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"The Hateful Eight" 7OMM Road Show Gala premiere in
Berlin Tuesday, 26. January 2016 |
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Written by: Gerhard
Witte, in70mm.com reporter, Berlin |
Date:
27.01.2016 |
"The Hateful Eight" 7OMM Road Show Gala premiered at the Zoo Palast in
Berlin (Germany) Tuesday 26. January 2016. Gerhard Witte, local in70mm.com
reporter was on the spot to take the pictures. A
concentrated Quentin Tarantino signing autographs for his fans in Germany.
Image by Gerhard Witte
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premiere in Berlin Tuesday 26. January 2016
I didn't attend the German Gala Premiere at around 8 pm, but I was curious
to see what there would happen in front of the cinema and, of course,
throwing a look at the premiere guests – especially at the announced Quentin
Tarantino. Berlin's blood-red illuminated "Zoo-Palast" looked in the
darkness like a sparkling diamond.
There were, of course, many onlookers and everything had been well prepared.
Of course were there fencings between the invited guests, the numerous press
people with their partly big cameras and the interested people from the
street like me. It was often not easy for me to push my way through the
jostling crowd – especially, when stars like Quentin Tarantino, Kurt Russell
(John Ruth "The Hangman") and perhaps, I unfortunately didn't notice it,
Jennifer Jason Leigh (Daisy Domergue "The Prisoner") came to the fencing in
order to enjoy onlookers with their signatures. Tarantino took himself a lot
of time for that. TV and radio were on spot and reporters interviewed the
stars.
Here a new
YouTube clip showing all in front of the cinema's impressive curtain
interviewed by Steven Gätjen, and
another clip about the Berlin premiere.
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More in 70mm reading:
Quentin
Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" in Ultra Panavision 70
Gerhard Witte's
in70mm.com Library
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premiere in Berlin Tuesday 26. January 2016
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"The
Hateful Eight" – a German poster of Quentin Tarantino's 8th movie.
Experience it in stunning 70mm format.
On Saturday (30.01.2016), I watched the movie at the 12 noon performance
(see the four additionally inserted photos taken by me in the gallery).
There was even distributed an attractive 16-page colorful souvenir brochure,
all translated into German language. Prior to the main feature, the
cinemagoers were informed via a slide projection about the 12-minute
intermission (No. 29 in the gallery). Apart from some short slight image
flickering at the movie's beginning, the screening was good, masked in a
correct aspect ratio. The sound convinced – the blizzard outside Minnie's
Haberdashery, an inn in the mountains and a stagecoach stopover on a
mountain pass, filled the whole auditorium (I shivered a little bit). It was
great to enjoy the movie with an OVERTURE and an INTERMISSION – a roadshow
feeling. You could see a CINERAMA logo at the
beginning of the movie, which is a nice reminder of earlier times.
In my mind's eye, real CINERAMA was only the 3-strip (3 x 35mm) projection
onto the deeply curved (mostly louvered) screens also with its impressive
magnetic SEP MAG 7- Channel Surround Sound. By 1963, American major film
studios agreed that 3-strip CINERAMA was too complicated (filming and
projection, the problem with the seams – a highly technical job), too
personnel-intensive and, of course, also too expensive. Then came Stanley
Kramer's epic comedy "It´s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (USA, 1963),
shot in single lens Ultra Panavison-70 film format. It was presented "in
70mm CINERAMA" projected with a special CINERAMA lens in order to compensate
for the distortions caused by the new single-lens projection process to the
right and left side of the deeply curved screens and with its 6-Channel
Magnetic Surround Sound on the film. At the time, there were also produced
some CINERAMA rectified prints.
I admire Quentin Tarantino for his dedication and courage that he had shot
the movie in Ultra Panavision-70 and that he is also presenting it worldwide
as a 70mm Roadshow Event. A thank you for that, and also thanks to Berlin's
"Zoo-Palast" for retaining and practicing the analogue 70mm projection
technology, the Weinstein Company (an independent American film studio) for
the movie's distribution in the USA and Universum Film in Germany.
…and apologies for the partly blurred images. I am unfortunately no expert
in the field of photography. I added them anyway because I wanted to give an
impression of the event's atmosphere. In the OVERTURE image (No. 30) you can
also see the cinema's rising balloon curtain shortly before the music's end.
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