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Retrospective 70 mm – Bigger than Life: Film
Selection and Programme of Events Complete
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Written
by: Press Office,
Berlin Film Festival |
Date:
15.01.2009 |
The
ARRI 765 overlooking Istanbul from the film "The International". Image
by Jay Maidment from VisionARRI.
Worldwide interest in the legacy of 70-mm
films has intensified noticeably over the last years. To find decent,
original-language prints of the films for the 70-mm Retrospective of
this year’s Berlinale turned out to be a particular challenge for the
Deutsche Kinemathek. Fortunately, a number of studios and archives have
invested considerable amounts in their 70-mm treasures in the past few
years. For instance, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM Studios and
Sony/Columbia are contributing nine recently restored films to the
programme.
The German Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv saw the Retrospective as
an opportunity to make "Flying Clipper – Traumreise unter weißen
Segeln" (Hermann Leitner/Rudolf Nußgruber, 1961/62), the first
German wide-gauge production, available again in its original format.
The archive had a shrunken, faded 70-mm print of the film, and the
relatively well-preserved original negative and the corresponding
magnetic audio recordings. Yet worldwide only a few film laboratories
are still in a position to print this material on 70-mm film stock. With
Fotokem, a company in the USA, the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv had a
competent partner that could be entrusted with striking a new print with
a restored soundtrack - and by so doing, it has contributed
significantly to preserving the legacy of German 70-mm film. "Flying
Clipper" will be presented to the public during the Berlinale, on
February 11, 2009; rightsholder and actress Hannelore Bollmann Cantor
will attend the screening.
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Berlinale Retrospective 2009: 70 mm
- “Bigger than Life”
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70mm retro page
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Events at the Filmhaus and Guests of the
Retrospective
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Camera
Assistant Mr. Gerhard Fromm will attend the 70mm festival. Image from 16.
February 2009 by Thomas Hauerslev
One of Germany’s most eminent wide-gauge
enthusiasts is film director Tom Tykwer. Parts of his latest work, "The
International", which will open the Berlinale, were shot on 65mm
negative *). In a discussion with cinematographer Frank Griebe, and ARRI’s
Head of Lab & Postproduction Josef Reidinger in the Deutsche Kinemathek on
February 7, Tom Tykwer will explore the course of wide-gauge film from the
past to its use in present-day productions. Renowned English film historian
Kevin Brownlow will go even further back in history. In his talk on February
8, he will give an overview of large-format presentations, from Biograph’s
first experiments to
Natural Vision
and Fox Grandeur.
Among the guests attending the other panel discussions will be a number of
international experts, for instance, Schawn Belston, who has been in charge
of restoring many 70-mm titles at Twentieth Century Fox; and Gert Koshofer,
author of the essay in this year’s
Retrospective publication. Specialists
like Gerhard Fromm, who is extremely versed in, e.g.,
Superpanorama MCS 70, will report on filmmaking with this format.
In more recent years, wide-gauge film has repeatedly demonstrated that it is
the proper format for extraordinary film projects.
Olivier Brunet’s
"Fanny´s Wedding" (1996-99), an award-winning French short film,
impressively shows that 70-mm film has in no way lost its justification. In
Berlin, Brunet will present his remarkable experimental film, which
interweaves time and texture, mixing archive footage, grainy black-and-white
pictures and stunning 65-mm images, while oscillating back and forth between
documentation and fiction. Also the Norwegian director
Morten Skallerud is
expected to attend the Retrospective. His twelve-minute film "Året
gjennom Børfjord" ("A
Year Along the Abandoned Road", 1988-91) –
which is both a passage through time and space, and a portrait of a remote
fishing village in northern Norway – combines a journey through four seasons
with continuous movement through the village, and hence also stands for the
innovative use of film as a medium.
More information about the guests and events of the Retrospective will be
announced shortly at
www.deutsche-kinemathek.de and
www.berlinale.de
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*) Only
parts were filmed in 65mm with
ARRI 765. Less than 5 minutes are in the
film, Editor |
Films in the Retrospective (subject to change)
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"2001:A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick, with Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester. GB/USA 1965-68
"Baraka" by Ron Fricke. USA 1990-92
"Ben Hur" by William Wyler, with Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd.
USA 1958/59
"Cheyenne Autumn" by John Ford, with Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl
Malden. USA 1963/64
"Cleopatra" by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,
Rex Harrison. USA 1961-63
"Dnevnyje zvyozdy" ("The Stars of the Day") by Igor Talankin, with Alla Demidova,
Andrei Popov, Konstantin Baranov. USSR 1966/68
"Flying Clipper – Traumreise unter weißen Segeln" by Hermann Leitner, Rudolf
Nußgruber. FRG 1961/62
"Goya" by Konrad Wolf with Donatas Banionis, Olivera Katarina, Fred Düren.
GDR/USSR 1969-71
"Hello, Dolly!" by Gene Kelly, with Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Louis
Armstrong. USA 1968/69
"Khartoum" by Basil Dearden, with Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard
Johnson. GB/USA 1965/66
"Lawrence of Arabia" by David Lean, with Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony
Quinn. GB/USA 1961/62
"Lord Jim" by Richard Brooks, with Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens.
GB/USA 1963-65
"Mutiny on the Bounty" by Lewis Milestone, with Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard,
Richard Harris. USA 1960-62
"Optimisticheskaya tragediya" ("The Optimistic Tragedy") by Samson Samsonov,
with Margarita Volodina, Boris Andreyev, Vyacheslav Tikhonov. USSR 1963
"Patton" by Franklin J. Schaffner, with George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael
Bates. USA 1968-70
"Play
Time" by Jacques Tati, with Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline
Lecomte. France/Italy 1964-67
"Povest’ plamennykh let" ("The
Story of the Flaming Years") by Julija Solnceva,
with Nikolai Vingranovski, Svetlana Zhgun, Boris Andreyev. USSR 1960/61
"Ryan´s
Daughter" by David Lean, with Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Trevor
Howard. GB/USA 1969/70
"The Sound of Music" by Robert Wise, with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer,
Eleanor Parker. USA 1964/65
"STAR!" by Robert Wise, with Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig. USA
1967/68
"Voina i mir" ("War and Peace") by Sergei Bondarchuk, with Lyudmila Savelyeva,
Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov. USSR 1962-67
"West Side Story" by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, with Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris. USA 1960/61 |
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Short Films
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"Året gjennom Børfjord" ("A
Year Along the Abandoned Road") by Morten Skallerud. Norway 1988-91
"Le Mariage de Fanny" ("Fanny´s
Wedding") by Olivier Brunet, with Dominique
Blanc, André S. Labarthe. France 1996-99
"The Miracle of
Todd-AO" by Juan C. Hutchison. USA 1956
"Sky over Holland" by John Fernhout. Netherlands 1967
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