabulous format.
I like to look at it, it is easy to handle and we can run it. It is a
pleasure for me to see a large well-illuminated 70mm image on the screen.
And with that large hole in the projector aperture plate, it is easy to
punch some light onto the screen. Those are the primary reasons why I run
70mm here. Our CinemaScope picture looks good too, but there is something
special about 70mm which is hard to describe. If you see a picture filmed in
that format, it is beyond competition, like
"Baraka". All those details, the definition and brilliance,
it is unbelievable. It is like looking out of a huge window. It is almost
three-dimensional." - says Orla.
In connection with the anniversary, Orla Nielsen hopes to present at
least two films in 70mm. We will start in the morning after breakfast
and continue through the day until evening. In other words, a full day
with 70mm film, a lecture or two, tours in the projection rooms for
those who desire to see it, the odd surprise, and demonstrations of
different 70mm formats on our 10 meter (30 feet) deeply curved screen of
Cinema A. All films will be shown with our two OSCAR winning and
historically correct Philips DP70
Todd-AO 70mm machines. We will
also try to organize lunch, and a light dinner.
Biffen is the only remaining cinema in Denmark capable of showing 70mm
with 6-track stereophonic sound. Spectacular film formats like Todd-AO,
Ultra Panavision and MCS 70 Superpanorama, which once graced Danish
screens, will make a brief come back for one day only on April 26, 2014.
Come to Aalborg and celebrate Biffen's anniversary, and experience the
best of all cinema techniques - 70MM FILM.
Remember the date: Saturday, April 26, 2014. Full details about films,
program, hotel possibilities, tickets and prices is expected to be ready
by late January 2014. Aalborg is the 3rd largest city of Denmark and is
easily reachable by car, trains and airplanes. This is a rare
opportunity to experience REAL 70MM FILM in one of the best Danish
cinemas.
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More in 70mm reading:
Aalborg 70mm Film Event
Reflections on The 70mm Aalborg Film
Festival at The Biffen
70mm Day in Aalborg
See the video of the Oliver Todd conversation
2001: a space
odyssey Campaign
2001:
A Space Odyssey
Essential
Presentation
Procedure
"2001:
A SPACE ODYSSEY" Production Information
Original 6-track Mix Recovered and
Restored for West Side Story
Biffen's Three Curved Screens
P T Anderson's
"The Master" in System 65
"Windjammer" - Exclusive
Danish Re-release
Hamlet in 70mm
"Out of Africal" on Karen
Blixen's Lawn
Todd-AO at
"Sea" in Copenhagen
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70mm Program
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Widescreen Welcome 09:00 - 10:00
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The and coffee at competitive prices
Johan
Wolthuis will sell his new book:
Widescreen History
Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of Biffen
Meet guests from Ireland, Sweden, England, USA, Australia and
native Danes
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"West Side Story" 10:00 - 12:32 +
pause = 12:47
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"West Side Story"
(2:32) + intermission. Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames
per second. Principal photography in:
Super Panavision 70. Presented on: The curved
screen in a new Super Panavision 70 print with the
original 6-track mix in DATASAT
digital sound. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1961.
World
Premiere: Rivoli, NY, on 18 Oct 1961. Danish premiere:
08.10.1962.
Natalie Wood (Maria), Russ Tamblyn (Riff), Richard Beymer
(Tony), George Chakiris (Bernardo), Rita Moreno (Anita)
1962 Academy Award Wins:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role George Chakiris
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Rita Moreno
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin
Best Cinematography, Color Daniel L. Fapp
Best Costume Design, Color Irene Sharaff
Best Director Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
For the first time a directing award is being shared.
