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4th Seminar of 70mm film in Krnov 2009
3. - 5. April 2009, Kino Mir 70, Krnov, The Czech Republic

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Written by: Jakub Klíma Date: 04.03.2009
4th Seminar of 70mm film in Krnov 3 - 5 . April 2009.

Under patronage of the Municipal centre of information and culture Krnov, together with Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of town major of Krnov, the Mir 70 theatre will again be the meeting point for film enthusiasts from not only the Czech Republic but also visitors from many European counties, including Austria, Holland, France, Poland and Germany.

In 2009, we are remembering 40th anniversary of first 70mm screening in Mír 70 theather. The first 70mm feature film shown to Krnov's audience was "Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines", therefore this titel can not be left out from this year programm. Another film which is enjoying it's anniversary is Alien which has been released 30 years ago. Among these titels we are proud to announce screenings of "2001: Space Odyssey" and "The Last Valley" (theatrical premiere). As a sneak-preview we managed to bring to our audience new french film "Faubourg 36".

Apart the film excitement every festival visitor can enjoy small exhibition of screening technique in Mir theather foyer, film posters are to be on display and lots of interesting comments to every film. All the visitor will have the opportunity to see „the behind the scene“ of every projection room and to see the technology at work (Meopta UM 70/35 projectors).

Should you have any further inquiries, feel free to contac us at our website. You can also proceed on-line accreditation here, or via my e-mail address:

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Jakub Klíma
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Weekend 7OMM Program & Tickets

 
Friday, 3. April
14:30 - Signale – Ein Weltraumabenteuer (88 min. + introduction ) 70 mm 6-track magnetic
16:45 - Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (132 min. + introduction + intermission ) 70 mm 6-track magnetic
19:45 - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (138 min. + introduction + intermission ) 70 mm DTS
22:15 „Get Together“ ( to 40th anniversary 70mm screening in Mir 70 thearther )

Saturday, 4. April
10:00 - Goya (136 min. + introduction + intermission ) 70 mm 6-track magnetic
13:00 – Baraka (96 min. + intermission ) 70 mm 6-track Dolby A
15:00 – Faubourg (120 min. + introduction ) 70 mm film DTS
18:00 – 2001: Space Odyssey (149 min. + introduction + intermission) 70mm 6 track Dolby SR
21:15 - Alien (117 min. + introduction ) 70 mm 6-track Dolby A
23:30 – The Untouchables (119 min. + introduction ) 70 mm 6-track Dolby A

Sunday, 5. April
10:00 The Last Valley (125 min. + introduction + intermission ) 70 mm 6-track magnetic
12:45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (145min + introduction ) 70 mm 6-track magnetic Dolby A
15:45 - Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (138 min. + introduction + intermission ) 70 mm DTS
18:45 – 2001: Space Odyssey (149 min. + introduction + intermission) 70mm 6 track Dolby SR

Includes admission to all screenings during the three days. It does not include accommodation.

Festival Pass Price: 550 CZK/ approx. 20 EUR (it may change due exchange rate).

Reservation will be accepted by Jakub Klíma
 
 

Weekend 7OMM Program. Film Info

 

Friday, 3. April 2009

Signale

“Signale - Ein Weltraumabenteuer” (1:28). Filmed in: 70mm, 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: DEFA 70. Presented in the original 70mm German version on the curved screen. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: DDR. Production year: 1970. World Premiere: 17.12.1970 Kosmos, East Berlin, DDR. Czeck premiere: 1.10.1971. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 11.2.1972

Directed by: Gottfried Kolditz. Written by: Gottfried Kolditz & C.U. Wiesner. Original Music by: Karl-Ernst Sasse. Cinematography by Otto Hanisch. Film Editing by: Helga Gentz Piotr Pawlowski (Veikko), Ewgeni Sharikow (Pawel), Gojko Mitic (Terry), Alfred Müller (Konrad), Helmut Schreiber (Gaston)

Looking for DEFA 70
 

"Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle"

“Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle” (2:20) + Intermission after reel 4. Filmed in: 70mm, 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: DEFA 70. Presented in the original  70mm German version with Czeck subtitles on the curved screen. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: DDR. Production year: 1968. World Premiere: 22.11.1968 Kino International, East Berlin, DDR. Czeck premiere: 3.8.1970. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 21.8.1970

