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All of these are common criticisms of the prequels by people who love the originals, and for me, I’ve always felt that these were core elements of the Star Wars franchise from the beginning. I think the memories people have of the original films sometime exceed the reality of what the films...

They still mostly send hard drives from what I understand, and then when those files are loaded from the drives onto the projector’s server, that’s supposed to connect to the internet and verify security and all that jazz. Smaller packages than 35mm film prints at least :)

This anniversary showing was booked relatively close to its showings, so it may be that this was more or less the number of available screens given prior contractual obligations the theaters already had on the books. There’s also a cost to sending a DCP out to each theater and the studio might...

It may not have been on a ton of screens, but at least by me, it tended to wind up on good screens. Most repertory films that are programmed generally (as opposed to one-off Fathom Events) get thrown onto the worst screens in the multiplex in my experience, but I got to see Jedi on the largest...

I caught it on Friday afternoon and had a blast. The DCP was based on the same master used for the 4K UHD release. I think I might have sat a little too close and know a little too much about digital mastering because I could spot how the grain was managed to give the movie a more uniform look...

I don’t know how many times I’ll be able to get out but I let all my babysitting-helping relatives know that it was a non-negotiable fact of life I was leaving the house to see this at least once! :)