Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:53:49 -0800
From: Bill Hogan <billhogan1@earthlink.net>
To: TIG <tig@tig.alegria.com>
Subject: [Tig] Ryan's Daughter Sceening In Los Angeles

To all:

For those in the Los Angeles area if you don't have other plans for this Friday
evening I can recommend the following:

Ryan's Daughter at the Motion Picture Academy. 8 pm and only $5.00

This is a Brand New 70 mm Answer Print directly off the original 65 mm
negative. It doesn't get any better than this. The folks from Warner Bros say
that it is really great.

Cinematography Oscar for Freddie Young. Full details at: here

Of course everyone is welcome. There should be plenty of tickets left. There
is free parking in nearby lots. Call the Academy for Parking Lot locations. I
cannot find the info on the web site.

AMPAS details here: here

Regards, Bill Hogan
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Here's the link to your posting:
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Did anyone go to see this?

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Yes, I attended the screening.

I'm going to have to give up watching any new movies or DVDs for a couple weeks after seeing how SPECTACULAR this new print of Ryan's Daughter looked!

I must admit, however, this was the first David Lean film I've seen that I didn't think was very good. But I'm glad I went, nonetheless.

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"Again, a release print contacted straight from the cut camera negative. Does the studio not realise the risk they are taking every time they do this?"

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And the worst part is, I'll bet it will start showing wear not too far down the road. A slight misthread in a projector and an entire reel could be ruined. Even worse is if something had've happened during the printing. Foolish. They definitely should have used that pass through the printer to make a new low grain copy.

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We of course asked if the print was going to be available for us to screen next march at our Widescreen Weekend but this is highly unlikely especially with the sepmag track.

One can only hope if they are making protection IPs they will carry on to produce new release prints.

Dick: Is the reluctance on their end? I'm sure running an interlocked mag track is no big deal for you. I ran an unmarried last week with the print arriving at the start of a 1 short + 5 features-in-a-row day which meant absolutely no time for any sort of even a partial test. And squeezing in the dubber alignment while inspecting/running the prior films (the unmarried was feature #3). But it all ran fine, and from the standpoint of the viewers, just another film, which is just as it should be, although if I may say so myself: Damn, it looked sharp--true anamorphic, straight off the EK, Blue Star lenses--one could imagine watching 70mm.