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Now in its 16th year, the Weekend welcomes all those fans of large format and widescreen – , VistaVision, 70mm, and IMAX – and presents an array of past classics from the vaults of the National Media . A weekend to wallow in the nostalgic best of cinema.

Widescreen Passes £85 / £65 Available from the box office 0870 70 10 200

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The King and I

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. Dir. Christophe Barratier Fra/Ger/ Saturday 21 March Dir. Brian G. Hutton USA 1968 Friday 20 March Dir. GB 1964 USA 1956 133 mins (U) Czech Rep 120 mins (adv 12A) Dir. 1966 158 mins with intermission (PG) Dir. 148 mins with intermission (PG) , , Subtitles 218 mins with intermission (U) Burton, , USA/Italy 1967 116 mins (U) , Peter O’Toole, , Martin Benson Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, , Derren Nesbitt , Richard Burton, , Walter Lang’s production Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder , John Huston, Alistair MacLean’s preposterous Cyril Cusack, The volatile relationship became the definitive Sorrowful cuckold Pigoil, stage , George C. Scott, yet hugely enjoyable WWII thriller Lusty, roguish between old and version of the Rodgers and manager at a boarded-up , Peter O’Toole is triumphantly transferred to the pursues feisty, tempestuous sometime enemies Henry II Hammerstein musical. Parisian , loses his son John Huston transfers the first big screen. Richard Burton is the Katharina to make her his and 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 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 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 . Retro Magazine domesticates his fiery love.

30 31 International Film Festival is grateful to David Jones for the use of images from his personal collection.

How the West Was Won

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West Side Story

UK Digital Premiere (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. , Jerome Dir. Dirs. Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon Monday 23 March Dir. Michael Cimino Dirs. , , 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) , Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, (U) Ultra 70 USA 1979 122 mins (PG) , John Lone, Ariane, mins with intermission (U) , , , Barbara Ruick , , , , John Termo , , Rita Moreno, Billy Bigelow is dead. In Richard Johnson, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson Stanley White is appointed to , , 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, , greatest musicals ever made in to for just one day to attempts to free the people of Sonny Steele lands a lucrative York’s Chinatown district and 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 . Leonard and set his own conscience destruction by a Muslim army. becomes disenchanted with the Stone’s screenplay is founded on best Hollywood 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 and 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 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 Sunday 22 March Saturday 14 March Monday 16 March Dirs. Merian C. Cooper, With Darren Briggs The projection team will inform, Dir. 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 , , , Juliet Stevenson, STOOD STILL This is the original Cinerama roll-out of D-Cinema and will informative introductions. The , 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, , 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, , than a technological curio, it’s a 3D system. submitted by academy member shot in the city itself. Joe Lampton throughout the 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. Bradford- With Tony Earnshaw The makers of During Expo 70, in , , born Michael Rennie (in his career Sunday 22 March trawl through the vaults. Among New Zealand unveiled this glorious highlight) is excellent. Join Tony Earnshaw, artistic the delights is a glimpse of the three-screen (and three-camera) director of Bradford International only surviving 3-panel print of promotional film. Hidden from Film Festival, as he offers a re- Cinerama’s Russian Adventure, a view for almost 40 years, this consideration of the work of tribute to the first Super Cinerama landmark film has been given a Richard Burton (1925-84) using theatre ever built and a new short stunning restoration. many of Burton’s own words and presenting the Arclight Hollywood clips from his films. Cinerama experience of showing How The West Was Won.

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