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Cannes Journal: The Shining in 4k

Jason Gorber — Wed, 29 May 2019 17:00:30 +0000

For three years running, Warner Bros. has promoted a new restoration as part of the “Cannes Classics” series. These screenings take place in the Debussy, the second largest (and preferred) theater of the palais complex. With 900 seats, it’s a true temple to cinema, with particularly exceptional sound reproduction. The screenings are treated as premieres,...

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Now Streaming: Filmworker

Josh Zyber — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:00:19 +0000

Stanley Kubrick had a reputation as a demanding perfectionist, to put it lightly. Of all the people who worked with him over the decades, perhaps none experienced the true extent of the filmmaker’s obsessive compulsions more fully than Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant, Leon Vitali – the subject of the 2017 documentary Filmworker, now available on...

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‘Barry Lyndon’ Aspect Ratio Controversy Solved

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:00:34 +0000

We home theater fans can be nit-picky types, sometimes obsessing over pixel-by-pixel imperfections in the latest Blu-ray releases. One such controversy erupted at the end of May when Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ was released on the format in an aspect ratio slightly different than what people assumed it should be. After much arguing, a definitive...

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