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Widescreen Weekend 2009 Brochure Now in its 16th year, the Widescreen Weekend welcomes all those fans of large format and widescreen films – CinemaScope, VistaVision, 70mm, Cinerama and IMAX – and presents an array of past classics from the vaults of the National Media Museum. A weekend to wallow in the nostalgic best of cinema. WidEScrEEN PASSES £85 / £65 AvailablE FROM THE BOX OFFICE 0870 70 10 200 Faubourg 36 The Bible The Taming of the Shrew The King and I Where Eagles Dare Becket THE KING AND I FAUBOURG 36 (70MM) THE BIBLE… IN THE WHERE EAGLES DARE (70mm) THE TAMING OF THE BECKET (70MM) Thursday 19 March Friday 20 March BEGINNING (70MM) Friday 20 March SHREW (70MM) Sunday 22 March Dir. Walter Lang Dir. Christophe Barratier Fra/Ger/ Saturday 21 March Dir. Brian G. Hutton USA 1968 Friday 20 March Dir. Peter Glenville GB 1964 USA 1956 133 mins (U) Czech Rep 120 mins (adv 12A) Dir. John Huston Italy 1966 158 mins with intermission (PG) Dir. Franco Zeffirelli 148 mins with intermission (PG) Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Subtitles 218 mins with intermission (U) Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, USA/Italy 1967 116 mins (U) Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Mary Ure, Derren Nesbitt Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit Walter Lang’s production Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder Richard Harris, John Huston, Alistair MacLean’s preposterous Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern The volatile relationship became the definitive Sorrowful cuckold Pigoil, stage Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, yet hugely enjoyable WWII thriller Lusty, roguish Petruchio between old friends and version of the Rodgers and manager at a boarded-up Ava Gardner, Peter O’Toole is triumphantly transferred to the pursues feisty, tempestuous sometime enemies Henry II Hammerstein musical. Parisian theatre, loses his son John Huston transfers the first big screen. Richard Burton is the Katharina to make her his and Thomas Becket is explored Deborah Kerr is the when the authorities place 22 chapters of The Bible onto the double agent who leads a squad wife. An unrestrained, bawdy in this glorious historical indomitable English governess the boy with his mother. Pigoil big screen with an all-star cast. of crack troops to an impregnable comedy spectacular, The pageant. The only film to enlisted to teach the children responds in the only way he The stories of the Garden of Eden, alpine schloss to rescue an American Taming of the Shrew is a properly exploit the on-screen of the egocentric King of Siam. can: by putting on a show at the Cain and Abel, Noah, and Abraham general. Burton in partnership with rumbustious adventure as Taylor dynamic of Burton and O’Toole, Great songs, a strong story rundown music hall. With the and Isaac are there to be seen in Clint Eastwood make this one of the is pummelled, pounded, kicked, this is a period blockbuster and a role that Yul Brynner camaraderie of his colleagues, he a lavish, but tasteful, production all-time classic war movies. slapped, spanked and generally with bite as the monarchy was determined never to brings the theatre back to life. A that represents Hollywood at its This screening has been made possible knocked around by Burton as clashes with the church. Based leave behind. runaway hit in France. most extravagant. thanks to the generosity of Cinema he woos, wins, weds and finally on the play by Jean Anouilh. Retro Magazine domesticates his fiery love. 30 31 Bradford International Film Festival is grateful to David Jones for the use of images from his personal collection. How the West Was Won Carousel West Side Story UK DIGITAL PREMIERE WEST SIDE STORY (70MM) CAROUSEL KHARTOUM (70MM) THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN YEAR OF THE DRAGON HOW THE WEST WAS WON Saturday 21 March Sunday 22 March Sunday 22 March (70MM) Monday 23 March Saturday 21 March Dirs. Robert Wise, Jerome Dir. Henry King Dirs. Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon Monday 23 March Dir. Michael Cimino Dirs. Henry Hathaway, John Ford, Robbins USA 1961 151 mins with USA 1956 128 mins (U) GB 134 mins with intermission Dir. Sidney Pollack USA 1985 134 mins (18) George Marshall USA 1962 162 intermission (U) Natalie Wood, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, (U) Ultra Panavision 70 USA 1979 122 mins (PG) Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, mins with intermission (U) Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, John Termo Debbie Reynolds, Henry Fonda, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris Billy Bigelow is dead. In Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson Stanley White is appointed to James Stewart, Gregory Peck, A rare chance to see one of the heaven, he asks to go back General Charles “Chinese” Gordon