Directed by Werner W. Wallroth. Music by Karl-Ernst Sasse. Cinematography by Eberhard Borkmann and Hans-Jürgen Kruse

Manfred Krug (Hauptmann Florian),  Hartmut Beer (Geheimpolizist zu Pferde), Regina Beyer (Duchessa), Herwart Grosse (Friedrich II.), Rolf Herricht (Amadeus), Jutta Klöppel (Fanny), Herbert Köfer (Der Medicus)

German version

From DEFA Film Library:

This story of the miller Florian, who gave all his money to the war against Napoleon, is loosely based on a true story. After the war, Florian's reimbursement is challenged, and he must also pay taxes on his destroyed mill. He resists the tax collectors and takes off to Vienna, where he intends to defend his rights. On the way, he rescues the Duchess of Guastalla from assault. She also wants to go to Vienna, as His Majesty Franz II is trying to contest an heir in her favor. With cunning, luck, and dagger, Florian fights his way through a slew of nobility and their secret police. In the end, he acquires multiple titles, and the Duchess acquires him.

70mm print thanks to Kino Mir 70 cinema, Krnov, Czech Republic

DEFA 70 films and Looking for DEFA 70

 

"Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines"

Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I flew from London to Paris, in 25 hours and 11 minutes (2:18) + intermission. Filmed in: 65mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Todd-AO. Presented on: The curved screen in Todd-AO with 6-track DTS Stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1965. World Premiere: 03.06.1965 Astoria, London, England. Czeck premiere: 8.9.1967. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 23.5.1969

40th anniversary screening

allmovie.com: Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" is set in 1910. In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley (Robert Morley) offers 10,000 pounds to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. A huge number of hopefuls enter the contest, including the scheming Sir Percy Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas), who, with the help of his henchman Courtney (Eric Sykes), attempts to sabotage the other entries. There is also a love triangle featuring Orvil Newton (Stuart Whitman) and Richard Mays (James Fox) competing for the heart of Patricia Rawnsley (Sarah Miles).

What is Todd-AO?

"TODD-AO 70mm film, plus the TODD-AO special camera, plus the TODD-AO newly developed 6 channel high fidelity magnetic sound, plus the TODD-AO "all purpose" 70mm projector and the great arched TODD-AO screen equal the most revolutionary of all screen inventions, with clarity of perspective, detail and color reproduction never before achieved. As a result, with TODD-AO, audience participation now has its fullest and truest expression. Todd-AO is the dream of Michael Todd, plus the technical skills of the American Optical Company whose research staff headed by Dr. Brian O'Brien, jointly succeeded in developing "a motion picture system that would photograph action in a very wide angle....with one camera....on one strip of film....to be projected from a single projector....on a very wide screen....with a quality so perfect that the audience would be part of the action, not just passive spectators.
 

Saturday, 4. April 2009

"Goya"

"Goya – oder der arge Weg der Erkenntnis" / "Goya – or the hard way to enlightment" (3:26). Filmed in: 70mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: DEFA 70. Presented on: The curved screen in DEFA 70 with 6-track magnetic stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: DDR. Production year: 1970. World Premiere: 16.09.1971, Kosmos, Berlin, DDR. Czeck premiere: 20.4.1973. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 9.11.1973.

Directed by Konrad Wolf. Director of Photography: W. Bergmann, K. Ryshow. Cinematography: Werner Bergmann, Konstantin Ryschow. Music: Kara and Faradsh Karajew. Set Design: Alfred Hischmeier, Waleri Jurkewitsch. Costume Design: Ludmilla Schildknecht, Joachim Dittrich. Dramaturge: Walter Janka, Alexander Dymschitz. Screenplay: Angel Wagenstein. DEFA 1971

Donatas Banionis (Goya), Olivera Vugo (Duchess Alba), Fred Düren (Esteve), Tatjana Lolowa (Queen Maria Luisa), Rolf Hoppe (King Carlos IV), Ernst Busch (Jovellanos), Carmen Herold (Maria Rosario)

DEFA 70 movies

By Ingolf Vonau, Berlin, Germany

Certainly the most important and artistic significant 70mm Feature Film Production of DEFA

