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THIS IS Friday 7 March Dirs. Merian C. Cooper, Michael Todd, Fred Rickey USA 1952 120 mins (U) The first 3-strip film made. This is the original Cinerama feature The Weekend continues to welcome all which launched the widescreen those fans of large format and widescreen films – era, and is about as fun a piece of , VistaVision, 70mm, Cinerama and IMAX – Americana as you are ever likely and presents an array of past classics from the vaults of to see. More than a technological curio, it's a document of its era. the National Media Museum. A weekend to wallow in the nostalgic best of cinema. (70mm) Sunday 9 March Widescreen Passes £70 / £45 Dir. GB/USA 1996 242 mins (PG) Available from the box office 0870 70 10 200 Kenneth Branagh, , , , Judi Patrons should note that tickets for 2001: A Space Odyssey are priced Dench, at £10 or £7.50 concessions Anyone who has seen this Hamlet in 70mm knows there is no better-looking version in colour. The greatest of Kenneth Branagh’s many achievements so 61 far, he boldly presents the full text of Hamlet with an amazing cast of actors. STAR! (70mm) Saturday 8 March Dir. USA 1968 174 mins (U) Julie Andrews, , , Jenny Agutter Robert Wise followed his box office hits West Side Story and The Sound of Music with Star! Julie 62 63 Andrews returned to the screen as Lawrence and the film charts her rise from the music hall to Broadway stardom. Star! is a spectacular compendium of the best of popular music as well as an excellent rags-to-riches story. THE BIGGER PICTURE: A HISTORY OF CINEMA EXHIBITION With Tony Sloman Saturday 8 March 61. 2001: A Space Odyssey Regular WSW guest Tony Sloman, 62. 63. a member of the Academy of the Widescreen Weekend, gives an introduction to the history of cinema. 41 A5 Booklet_08:Layout 1 28/1/08 15:56 Page 42

WINDJAMMER CINERAMACANA BLADE RUNNER: Saturday 8 March Sunday 9 March THE FINAL CUT Dir. Louis de Rochemont III One of the most popular events Sunday 9 March Norway/USA 1958 120 mins (U) of the Widescreen Weekend and Dir. The 50th anniversary of the a great way to wake up on a USA 2007 117 mins (15) release of this film shot in Sunday morning. Cineramacana , , M. Cinemiracle. Widescreen fans brings together all those little Emmet Walsh, love it. It’s a great cultural bits and pieces that lie around in A quarter of a century after its experience as a group of cadets people’s cupboards or on dusty release, Blade Runner receives its on a training exercise take the SS shelves in archives and which third and ultimate edit by Christian Radich from Oslo, seldom see the light of a director Ridley Scott. A seminal across the Atlantic and on to New projector. classic of the genre. Screening in York. Featuring great and much digital. sought-after music. HONEYMOON Sunday 9 March 70mm DOUBLE BILL: UK PREMIERE Dir. THE SAND PEBBLES GB/Spain 1959 105 mins (adv U) Monday 10 March Saturday 8 March , Ludmilla Tchérina, Dir. Dir. Robert Wise Antonio, Léonide Massine USA 1990 105 mins (PG) USA 1966 196 mins (PG) A newly married couple , Steve McQueen, Richard honeymoon in Spain. Recently An elderly inventor creates Attenborough, Richard Crenna, restored by Charles Doble with Edward, a living being, but dies Candice Bergen, Mako funds from the before he can complete the In between The Sound of Music Foundation, this is not only a rare hands. Edward is left alone – but and Star!, Robert Wise delivered a Michael Powell film but also a with a dazzling array of knives classic war epic set in 1920s rare widescreen classic, filmed in and scissors at the ends of his China. The Sand Pebbles boasts an ARC 120. arms. Peggy, the local Avon lady, Oscar-nominated performance by finds him and brings him back to Steve McQueen’s as engineer Jake CINEMATIC SOUND town. There he becomes a star at Holman, who upsets the status FORMATS topiary and hairdressing. A very quo on board the US gunboat San With Dion Hanson peculiar vision of small town Pablo. Remastered digitally at the Friday 7 March America sees Tim Burton at his highest resolution, this new print A special presentation by imaginative best. Edward is one receives its UK premiere. engineer and cinema technology of cinema’s great sympathetic historian Dion Hanson, who takes characters. UK DIGITAL PREMIERE us on a sound journey through THE GREAT ESCAPE the history of cinema. Dion + BRAINSTORM Friday 7 March previously worked for Dolby Dir. Dir. John Sturges Laboratories and was chairman USA 1983 106 mins (15) USA 1963 172 mins (PG) of the Projected Picture Trust. , Steve McQueen, , With a machine that can put you , James 2001: into someone else’s experiences Donald, Charles Bronson A SPACE ODYSSEY (70mm) then this could be a great fun An immediate classic on its Friday 7 March experience or learning device. But release, this timeless tale of Dir. the military can also see some courage in adversity remains GB/US 1968 141 mins (U) great potential. Partly shot in notable for the emergence of Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, 70mm, this is a great ride and Steve McQueen as a bonafide William Sylvester, Leonard Rossiter action movie from Douglas movie star. Based in part on Paul A film deserving of the Trumbull, the man responsible for Brickhill’s book on the mass description “ground-breaking”, the effects in Kubrick’s 2001. escape from a German prison Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey camp during WWII, the film goes remains one of the all-time THE MAKING OF HOW off into flights of Hollywood classics of science-fiction cinema. THE WEST WAS WON fancy as McQueen heads for the It is presented during WSW in its Saturday 8 March Swiss border on a stole German original Cinerama format in a Behind the scenes with Dave motorcycle. But it’s the sheer restored 70mm print with six- Strohmaier as he reveals more verve and machismo that drives track magnetic stereo sound on from the Cinerama archive. the story forward. the curved Pictureville screen. 42