Best Film Editing, Thomas Stanford
Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid
Ramin, Irwin Kostal
Best Picture Robert Wise
Best Sound Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD)
Gordon Sawyer (Samuel Goldwyn SSD)
Academy Award Nominated:
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Ernest
Lehman
Official
MGM site
Considered one of the most popular musicals of all time,
"West Side Story"
earned director Robert Wise an Oscar for Best Director as well as nine other
Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Realistically portrayed characters
and their surroundings and expert editing complementing innovative dance
sequences mark this highly stylized modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale. The
stage is set in New York's Upper West Side in the 1950s, where the area's
slums are plagued by racial tensions acted on by two rival gangs: the Puerto
Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets. In the middle of this mess is young,
innocent Maria (Natalie Wood), a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother,
Bernardo (George Chakiris), is the leader of the Sharks. Despite the
warnings of Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernardo's fiery girlfriend, Maria falls in
love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony (Richard Beymer), who used to
belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn). When Tony, on Maria's
urging, tries to stop a rumble between the gangs, tragedy ensues, marking
their dedicated love affair with violence and desperation. The infectious,
lyrical landmark score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim help round
out one of the greatest musical experiences ever captured on film.
"West Side Story"
was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997.
Have a look at the alternative
Frankentrailer
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Wolfram Hannemann's 2009 Bradford introduction to "West Side Story"
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Motion
pictures photographed in Super Panavision 70 & Panavision System 65
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Original 6-track Mix Recovered and
Restored for West Side Story
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Widescreen Intermission
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Biffen Snack / Sandwich / coffee / the / beer in the foyer at
favourable prices
Visit the projection room
See the projection technique and touch the film
Johan
Wolthuis will sell his new book:
Widescreen History
Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of Biffen
Meet guests from Ireland, Sweden, England, USA, Australia and
native Danes
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You are in the show with Todd-AO 13:30 - 17:30
Lecture, interview and 70mm film format
demonstrations
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An
introduction to Biffen & Nordkraft by Orla Nielsen
The History of Todd-AO
with surprise and 65mm Todd-AO test film fra 1953
A Conversation with
Oliver Michael
Todd in Conversation with Thomas Hauerslev
Short break - 15 min
Golden reels with Rossano Brazzi, Denholm Elliot,
Peter O'Toole and Mitzy Gaynor
5 min sound test
10 min blow up
12 min Todd-AO 6-track mix
7 min DTS 70mm
15 Dolby Stereo
5 min "This is our movie"
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Widescreen Dinner
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Enjoy the cuisine of the local restaurants, when we eat
together as one big group(s)
Dinner at your own expense
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"2OO1: A Space Odyssey" 19:30 -
21:51 + pause = 22:07
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"2001:
A Space Odyssey" (141 min) + intermission.
Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames
per second. Principal photography in:
Super Panavision 70. Presented in:
CINERAMA
on the curved screen in a new Super Panavision 70 print (from 2001) with the original 6-track mix in
Dolby Stereo. Aspect
ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1961.
World
Premiere: 2. April 1968, Uptown, Washington, USA.
Danish premiere: 04.08.1969.
Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cinematography by Geoffrey
Unsworth. Edited by Ray Lovejoy. Douglas Trumbull (special photographic
effects supervisor).
Keir Dullea (Dr. Dave Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William
Sylvester (Dr. Heywood R. Floyd), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), Douglas
Rain (HAL 9000 (voice))
Full credits
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The CD
Soundtrack
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A Roadshow
Odyssey
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Restoring the
soundtrack
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"2001" and the
curved screen
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The Original Reserved Seat Engagements Of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
45th Anniversary Screening of the films Danish premiere
15th Anniversary screening
on the occasion of
Stanley Kubrick's death (26 July 1928 - 7 March 1999)
1968 Academy Award Wins:
Oscar Best Effects, Special Visual Effects Stanley Kubrick
Academy Award Nominated:
Oscar Best Director Stanley Kubrick
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen
Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Anthony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernest
Archer
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Christiane Kubrick's Website
Creating special effects for "2001"
Kubrick
Films
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Hotel stay
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Hotel Aalborg -
Sψmandshjemmet.
Single room DKK.: 715,00.
Double room DKK.: 865,00.
10% discount including breakfast.
Bookning: info@hotel-aalborg.com
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Thanks to
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Richard Hundorf, Warner London
Rene Wolf & Marleen Labijt, EYE Film Institute, Netherlands
Hollywood Classics
Park Circus
Biffen's staff
Hotel Aalborg
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