Don Francisco de Goya Lucientes (1746 - 1828) is an artist to the court of Karl IV of Spain. He is well known and well-to-do, but feels himself becoming more and more remote from the daily life and suffering of the Spanish people. After meeting the singer Maria Rosario in a Madrid tavern, where she is singing revolutionary songs, he becomes even more reflective. Rosario is hauled before the Inquisition. Goya is invited to attend as a warning not to stray from the official path. But it doesn't stop him from increasingly leaving the castle to portray the desires and nightmares of simple people in his paintings. Soon the Inquisition is on his trail…

Based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel "This is the hour – Goya", and starring the Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis as main character, the director Konrad Wolf creates an unconventional adaptation with images of lasting impressions. Declared aim of that big DEFA co production with the Russian LENFILM was to portrait the character of the artist Goya and to show his painful process of enlightenment in realizing the true Spanish society. How closely can an artist align himself with the powers that be if he wants to be honest and creative?

A destiny of an artist as allegory to present. The film was supposed to be different to the western style of biographical illustrative screen adaptations in using the cinematographic tools. Director of Photography Werner Bergmann and his Russian Colleague Konstantin Ryshow were trying to bring to appear their special view on how to use wide-screen photography in filmmaking. According to their principle that only the task not the possibility demands the format. A point of view sometimes contrary to the western view of cinematography. At premier night the 2 part film had a length of 161 min. Some months later the director himself changed the montage and shortened the film to 134 min. It was his own decision to make the intention in portraying the painter Goya more understandable. This last version is the only available one.

Festivals and Awards:

• Moscow International Film Festival, Special Jury Award, 1971
 

"Baraka"

"Baraka" (1:36). Filmed in: 65mm 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Todd-AO 70mm. Presented: on the curved screen in Todd-AO with 6-track magnetic stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1992. World Premiere: 30.08.1992, Montreal World Film Festival. Montreal, Canada. Czeck premiere: 15.4.1994. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 6.6.1995

Directed by Ron Fricke. Written by: Constantine Nicholas & Genevieve Nicholas. Produced by Mark Magidson & Alton Walpole. Music by Michael Stearns. Cinematography by Ron Fricke. Edited by David Aubrey, Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson

Ron Fricke's next film "Samsara" - a work in progress

allmovie.com: Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as "breath of life" or "blessing," "Baraka" is Ron Fricke's impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio's non-verbal documentary film "Koyaanisqatsi". Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio's film, and for "Baraka" he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on "Koyaanisqatsi". The result is a tour-de-force in 70mm: a cinematic "guided meditation" (Fricke's own description) shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period that unites religious ritual, the phenomena of nature, and man's own destructive powers into a web of moving images. Fricke's camera ranges, in meditative slow motion or bewildering time-lapse, over the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, the Ryoan-Ji temple in Kyoto, Lake Natron in Tanzania, burning oil fields in Kuwait, the smoldering precipice of an active volcano, a busy subway terminal, tribal celebrations of the Masai in Kenya, chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery...and on and on, through locales across the globe. To execute the film's time-lapse sequences, Fricke had a special camera built that combined time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements of the camera. In one evening sequence a desert sky turns black, and the stars roll by, as the camera moves slowly forward under the trees. The feeling is like that of viewing the universe through a powerful telescope: that we are indeed on a tiny orb hurtling through a star-filled void. The film is complemented by the hybrid world-music of Michael Stearns.
 

"Faubourg 36"

15.00 – 17.00 "Faubourg 36" Filmed in: 35mm, 4 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: ______. Presented on: The flat screen in a new 70mm print with 6-track DTS stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: France. Production year: 2008 World Premiere: Gaumont Opera cinema, 24.09.2008, France. Also screened at the Toronto Film Festival, Canada 6 September 2008.

