Murder On The Orient Express 70mm Screenings coming soon...

"Murder on the Orient Express" in the splendour of 7OMM


North America and Canada 70mm release Cinemas
• New York
• Los Angeles

Europe 70mm release Cinemas - 13 cinemas
Denmark, 23.11.2017
• Imperial Bio, Copenhagen

England, 03.11.2017
• Pictureville, Bradford
• Odeon Leicester Sq, London

France
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Germany, 09.11.2017
• Schauburg Cinerama, Karlsruhe
• Savoy, Hamburg,
• Zoo Palast, Berlin
• ASTOR Grand Cinema, Hannover
• Lichtburg, Essen (70mm Preview 8. November)

Italy, 29 November
• Arcadia Cinema, Melzo-Milan

Ireland,
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Holland,
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Norway, 20 November
• Cinemateket, Oslo

Scotland,
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Spain,
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Sweden, 24.11.2017
• Filmstaden Bergakungen, Göteborg
• Rigoletto, Stockholm
• Royal, Malmø


Australia

Brisbane
• Palace Centro

Melbourne, 09.11.2017
• The Sun Theater, Yarraville

Sydney
• The Ritz Cinema, Randwick

 

Saw the preview before Blade Runner. Looks good.

Not sure any theaters near me have 70mm.

 

Hope the list of venues expands considerably to many of the places that screened DUNKIRK. The theater I saw both DUNKIRK and THE HATEFUL EIGHT in 70 at had top-notch presentation standards, and I could really get used to 70mm screenings there becoming a once-in-a-while thing, if not exactly a semi-regular one.

 

How was the thing FILMED? Because for instance, if it was all done by video camera, what is the point of 70 MM? Is that like taking an all-digital Pro Tools recording and pressing to vinyl, because it will somehow sound better due to euphonious distortion? If it was filmed to film, that would be authentic, otherwise it would be a gimmick. Frankly when I first saw digital cinema I reveled in the LACK of judder and flicker and dirt and scratches.

 

The butler did it.

 

No gimmicks here. Director and star Kenneth Branagh shot 65mm, the same as his epic Hamlet. I took the kids to see projected on film during the annual See It Big 70mm series at the Museum Of The Moving Image.

The large film format folks at in70mm.com only track films shot on film.

 

I actually thought this was about the Sidney Lumet film from '74.

 

I don't see the appeal of this, if you've seen the '74. But I guess there might be enough people out there (over 18) who haven't seen it, and have no idea who Christie was.

 

Sorry about that. I just checked, according to IMDB the 1974 version was shot on 35mm and cropped to 1.66:1

 

I remember being mildly excited when reading about this last year and thinking it would be great to see an intelligent 70mm Branagh version of Murder though due to the 1974 masterpiece it would be unnecessary.

The trailer looks like a Ritchie Sherlock Holmes sequel so due to the massive CG action sequences I don't know why they shot 70mm or chose to adapt Orient Express at all.

 

Um, so why is it projected in 70 mm? Or why is it not filmed in 70 mm? I recall there was another movie like that, I'm curious how that circumstance comes about.

 

The negative for 70mm film prints is 65mm wide. You shoot in 65 and print to 70. The extra 5mm for release prints dates back to when large-format films had 6-track magnetic sound - it was originally for the four mag stripes that held the sound tracks.

 

Ha! Me too, I was thinking this must be a new 35mm blowup to 70.

 

Anyone else not s big fan of that film? I always thought it was kind of cheesy. The big ensemble cast up to that time was being reserved for the likes of “The Towering Inferno” and that level of film. Admittedly, at that age, All I really cared about seeing was Jacqueline Bisset.

 

I liked it!

Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

 

The AFI in Silver Spring MD has 70mm, methinks - would go there for this if they were to get it...

 

Loved it. Finney was cartoonish but still the movie was thoroughly entertaining.

 

I just got back from seeing the new one at a regular screening. I saw the 1974 version a very long time ago and only remember bits and pieces and I never read the novel. This new one is "based on" the novel. So, I don't know what changes were made that differ from the novel or the 1974 movie.

Anyway, great cast and some really good acting. Kenneth Branagh was great as Poirot and I thought he did a great job directing, contrary to some of the reviews I read.

They set it up for a sequel with Death On The Nile. So, my guess is that if this movie brings in some money, Death On The Nile will be next.

 

I totally don't get the love for film projection. Give me a 4K, or even 2K digital projection any day of the week.

 

Old cast was better.

 

I saw it last night and really enjoyed it. I never saw the '74 film nor read the book, so it was all new to me.

Seems like ensemble casts sometimes lead to jokey and rather self-congratulatory movies, but this didn't have that tone.

 

Saw it tonight. Enjoyable, old-fashioned entertainment. Peroit's mustache (performed via motion capture by Andy Sirkus) will probably get an Oscar nomination.

 

Saw it and enjoyed it very much, as even did my 16-year-old son. A nice counterpoint to all the bang-bang films flogged at the multiplex. You can nitpick some things about it (some questionable CGI; why only in most scenes in obviously cold weather there's no breath mist) but I'm not sorry I spent money to see (unlike I suspect I will if I go see Justice League in the theater). I knew the solution from years back but that didn't spoil my enjoyment.

John K.

 

I remember the old film, didn't realize they had remade it, let alone in high grade film.
We did have the good fortune of traveling on the train, from Paris late one evening, dinner at midnight, black tie, cigars and cognac in the smoking lounge thereafter, and a quiet dawn looking at the Swiss alps, en route to Venice by mid-day the next. The cars are beautiful, inlaid wood, Lalique glass, it was all from a lost world of civility and elegant machine age technology. I remember being amazed at the quality of the food they cranked out of a tiny galley kitchen.

 

Having watched 35mm projections all my life until my first taste of a digital screening in late 2013 (my theatrical viewing of The Dark Knight Rises in July 2012 may or may not have been digital, so I can't count that), all I can say is the latter looked noticeably better... am I missing something? I understand some directors' refusal to go digital on shooting their movies, but digital projection is a whole other matter entirely... a clean, crisp, vibrant image without the dirt, scratches, and wobbles of film projection, not all new technology is an affront to filmic purity.

And besides, I'm betting those same directors all watch films at home on Blu-Ray (I know for a fact that Chris Nolan does, he said it himself)... isn't that a form of digital presentation, so why the objection to digital in theatrical showings?

Sorry, rant over, we return to the previously scheduled topic, already in progress...