EddieMoney

Just noticed that Alamo is playing "Fast Times" this weekend!

Giles

Not to toot my own horn but quite a few theaters in and around the DC metro area show "older" movies. The AFI, E street, Bow Tie Reston, Cinemark Fairfax Corner, the Angelika, the Drafthouse, the National Theater on select Mondays. It's great that the studios are transferring their popular titles to DCP

bluetoast

Plus the AFI gets them in 35 or 70 mm for the most part. Even E Street still got 35 mm prints of Miyazaki movies last year.

hanshotfirst1138

I believe it was Paramount who finally stopped making prints altogether, I'm sure other studios will follow shortly.

Giles

that maybe the case, but that doesn't stop them from mastering DCP's for theaters that can't present 35mm films.

UAIOE

I'd probably say "Back to the Future 2" as I saw the first back 2010, and I saw 3 in the theater when it came out.

Others:
From Russia With Love
Commando
Total Recall
Robocop
Terminator 1 &2
Police Story 1&2 (saw 3 when it was released as "Supercop")

hanshotfirst1138

Maybe, but it's still sad to see 35mm go . But yes, studios certainly do seem to be making an effort to make DCPs of a fair variety of films, so that's definitely good news, and the significantly cheaper distribution probably means they'll go wider too, and that's certainly hard to argue with.

joliom

In 2011 I went to see The Goonies at a local theater and they actually had the Blu-ray and "play" logos flash on the screen before it started. So it does get worse than DCP presentations.

Giles

the Angelika here in Virginia is pretty good in when to advertise what people are seeing - but they didn't do that very well, when they did a midnight showing of 'The Dark Crystal' - there's a new DCP, but what they showed was a bluray - that really irked me. Close ups looked good, but anything remotely dark, looked milky gray ... yuck.

ntnon

Original ending? Do you mean a final shot of Slimer, or were there points when early cuts found their way into theaters..? I remember reading that the whole film could/should have been - and was largely even filmed - different, but I don't know about a different ending..

My Other Self

The original ending that was shot (and is in the novelization) has the Ghostbusters being presented with a Key to the City on Liberty Island. Part of this scene is the final bit in the end credits montage, which then pans to Slimer flying around the Statue of Liberty.

The ending I'm referring to is Slimer coming at the screen, the same way the first Ghostbusters ended. This was changed on all subsequent prints - VHS, Beta, DVD, LD and TV. I don't remember it given my age, but an original 35MM print that has floated around the country when theaters have shown it contain it.

The new BD will have deleted scenes, but there was really so many sequences cut I can't envision all of them being on there. They can't even put all of the GB1 ones out there on the new 30th anniversary disc (which is still missing a deleted scene from the Criterion LD and two others that have never surfaced, but stills exist of).

Hazel Motes

Days of Heaven
McCabe & Mrs Miller.
2001 : A Space Odyssey
Aguirre The Wrath of God
Nosferatu the Vampyre
The Third Man
The Night of The Hunter
Suspiria
The Proposition
The Hired Hand
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Gummo
There Will Be Blood
The Qatsi Trilogy
Born to Kill

rocket1312

I went to college in Rochester, NY, home of the George Eastman House. They have one of the largest film print collections in the world and basically all they show is classic material. Due to lack of funds/interest in classics or world cinema at the time I never took advantage the way I should. I did take a Kurosawa class and we would have screenings every week in their theater. At the very least I remember seeing The Hidden Fortress, Rashomon and The Bad Sleep Well. However, I was going through a really tough time in my life and ended up dropping the class and leaving school. It pains me now to think of everything I missed out on both in that class and at the Eastman House in general. Sometimes I look at the Eastman House schedule and just imagine all the hours and money I would spend there today.

mrhan

I saw Enter the Dragon @ Camera 3 in downtown San Jose a few years ago and it was awesome seeing Bruce kick ass on the big screen again. I haven't seen it this way since the 70's. It's an experience altogether different from just popping in the BD at home.

