‘URGENT PUBLISH TODAY’ 70mm LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

posted by Ret. AKC (NAC) CCC Bob Jensen, Manteno, Illinois on December 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – LAWRENCE OF ARABIA in 70mm. A rare and epic experience! This is picture quality you have to see to believe. It will be in its original 70mm format, offering audiences the unique oppotunity to experience the breathtaking clarity and dramatic impact that have made this format such a visually spectacular widescreen process.

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS

A Mighty Spectacle Picture of Action And Adventure

An Epic Masterpiece

Worth watching just to hear the music!

The brand new TIFF Bell Lightbox, home of the Toronto International Film Festival just opened September 12, 2010. Of the 5 Cinemas, Cinema 1 which seats 549 and can show 70mm films.

They say it’s the “only 70mm screening facility in Canada” I take that to mean they plan to be screening 70mm pretty much all the time. Anyone know if they plan to continue this plan?

TIFF BELL LIGHBOX
Reitman Square
150 King Street West
Tronto, Ontario
416.968.3456

SCREENING TIMES:

EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT BEGINS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30 – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, EVERYDAY AT 1:00 PM.

STICK AROUND ANY OF THE DAYS AND YOU CAN STILL SEE A 70mm PRINT OF “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY” LATER IN THE DAY IN THE SAME THEATER!

$15.00 Regular
$12.00 Regular Student/Senior
$ 9.00 Children & Youth

OSCARS:

BEST PICTURE

BEST DIRECTOR—SIR DAVID LEAN

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, COLOR—FREDDIE YOUNG

BEST MUSIC SCORE – SUBSTANTIALLY ORIGINAL—MAURICE JARRE

BEST FILM EDITING
BEST ART DIRECTION-SET DECORATION, COLOR
BEST SOUND

OSCAR NOMINATIONS:

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE—PETER O'TOOLE

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE—OMAR SHARIF

BEST WRITING, SCREEPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM—ROBERT BOLT & MICHAEL WILSON

ALSO STARING:

ANTHONY QUINN
ALEC GUINNESS
ARTHUR KENNEDY
JOSE FERRER
JACK HAWKINS
CLAUDE RAINS
ANTHONY QUAYLE

SIR DAVID LEAN—MOTORCYCLIST BY SUEZ CANAL

THE GREATEST OF ALL GREAT SPRAWLING EPICS, Sir David Lean’s Academy Award-winning account of British officer T.E. Lawrence’s efforts to unify the nomadic desert tribes against the Ottoman Turks during World War I is equal parts war film and existential romance, as the arid expanses of the desert draw the British adventurer into its beckoning, soul, soul-stirring emptiness. OVERLAID WITH MAURICE JARRE’S UNFORGETTABLE SCORE, an inordinately rich cast-Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, and of course Peter O'Toole, who became an instant star as the eccentric and inscrutable Lawrence-and exquisite renderings of the vast, shimmerings sands by Freddie Young’s magnificent cinematography, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is as big as larger-than-life cinema gets.

Distributed by Columbia Pictures

World Premiere, Odeon Leicester Square, London, December 9, 1962.

Canada Premiere, January 30, 1963, WHAT CITY AND THEATER??

USA Premiere, New York, December 16, 1962, WHAT THEATER?

Super Panavision 70
Aspect ratio 2.20:1
Technicolor
70mm 6-Track (RCA Sound Recording)
Runtime 222 min (premiere version) 210 min (original version)

1989 RESTORATION

PRODUCER—ROBERT A. HARRIS—RECONSTRUCTION & RESTORATION
PRODUCER—JIM PAITE—RESTORATION

SPECIAL THANKS:

JON DAVISON
SIR DAVID LEAN
MARTIN SCORSEESE
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Metrocolor(prints by)(1989 restoration)(as Metrocolor Laboratories) Techniccolor,UK
DTS 70mm (70mm restored version)
Runtime USA: 227 min (restored roadshow version)

PLEASE REPORT ON:

SCREEN SIZE

IF IT’S CURVED OR FLAT

PROJECTION

SOUND

FILM QUALITY

SHOWMANSHIP

THANKS!

Why can’t cities larger than Toronto, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Phiadelphia do what Toronto is doing with 70mm?

Bob Jensen, Manteno, Illinois

Theaters in this post

• TIFF Bell Lightbox