Director: Christophe Barratier. Writer: Christophe Barratier (writer) Pierre Philippe (dialogue). Produced by: Original Music by Reinhardt Wagner. Cinematography by Tom Stern (director of photography). Film Editing by Yves Deschamps. Production Design by Jean Rabasse

Gérard Jugnot (Pigoil), Clovis Cornillac (Milou). Kad Merad (Jacky Nora Arnezeder (Douce). Pierre Richard (Monsieur TSF), Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (Galapiat), Maxence Perrin (Jojo), François Morel (Célestin

The setting is spring 1936; a working-class district in the north of Paris. This neighborhood probably had a name once but now everyone simply calls it the Faubourg. In early may, three residents of the Faubourg - Pigoil, Milou, and Jacky - still sulk over the closing of the Chansonia four months ago. Supported by the locals who live to the rhythm of monsieur Tsf’s radio, the three friends decide to take hold of their destiny by producing the “hit” musical the Chansonia has always needed. With the help of the town, and the arrival of a mysterious and beautiful young actress named Duce, Pigoil, Milou, and Jacky bring the magic of the stage back to the Chansonia.

"Faubourg 36" in 70mm in Paris, France + "Faubourg 36" Official movie site
 

"2001: A Space Odyssey"

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (2:29) + intermission. Filmed in: 65mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Super Panavision 70. Presented: On the curved screen with 6-track Dolby Stereo, format 43. Aspect ratio: 2,21;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1968. World Premiere: 02.04.1968 The Uptown Theatre, Washington, USA.
Czeck premiere:
24.4.1970. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 27.11.1970.

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))

Oscar: Special Visual Effects, Stanley Kubrick

Academy Award Nominated: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Director, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen

Full credits
The CD Soundtrack
A Roadshow Odyssey
Restoring the soundtrack
"2001" and the
curved screen
The Original Reserved Seat Engagements Of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Christiane Kubrick's Website
Creating special effects for "2001"
Kubrick Films and old Christiane Kubrick web site hosted by Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers' 7 year old "2001" web site

10th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's passing

allmovie.com: A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Man," a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith alien to their surroundings. To the strains of Strauss's 1896 Also sprach Zarathustra, a hominid invents the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. As the hominid tosses the bone in the air, Kubrick cuts to a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the moon to check out the discovery of a strange object on the moon's surface: a black monolith. As the sun's rays strike the stone, however, it emits a piercing, deafening sound that fills the investigators' headphones and stops them in their path.

Cutting ahead 18 months, impassive astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) head toward Jupiter on the spaceship Discovery, their only company three hibernating astronauts and the vocal, man-made HAL 9000 computer running the entire ship. When the all-too-human HAL malfunctions, however, he tries to murder the astronauts to cover his error, forcing Bowman to defend himself the only way he can. Free of HAL, and finally informed of the voyage's purpose by a recording from Floyd, Bowman journeys to "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite," through the psychedelic slit-scan star-gate to an 18th century room, and the completion of the monolith's evolutionary mission.
 

Alien

“Alien” (1:57). Filmed in: 35mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented: On the curved screen with 6-track Dolby Stereo, format 42. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1979. World Premiere: 25.05.1979, USA. Czeck premiere: 1.1.1983. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 2.4.1983

“Alien” 70mm openings

30th anniversary screening

allmovie.com: "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company.
 

The Untouchables

“The Untouchables” (1:59). Filmed in: 35mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Panavision. Presented: On the curved screen with 6-track Dolby Stereo, format 43. Aspect ratio: 2,35;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1987. World Premiere: 02.06.1987, USA. Czeck premiere: 6.3.1992. Czeck premiere: 1.7.1990. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 9.10.1990

allmovie.com: Like the TV series that shared the same title, "The Untouchables" was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the local police department is rampant. His mission is to put crime lord Capone (Robert De Niro) out of business, but Capone is so powerful and popular that Ness is not taken seriously by the law or the press. One night, discouraged, he meets a veteran patrolman, Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery), and discovers that the acerbic Irishman is the one honest man he's been seeking. Malone has soon helped Ness recruit a gunslinger rookie, George Stone (Andy Garcia), and, joined by nebbish accountant Oscar Wallace (Charles Martin Smith), the men doggedly pursue Capone and his illegal interests. At first a laughingstock, Ness soon has Capone outraged over his and Malone's sometimes law-bending tactics, and the vain mobster strikes back in vicious style. Ultimately, it is the most unexpected and minor of crimes, tax evasion, which proves Capone's undoing. All of the credits for The Untouchables boasted big names, including music from Ennio Morricone and costumes by Giorgio Armani. Director Brian De Palma continued his tradition of including a homage to past masters of the cinema with a taut stairway shoot-out reminiscent of a similar sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925).
 

