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Bradford International Film Festival · 2014

Bradford International Film Festival 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.

Programme

11 films · 4 reviews

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The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu)

Review preview for The Big Blue

The Big Blue is pure cinéma du look.

Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
Two of the best ‘free’ divers in the world are set to compete against each other at the world championships.

(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

Big Trouble In Little China

A trucker gets drawn into an ancient mystical battle in Chinatown.

(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

City Heat

Former crime fighting partners reluctantly get back together to investigate a murder.

(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

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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.

(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

Remembering Widescreen

Documentary about Bradford's Widescreen Weekend.

(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

Search For Paradise

Travelogue.

(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

Seven Wonders Of The World

Farflung cinerama adventure.

(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

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2: Judgment Day Special Edition, Terminator 2, T2, Terminator 2 Judgment Day)

Review preview for Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2 is a wonderful sequel, dramatically satisfying and a fine entertainment.

Scott Macdonald · 4 out of 5
A Terminator robot comes back in time to protect a boy from another, more advanced killer robot.

(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)

Original Format Super 35 2.35:1, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Flat Screen

The Way We Were

A couple find their differing political viewpoints threaten their relationship.

(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

West Side Story

Review preview for West Side Story

It still does things that surprise.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.

(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)

Original Format Super Panavision 70, Projection Format 70mm 2.20:1 Curved Screen

White Christmas

Review preview for White Christmas

Fairly formulaic stuff, but delivered with real charm and verve.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two former soldiers turned performers accidentally find themselves shacked up for Christmas in a lodge owned by their former commander.

(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

Original Format 35mm Horizontal VistaVision, Projection Format DCP 2K 1.85:1 Flat Screen