Nice enough venue. Two screens. I've only been in one of the two houses. Fairly large, with a large screen (by today's standards). I doubt you'll be seeing it projected in 70mm, though. It'll be a giant video projection. Yuck.
This is true. It was projected at what looked to me like 2.2:1, instead of 2.76:1 and I didn't like that. It was squeezed. I've been meaning to find out the reason for this. Also, the projectionist didn't have the timing right for lowering of lights and the traveler opening at the end of the...
MOMI has curtains (real cool ones), and they present all Roadshow films with overture, intermission, entr'acte, and exit music. They showed Lawrence of Arabia the same weekend as West Side Story.
It's really like the Cinémathèque Française of the U.S.
I wish everyone here could have seen it the other weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image. It was part of the latest in their series "See it Big". The theme for August was "70mm". MOMI has a fantastic theatre, and what really blew me away was the sound. Amaaaaazing!!! The directional dialouge...
I only registered to ask the specific question about the digital download of WSS really. I'm not a home theatre enthusuast, so I won't be here for anything else.
That's definitely not a restored print. I just saw a restored print two weekends ago at the Museum of the Moving Image here in New York (also with the newly rediscovered and restored 6 track magnetic sound track) and the green transition between red and blue was there (and by the way the sound...
I know this is anathema to some of you, but, does anyone know if the 1080p digital download from iTunes has the same problems? Or is it the proper, corrected version?
Thanks