Word: 70mm
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...longer officially called the Overlooked, but Ebertfest. Some filmmakers demurred at having their films seem "prematurely overlooked." This year, Begging Naked doesn't yet have distribution. And the fest will be one of the few places to ever see a restored 70mm print of Baraka...
...also save one slot each year for a 70mm screening. Is the 70mm format something that studios have overlooked? Which 70mm screening has impressed you most, over the life of your festival...
...70mm is a glorious visual spectacle. As movie theaters have grown smaller, so have the movies they show. IMAX is glorious, but the company is now expanding into multiplexes without true IMAX screens, and often using digital instead of their own 70mm format. Some of our great moments: Patton, Oklahoma! in Todd-AO 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 notes in the film that he was born "in the computer lab in Urbana, Illinois." The restored Virginia Theater uses a vast, beautiful screen...
...films he considers to have been overlooked by the marketplace. ?Overlooked can mean several things. Some are films that never found their audience in the movie theaters; others were never picked up by a distributor; still others are in film idioms that are simply considered archaic - silent films or 70mm spectacles, for example...
...same scene figured prominently in the '50s technicolor classic, Cimmarron, based on a novel by Edna Ferber. And although Howard's sweeping images of the historic land rush are not significantly different from those in Cimmarron, his decision to shoot his movie in 70mm film is invaluable to conveying the scope of the race...