Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2016
To celebrate the festival's 70th edition, they are screening this series of films in their original 70mm format.
4 films · 3 reviews
The long wordless opening of 2001 remains one of the most beautiful sequences on film.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 1968; Director: Stanley Kubrick; Writer: Stanley Kubrick. Based on the book by Arthur C Clarke; Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Douglas Rain)
(Country: Soviet Union, Japan; Year: 1975; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Writer: Vladimir Arsenyev, Akira Kurosawa, Yuri Nagibin; Stars: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Mikhail Bychkov, Sovetbek Dzhumadylov, B. Khorulev, Nikolai Volkov)
What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.
(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)
There are moments of brilliance but also points where Tati simply lays on everything too thick.
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1967; Director: Jacques Tati; Writer: Art Buchwald, Jacques Lagrange, Jacques Tati; Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle, Valérie Camille, Erika Dentzler, Nicole Ray, Yvette Ducreux, Nathalie Jem)
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