Sunday, 5. April 2009

"The Last Valley"

"The Last Valley" (2:06) (+ intermission). Filmed in: 65mm, 5 perforations, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Todd-AO. Presented: On the curved screen in a vintage Todd-AO 70mm print with 6-track magnetic stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21:1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1970 World Premiere: 21.01.1971, Rivoli, New York. Czeck premiere, Kino Mir 70: 05.04.2009

Directed and produced by James Clavell. Written by James Clavell. Music by John Barry. Cinematography by Norman Warwick & John Wilcox. Edited by John Bloom

Michael Caine (The Captain), Omar Sharif (Vogel), Florinda Bolkan (Erica), Nigel Davenport (Gruber), Per Oscarsson (Father Sebastian)

Original version. 70mm print thanks to National Media
Museum and the Bradford International Film Festival

The film opens with an old style UK ‘AA’ Certificate followed by silent ‘Cinerama Releasing’ and ‘ABC’ trademarks. The Intermission title is 39 feet long at the end of reel 5. Part 6 has a 3 min play in to the second half. There is no play in to the first half. Very short end credits. Last credit is a silent ‘Soundtrack Available…’ etc.

70mm print number 11 / 8 reels. Taking a Mini View in a Maxi Way

Todd-AO films

allmovie.com: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes an oasis of peace. Vogel (Omar Sharif), a one-time school teacher now on the run, travels into the peaceful valley. Following Vogel a short time later is a rag-tag and exhausted army, led by The Captain (Michael Caine). Utilizing Vogel as a mediator, the Captain arranges a truce with the valley population -- pledging to protect the people of the valley from invasion in return for food and shelter during the cold winter months. At the end of the season, the army leaves to fight another battle, Vogel is asked to depart from the hidden valley, and the valley and its population continues on and endures.
 

Terminator 2 - Judgement Day

“Terminato 2 - Judgement Day” (2:17). Filmed in: 35mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Panavision Super 35. Presented: On the curved screen with 6-track Dolby Stereo, format 43. Aspect ratio: 2,21;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1991. World Premiere: 01.07.1991, USA. Czeck premiere: 6.3.1992. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 17.4.1992

allmovie.com: A sequel to the low-budget sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor, now a single mother to rebellious teen John Connor (Edward Furlong), during the late nineties. Having been informed by a time-traveling soldier in the first film that John will one day grow up to become humanity's savior from a computer-controlled Armageddon, Sarah has responded by becoming a muscle-bound she-warrior bent on educating John in survival tactics and battle strategies. Her ranting about humankind's future has landed Sarah in an insane asylum and John in the foster care system. The rebellious John has responded to his situation by getting into scrapes with the law. When a new and improved Terminator android called the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) arrives from the future to eliminate John, an older model T-800 (Schwarzenegger) is sent to protect the boy. The T-1000, however, has the ability to morph itself into any shape it desires, allowing it chameleon-like powers and near indestructibility. The T-800 saves John's life and helps break Sarah out of the institution. Staying only one step ahead of the dogged T-1000, Sarah leads her son and the T-800 to the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, the company that will invent a robotic intelligence that will eventually take over the world. There, they attempt to convince inventor Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) to help them stop the future from ever occurring by destroying his work. Dyson sacrifices himself in an explosion to save the world, leading to a final showdown between the two Terminators at a steel foundry.
 

"Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines"

Those Magnificient Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I flew from London to Paris, in 25 hours and 11 minutes (2:18) + intermission. Filmed in: 65mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Todd-AO. Presented on: The curved screen in Todd-AO with 6-track DTS Stereo. Aspect ratio: 2,21;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1965. World Premiere: 03.06.1965 Astoria, London, England. Czeck premiere: 8.9.1967. Kino Mir 70 premiere: 23.5.1969

What is Todd-AO?

40th anniversary screening
 

"2001: A Space Odyssey"

“2001: A Space Odyssey” (2:29) + intermission. Filmed in: 65mm, 24 frames per second. Principal photography in: Super Panavision 70. Presented: On the curved screen with 6-track Dolby Stereo, format 43. Aspect ratio: 2,21;1. Country of origin: USA. Production year: 1968. World Premiere: 02.04.1968 The Uptown Theatre, Washington, USA.

