Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Bradford >> 2014 >> Widescreen Weekend
The films will be complemented by a number of additional events. There will also be a celebration of widescreen shorts filmed at film schools across the UK.
View other Bradford International Film Festival Films by strand: Bradford After Dark, Family Programme: Chaplin's Tramp, Lifetime Achievement Award: Brian Cox, Official Selection, Official Selection - Shorts, The Crime Films of Yoshitarō Nomura
West Side Story and White Christmas
The Big Blue (Le grand bleu)
(Country: France, US, Italy; Year: 1988; Director: Luc Besson; Writer: Luc Besson, Luc Besson, Robert Garland, Marilyn Goldin, Jacques Mayol, Marc Perrier; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto, Jean Bouise, Marc Duret, Griffin Dunne, Andréas Voutsinas, Valentina Vargas, Kimberly Beck, Patrick Fontana, Alessandra Vazzoler, Geoffrey Carey, Bruce Guerre-Berthelot)
Original Format 35mm CinemaScope Anamorphic 2.35:1, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Flat Screen
Two of the best ‘free’ divers in the world are set to compete against each other at the world championships.
Big Trouble In Little China
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: John Carpenter; Writer: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter; Stars: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, James Pax, Suzee Pai, Chao Li Chi, Jeff Imada, Rummel Mor, Craig Ng)
Original Format 35mm Panavision Anamorphic 2.35:1, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Flat Screen
A trucker gets drawn into an ancient mystical battle in Chinatown.
City Heat
(Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Richard Benjamin; Writer: Blake Edwards, Blake Edwards, Joseph Stinson; Stars: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco, William Sanderson, Nicholas Worth, Robert Davi, Jude Farese, John Hancock, Jack Thibeau, Gerald S. O'Loughlin)
Original Format 35mm 1.85:1, Projection Format 70mm 1.85:1 Flat Screen
Former crime fighting partners reluctantly get back together to investigate a murder.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Stanley Kramer; Writer: William Rose, Tania Rose; Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue)
Original Format Ultra Panavison 70 (Super-Cinerama), Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Curved Screen
Tale of honest, decent people turning into crazed fanatics out to steal some money and intent on destroying everything in their paths to get it.
Remembering Widescreen
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Wolfram Hannemann; Writer: Wolfram Hannemann; Stars: Brian Allsopp, Christopher Allsopp, Bruce Campbell, Tony Earnshaw, Christopher Frayling, Sheldon Hall, David Hamilton, Wolfram Hannemann, Bill Lawrence, Duncan McGregor, Barry Quinton, Paul Rayton, Ulrich Rostek, Paul Sherman, Anthony Sloman)
Original Format HDCAM (1080p/25), Projection Format DCP 2.39:1
Documentary about Bradford's Widescreen Weekend.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day and The Big Blue
Search For Paradise
(Country: US; Year: 1957; Director: Otto Lang; Writer: Prosper Buranelli, Otto Lang, Lowell Thomas; Stars: James S Parker, Lowell Thomas, Christopher Young)
Original format 3-strip Cinerama Projection format 2K Digital curved screen
Travelogue.
Seven Wonders Of The World
(Country: US; Year: 1956; Director: Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson; Writer: Prosper Buranelli, WP Lipscomb; Stars: Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz, Claude Dauphin)
Original format 3-strip Cinerama, Projection format 2K Digital curved screen
Farflung cinerama adventure.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2: Judgment Day Special Edition, Terminator 2, T2, Terminator 2 Judgment Day)
(Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: James Cameron; Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher; Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, S Epatha Merkerson, Castulo Guerra, Danny Cooksey, Jenette Goldstein, Xander Berkeley)
A Terminator robot comes back in time to protect a boy from another, more advanced killer robot.
Original Format Super 35 2.35:1, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Flat Screen
The Way We Were
(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: Sydney Pollack; Writer: Arthur Laurents, Francis Ford Coppola, David Rayfiel, Dalton Trumbo; Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors, Allyn Ann McLerie, Murray Hamilton, Herb Edelman, Diana Ewing, Sally Kirkland, Marcia Mae Jones, Don Keefer, George Gaynes, Eric Boles)
Original Format 35mm Panavision Anamorphic 2.35:1, Projection Format DCP 4K 2.39:1 Flat Screen
A couple find their differing political viewpoints threaten their relationship.
West Side Story
(Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise; Writer: Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Ernest Lehman, William Shakespeare; Stars: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente)
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
Original Format Super Panavision 70, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Curved Screen
White Christmas
(Country: US; Year: 1954; Director: Michael Curtiz; Writer: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama; Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes, John Brascia, Anne Whitfield), Trailer
Two former soldiers turned performers accidentally find themselves shacked up for Christmas in a lodge owned by their former commander.
Original Format 35mm Horizontal VistaVision, Projection Format DCP 2K 1.85:1 Flat Screen
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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