Good-hearted cowboy star take care of rising crime in New Carroll Baker, John Wayne, greatest musicals ever made in to earth for just one day to attempts to free the people of Sonny Steele lands a lucrative York’s Chinatown district and Richard Widmark the format in which it was shot: help his struggling family Khartoum from almost certain advertising contract. But he opts to take a hard line. Oliver Bringing together three of the Super Panavision 70. Leonard and set his own conscience destruction by a Muslim army. becomes disenchanted with the Stone’s screenplay is founded on best Hollywood western directors, Bernstein’s musical, based on straight. Carousel boasts some Boasting wonderful battle scenes falseness of his new world and scenes of graphic violence while How the West Was Won tells the Romeo and Juliet but translated memorable songs, not least If (which only the large gauge format rides off into the night. Pursued Mickey Rourke turns in a rock- story of the development of the to 1960s New York street gangs, I Loved You, You’ll Never Walk that is 70mm can justify) Khartoum by Hallie Martin, a female TV solid performance. The late Alex west from a pioneering family is a perennial favourite. Alone and June Is Bustin’ Out is an outstanding film to behold. news reporter, Sonny is tracked Thomson (BIFF 2004) lights the from the 1830s to the Civil War. This screening of Khartoum has This screening of West Side Story is All Over – all now considered down. Sparks fly and, against the film with subtlety. classics. been made possible thanks to the odds, these two very different This screening was made possible by supported by www.laserhotline.de generosity of Tom March . the support of Arts Alliance Media and Tom March people fall in love. 32 33 Bradford: City of Film To mark Bradford’s bid to become the first UNESCO City of Film, Bradford International Film Festival is proud to present this special strand celebrating our city’s rich and varied cinematic heritage. Where Eagles Dare THIS IS CINERAMA AT THE CUTTING EDGE: CINEramacaNA ROOM AT THE TOP PIERREPOINT CENTENARY TRIBUTE: Friday 20 March DIGITAL CINEMA Sunday 22 March Saturday 14 March Monday 16 March MICHAEL RENNIE Dirs. Merian C. Cooper, With Darren Briggs The projection team will inform, Dir. Jack Clayton Dir. Adrian Shergold (1909-71) Michael Todd, Fred Rickey Saturday 20 March enlighten and entertain with GB 1958 117 mins (15) b/w GB 2005 95 mins (15) THE DAY THE EARTH USA 1952 120 mins (U) This session will cover the current a multitude of clips, reels and Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, STOOD STILL This is the original Cinerama roll-out of D-Cinema and will informative introductions. The Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit Eddie Marsan, James Corden Thursday 26 March feature which launched the examine its impact both in the UK session will also include the annual Based on John Braine’s Bradford- Timothy Spall is simply immense Dir. Robert Wise widescreen era and is about and abroad. In addition it will look on-stage photograph in front of set novel about an ambitious as Albert Pierrepoint, the average USA 1951 92 mins (PG) b/w as fun a piece of Americana as at Digital IMAX and a provide a the louvred Cinerama screen and young clerk, Room at the Top is a bloke (from Bradford) who Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, you are ever likely to see. More demonstration of Dolby’s digital the annual quiz – this year kindly genuine British classic, extensively became Britain’s chief hangman Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, than a technological curio, it’s a 3D system. submitted by academy member shot in the city itself. Joe Lampton throughout the 1940s and ‘50s. Billy Gray, Francis Bavier document of its era. Showing on Francois Carrin. One of then most is on the way up moving from This is acting at its finest as the and Lock Martin as Gort three projectors in Pictureville anticipated events in the Festival. poverty to a life in the nearby city. story follows one man’s evolution When a dignified and benevolent Cinema, the film still offers a With an eye for the women, he is from ordinary husband to alien named Klaatu lands his giddy, white-knuckle ride. THIS IS NEW ZEALAND chasing the daughter of a local perfectionist executioner. flying saucer in Washington and CINERAMA VENTURES Sunday 22 March industrialist who can help his Spall doesn’t disappoint and warns Earth that it should cease Presented by Dir. Hugh Macdonald NZ career, but is also having an affair the film is a showcase for his its production of atomic weapons RICHARD BURTON: David Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch 1969 58 mins (adv U) with French beauty, Alice. incredible talent. otherwise his giant robot Gort LION OF THE WELSH Saturday 21 March 10am Documentary will destroy the planet.
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