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Bradford International Film Festival · 2010

Bradford International Film Festival 2010

Widescreen Weekend

Films taking it to the 70mm max.

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11 films · 2 reviews

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2010

After the failure of USS Discovery’s mission, a joint American/Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter.

(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Peter Hyams; Writer: Arthur C. Clarke, Peter Hyams; Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Dana Elcar, Taliesin Jaffe, James McEachin, Mary Jo Deschanel, Elya Baskin, Saveli Kramarov, Oleg Rudnik, Natasha Shneider)

Showing in 70mm

The Alamo

Story of a small group of US soldiers who took on a massive Mexican force.

(Country: US; Year: 1960; Director: John Wayne; Writer: James Edward Grant; Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Ken Curtis, Carlos Arruza, Jester Hairston, Veda Ann Borg, John Dierkes, Denver Pyle)

Showing in 35mm to mark the film's 50th anniversary

Battle Of The Bulge

A look at tank warfare on both sides in the last months of the Second World War.

(Country: US; Year: 1965; Director: Ken Annakin; Writer: Philip Yordan, Milton Sperling, John Melson; Stars: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, George Montgomery, Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, Barbara Werle, Charles Bronson, Hans Christian Blech, Werner Peters, James MacArthur, Karl-Otto Alberty, Telly Savalas, Steve Rowland)

The Blue Lagoon

Shipwrecked kids fall in love.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Randal Kleiser; Writer: Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Douglas Day Stewart; Stars: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Elva Josephson, Glenn Kohan, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio, Jeffrey Kleiser, Bradley Pryce, Chad Timmerman, Gert Jacoby, Alex Hamilton, Richard Evanson)

Showing in 70mm with six-track stereo

Cineramacana

The unique element of the Widescreen Weekend, Cineramacana is now in its 14th year and has brought some remarkable short films and clips rarely seen outside their domestic cinemas or expos.

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Die Hard

Review preview for Die Hard

A cool, classic and creative action picture.

Gator MacReady · 5 out of 5
Bruce Willis is a lone cop in an office skyscraper, taken over by terrorists.

(Country: US; Year: 1988; Director: John McTiernan; Writer: Jeb Stuart, Steven E DeSouza, based on Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp; Stars: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Gudonov, Reginald Veljohnson, William Atherton)

Showing in 70mm

The Hunt For Red October

Cold War thriller about a nuclear submarine.

(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: John McTiernan; Writer: Tom Clancy, Larry Ferguson, Donald Stewart; Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland, Richard Jordan, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeffrey Jones, Timothy Carhart, Larry Ferguson, Fred Dalton Thompson)

Showing in 70mm

Manhattan

Review preview for Manhattan

Allen's finest screenplay to date, filled with expostulating characters with relationship difficulties and hilarious interludes about the human condition.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5
Woody Allen falls for his best friend's mistress, but is he really more in love with New York itself?

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Woody Allen; Writer: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman; Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne Hoffman, Karen Ludwig, Michael O'Donoghue, Victor Truro, Tisa Farrow, Helen Hanft)

Showing in 35mm

Quest For Fire (La guerre du feu)

A group of prehistoric people go on the hunt for a new source of fire.

(Country: Canada, France, US; Year: 1981; Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud; Writer: Gérard Brach, JH Rosny Sr; Stars: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong, Gary Schwartz, Naseer El-Kadi, Franck-Olivier Bonnet, Jean-Michel Kindt, Kurt Schiegl, Brian Gill, Terry Fitt, Bibi Caspari, Peter Elliott, Michelle Leduc, Robert Lavoie)

Showing in 70mm, with six-track Dolby Stereo magnetic sound

This Is Cinerama

The first three-strip film ever made.

(Country: US; Year: 1952; Director: Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Todd Jr.; Stars: Lowell Thomas)

Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich

Join a square-rigger on its 17,000 mile journey.

(Country: US; Year: 1958; Director: Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III; Writer: A.J. Villiers, James L. Shute; Stars: Bjørn Amvik, Arne Andersen, Per Antonsen, Niels Arntsen, Svein Aske, Trygve Bendiksen, Tore Bilet, Sigurd Borgen, Even Børresen, Boston Pops Orchestra, Pau Casals, Jan Christiansen, Peer Dahl, Thor Dalelv, Wilbur De Paris)

European premiere of the digitally restored print