Restored "The Searchers" in 70mm (1 Viewer)

[OliverK]

This might be the most dramatic overreaction post of 2024 so far.

He is right though about the second part if The Searchers gets released in let's say two years.
That is if they feel so strongly about the existing Blu-ray that they refuse to watch it before they die...

 

[SeanSKA]

THE SEARCHERS in New York will be showing in 4K only on the small screen of the Film Forum.. View attachment 224420

See It Big: 70mm! (2024) – Museum of the Moving Image

MoMI’s annual summer tradition returns with a thrilling selection of films screening in 70mm prints, including a new restoration of The Searchers, plus 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Playtime, Tenet, and Far and Away.

movingimage.org

Take the subway or Uber into Astoria, Queens to the Museum of the Moving Image, and they are showing "The Searchers" in 70MM this Summer

 

[Garysb]

Per the Museum of The Moving Image website.

Notes about the restoration from Warner Bros.: The Searchers was filmed in VistaVision and released in 1.85. WB’s Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original 8 perf 35mm VistaVision camera negative in 13K with all restoration work completed in 6.5K. The 70mm film print was created at Fotokem by filming out a new 65mm negative. WB’s Post Production Creative Services restored the original mono audio mix. Inventure Studios created the DTS-encoded deliverable of the restored audio to playback flawlessly with the 70mm film print. The Film Foundation has approved this newly restored version.

 

[JPCinema]

Per the Museum of The Moving Image website.

Notes about the restoration from Warner Bros.: The Searchers was filmed in VistaVision and released in 1.85. WB’s Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original 8 perf 35mm VistaVision camera negative in 13K with all restoration work completed in 6.5K. The 70mm film print was created at Fotokem by filming out a new 65mm negative. WB’s Post Production Creative Services restored the original mono audio mix. Inventure Studios created the DTS-encoded deliverable of the restored audio to playback flawlessly with the 70mm film print. The Film Foundation has approved this newly restored version.

Great!!. I'll be there. Being a SAG-AFTRA member helps.

 

[Henry Gondorff]

For those in the Boston area, The Somerville Theater will be showing "The Searchers" on September 19th and 20th. Somerville usually mentions on their calendar if they are showing film or digital of a movie. "The Searchers" listings doesn't say which it is showing. On ticket order page it mentions 70MM EVENING so I assume its the 70MM print.

The Searchers - in 70mm - Somerville Theatre

THE SEARCHERS – in 70mm In this revered Western, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns home to Texas after the Civil War. When members of his brother’s family are killed or abducted by Comanches, he vows to track down his surviving relatives and bring them home. Eventually, Edwards gets word that...

www.somervilletheatre.com

Here’s more from The Brattle about this special event:
This landmark Technicolor VistaVision widescreen western from John Ford is best seen as big as possible… so we’re pleased to partner with our friends at the Somerville to show this on their giant screen!

With an intro from author Foster Hirsch in celebration of his new book, Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties.

The Somerville website usually denotes 70mm film if that is the mode of presentation and there is no such indication on their site. I have no definite confirmation but it seems it will be the 4K DCP, which to me is preferable.
The 4K DCP of "North By Northwest" is running this Sunday at the Cabot in Beverly and on August 11 at the Brattle. I'm much more interested in seeing one of these showings.

 

[cadavra]

Warner is doing nothing to promote this restoration.

Well, all I know is that the American Cinematheque had four screenings of the 70 less than two weeks after its premiere at the TCM Festival, and all four sold out almost immediately with no promotion other than by the AC itself. Somehow nearly 2,000 people found it.

 

[JPCinema]

I saw The Searchers in 70mm tonight. I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed with the print.

 

[Denham]

"Hey Billy!! You know how excited you were for Kino's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers two months ago?"

If this had been bowling people over this year, I'm pretty sure the rejoicing would have been deafening by this point.

 

[ScottHM]

I saw The Searchers in 70mm tonight. I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed with the print.

In what way?
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[Robert Harris]

In what way?
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Same question. I’ve been told the 70 prints are lovely, from a beautifully produced digital 65mm neg.

 

[JPCinema]

In what way?
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Flickering throughout the first reel. Color seemed a bit desaturated, lots of brown. All day for night scenes were so dark it was impossible to see. There were quite a few scratches in sections which for a new print was alarming. The people that were sitting around me, were commenting about those issues as well.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Sounds like projection issues.

 

[JPCinema]

Sounds like projection issues.

I think so too. I talked with the person that introduced the film and he was surprised by the issues I mentioned previously. I told him it could be the projector. There was definitely a lack of brightness throughout the film.

 

[JPCinema]

I was going to go and see it again tomorrow night but I am going to pass. I hope the Museum of the Moving Image fixes the 70mm projection,

 

[Robert Harris]

I was going to go and see it again tomorrow night but I am going to pass. I hope the Museum of the Moving Image fixes the 70mm projection,

Is there a problem?

 

[JPCinema]

Is there a problem?

I think it’s the projector and the light. I talked with the gentleman who introduced the film, and he agreed something was “off”. The day for night scenes were so dark I could make out who was on screen. I also asked him about the numerous scratches throughout the film and one particularly bad one and asked him if this was the only print which is why it was damaged. He said no because the film had just been shown in Bologna.

 

[Into The Archives]

There are at least two 70mm prints, as it played in Bologna and Portland in 70mm on the same day......

 

[Robert Harris]

There are at least two 70mm prints, as it played in Bologna and Portland in 70mm on the same day......

Very few people know (or care to know) how to run film. Less so 70mm.

 

[haineshisway]

I have now heard way too many times about desaturated color and brown. WAY too many times. And it's alarming to say the least. Hopefully, the 4K/Blu-ray will not look desaturated and brown because of it does this thread will be 100 pages long, all posts by me

 

[Robert Harris]

I have now heard way too many times about desaturated color and brown. WAY too many times. And it's alarming to say the least. Hopefully, the 4K/Blu-ray will not look desaturated and brown because of it does this thread will be 100 pages long, all posts by me

Sounds like not enough illumination.

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