My Other Self

Ernie Hudson was interviewed at the Niagara Falls Comic Con last weekend and says that the Ghostbusters theatrical re-release on August 29th will have "added scenes". Not sure what this means (or if it will actually happen), but there's never been an extended version of the film before.

hanshotfirst1138

I'm not against DCPs, though many of the ones I've seen of older films do tend to have been disappointing. I would just like to make sure that if the are the future, as the obviously are, that they are held to a certain standard. I'm sure there are plenty of crappy 35mm prints out there too, Lord knows. Again, this might have to do with the cinema in which I saw them too.

One of the things which I do think is a bit of a problem with Digital Cinema is that they obviously aren't go to make DCPs of a lot of things, and if they aren't going to make prints either, that leaves home video projected on a big screen as what's left to do. I went to a college town art house where they were showing and SD DVD, and he said that they had to of course clear the rights to what they showed, and sort of got what they got from the studio-DCP, DVD, whatever.

IDrinkWater

I am about an hour away from the AFI Silver, one of the best repertory houses in the world. I saw quite a few older films there, such as:

North by Northwest
Labyrinth
It's a Wonderful Life
The Room
2001: A Space Odyssey (in 70mm)
Rear Window
Lawrence of Arabia (in 4K DCP)

All in 35mm except where noted.

Though I would love to see these films I have yet to see on the big screen, or want to see again.

Pulp Fiction - The recent 4K restoration is great, but the Blu-ray has some encoding issues. I would've loved to see an original mint 35mm print, or a 4K DCP without the Blu-ray issues.

Baraka - If I see this on the big screen, it has to be in 70mm, no exceptions, not even a DCP.

Jurassic Park didn't satisfy me in IMAX 3D. An original 35mm DTS print should cure me. Yes I am odd preferring 35mm over IMAX in this case.

Same goes for The Lion King in its 3D reissue. Lame 7.1 mix, the original Dolby SRD should do.

amplified

The Shining

JimRochester

That was one of those movies that I actually saw in the theater and it never grabbed me. I didn't dislike the movie, I just never saw why all the for it.

bluetoast

It'll be at the AfI Silver along with that random documentary yhis dummer. But that's a hike from Minnesota.

Echos Myron

Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo would be awesome on the big screen!

hanshotfirst1138

Well how nice for you .

So would Quentin Tarantino, have you heard about his Cannes rant?

Not at all.


Got the chance to see Jaws on the big screen, nice DCP. Since I'll never see it in 35mm, this'll have to do. It was a beautiful master, I assume the one struck for the Blu?

I'd give pretty much anything to see the OOT Star Wars movies on the big screen. I don't see them ever getting DCPs, and even if any place still projected 35mm, Lucas has probably destroyed every print he could. I am getting to see a 35mm print of CE3K in a few days, and hopefully Seven Samurai later on, which I hugely excited about. I would've killed to have see a local cinema's 35mm screening of The Wizard of Oz, but couldn't find anyone willing to go and it was a part of town I'd rather not attend by myself. I'd have loved to have even seen the DCP at my local AMC, but sadly it was the IMAX 3-D version, and I have no interest in 3-D. I'm still mad at myself for not seeing the IMAX digital Raiders encode. I could've too, I was just an idiot. Again, I'll never get to see it in 35mm, so it'd have been the best I could've gotten.

TimeSkip

I just missed being able to see The Matrix in theaters as it was a little after that I could go to "R" rated movies so I'd love to see that spectacular film on the big screen.

hanshotfirst1138

I think there is a DCP of The Matrix kicking around somewhere, my local AMC showed it and I can't imagine it was a film print.

I'd love to see The Third Man on the big screen.

bluetoast

Come to the AFI Silver in August. They're showing Star Wars (New Hope) in 35 mm. It's the special edition though as per Lucasfilm's mandates or whatever.