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))

Oscar: Special Visual Effects, Stanley Kubrick

Academy Award Nominated: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Director, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen

10th Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's passing
 
 
More in 70mm reading:

Krnov 2008 festival report

First 70mm Seminar
Second 70mm Seminar
Third 70mm Seminar
4th 70mm Seminar - Gallery

Internet link:

Kino Mir 70
Namesti Miru 14
794 01 Krnov
The Czech Republic

Telephone: +420 554 615 050

Head of the Kino Mir 70: Pavel Tomešek

Official Festival Page

Filmvorfuehrer.de

www.krnov.cz

ACFC

YouTube clip

Czeck posters from
terryhoponozky.cz  

 

How to get to Krnov

 
Projection and technical staff are ready to show 70mm films.

By car:

GPS: 50.086352, 17.699144

By train:

The train station is called Krnov - Hlavní nádraží (Krnov - Main Station), from the staiton it is 1,6 km to the cinema. You can take Revoluční street, when you pass Albert hypermarket you turn right, then cross the bridge and on your right you can see the movie theatre "Kino Mír".

By bus:
Bus station is next to the Albert hypermarket so you cross the bridge and on your right you can see the movie theatre "Kino Mír".

By plane:
You get to the Prague Airport (PRG) and then you can go by train from Prague to Krnov-Cvilin.

You get to the Vienna/Wien Airport (Austria) and then you can go by train from Vienna Airport to Krnov-Cvilin.

 
 

Accommodation

 
For more information, please, contact Jakub Klíma

Hotel Pepa ****
Zámecké náměstí 7
794 01 Krnov
tel.: 554 611 005, 554 610 806


Hotel Steiger ****
tel: +420 554 610 222
mobil: +420 603 272 505


Hotel Cvilín ****
Vyhlídka Krnov s.r.o.
Výletní 7,
794 01 Krnov
tel.: 554 625 275, 554 625 255, 777 559 019


Penzion Koliba
Švabinského 7,
794 01 Krnov
tel.: 554 612 803


Pension Eso
Bezručova 29
794 01 Krnov
tel./fax: 554 618 095


Penzion Šelenburk
V Zálesí 31
794 01 Krnov
tel.: 554 614 900

 
 

Kino Mir 70

 
70mm Screen size: 14 x 7m, slightly curved

First 70mm film: "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" - 23.05.1969

Sound: Dolby Stereo EX, DTS

Speakers: K.C.S. (Kelonik Cinema Sound) S- 3000, 4 OHMS, 600 WATTS (3 behind screen) + K.C.S subwoofers: C-218-A, 4 OHMS, 1200 WATTS + Effect channel: 16 speakers, Left wall: 4 speakers, right wall 4 speakers, rear wall: 8 speakers: SR-15, 8 OHMS, 200 WATTS each.

Processor: Model CP65 + DA20 + Model SA10 – EX
DTS: XD10 - CinemaMediaPlayer

Seats: 349

There is a reconstruction of audience planned in the end of August 2007. The old seats will be replaced by new, more comfortable seats. We will keep you informed. The capacity will be reduced to 320 seats.

Projectors: 2 x UM 70/35XB, 2 x Meo5XB + Meo II. X (16 mm ) optical analogue sound record, 6 channel magnetic record, 4 channel magnetic. record, Dolby Digital EX, DTS(35mm) DTS for 70mm screening is coming in September 2007

City of Krnov: 26 000 inhabitants
 
 

Credits

 
Your tickets are ready for the beautiful Kino Mir 70.

The organisers wish to thank the following individuals for their help:

Jaromír Blažejovský, PhD, from Masaryk University who was again asked about introducing each title.

Many thanks go to Pavel Tomešek, the head of the theather Mir 70 in Krnov, officals of culture department of Krnov (MIKS) for their neverending work.

Special thanks goes to Jean Pierre Gutzeit, Germany.

Many thanks to Herbert Born, Germany, Thomas Hauerslev, Denmark. Francois Carrin, France and Maciej Gill, Poland and many others for their endeavour work.
 
 
   
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