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Author Topic: Cinema Paradiso Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 01-10-2008 07:32 AM                     Is it true that there is no 35mm print of "Cinema Paradiso" left in the whole wide world? Oh my, i hope not. Happy new year Burleigh  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-10-2008 08:30 AM                     Yes it's true. In the entire world (and several of our closest galaxies) there are no 35mm prints. I know this for I take inventories on this particular title and the entire filmworld reports to me on a daily basis. The last print is now landfill in my backyard. It took me a few years to track 'em all down but FINALLY my evil plan is now complete. Boarhahahahahahahahaha! Oh, and Happy New Year to you too. (When can we stop saying this? Is there a cut-off date where it just seems TOO rediculous? Is May 27th too soon?) <stops channelling Joe>  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-10-2008 08:58 AM                        We played it about a year ago... so Canada has a print. It was mono though..  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 01-10-2008 09:41 AM                        I've seen it revived here and there - it must exist somewhere.  |  IP: Logged Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 01-10-2008 09:46 AM                     Darn i was hoping to show this soon. What was the reason why it sort of dissapeared? Who did you get it from Paul? Well on the greetings theme my wife was nearly yelling at me that the xmas decorations has to come down by the 12th day after christmas day or we get terrible luck. After January no more N Y greetings to me.  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 01-10-2008 11:51 AM                        Its a Miramax film... In Canada Alliance Atlantis distributed it  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-10-2008 11:53 AM                     quote: Burleigh Ibbott Well on the greetings theme my wife was nearly yelling at me that the xmas decorations has to come down by the 12th day after christmas day or we get terrible luck. After January no more N Y greetings to me. A lot of traditional people say you should keep them up for the entire 12 days of Christmas; you should tell her that. Though that, too, has passed by now.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-10-2008 04:48 PM                     I recently ran a very good condition 35mm print here. Strangely, most of the movie has a single line mono soundtrack, but partway into the credits it becomes a stereo SR track.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-10-2008 05:01 PM                     quote: Mike Olpin I recently ran a very good condition 35mm print here. Was it a original release print or the 2002 reissued Director's Cut version?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-10-2008 05:44 PM                       quote: John Wilson The last print is now landfill in my backyard. It took me a few years to track 'em all down but FINALLY my evil plan is now complete. John, you're funny!  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-11-2008 12:15 AM                     John, could you please start collecting all existing prints of Bee Movie and bury them all?  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-11-2008 12:31 AM                     quote: Bill Gabel Was it a original release print or the 2002 reissued Director's Cut version? As it had an SR soundtrack, it obviously wasn't an original release print though it may have been a reprinting of the original plus SR.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-11-2008 05:36 PM                     Probably the 2002 version - it felt like polyester stock. I didnt know it was a recut version though. The SR track was only present during the credits. The rest of the prints had a monaural track.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-12-2008 06:57 PM                     quote: Paul Gordon In Canada Alliance Atlantis distributed it And here I thought Atlantis was sitting on the launch pad in Florida... er is it that other rocket plane??????  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 01-15-2008 04:15 PM                     I wonder if the popularity of the film as the closing performance of many (now ex) cinemas has added to the lack of prints?  |  IP: Logged

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