Eric Maddison fsf

I was lucky enough to attend that screening at the academy, and I must say that it looks absolutely amazing! I have never seen Lawrence in 70mm, but I have seen "Far and away" "Hamlet" and the "Dark knight" in 70mm or IMAX. I am a convinced that the technology we have nowadays can "find" information in the original source material that was not even possible to see in the answer print in 1962. This film is 50 years old so yes it's grainy at times, in todays standard similar to 35mm. Before the movie Crover Crisp (exec. producer Film restoration, Sony pictures) showed untreated clips from the movie letting you know the dire state of the original negative. And the incredible work they have put in to remove scratches and dirt but still not affecting the grain structure. Allegedly it took over a year to do the whole restoration. It was actually scanned at 8K and then down converted to 4K for cleanup and restoration. I'm very excited about 4K projection and if they can just up the light levels we finally have a projection system that is truly invisible and wont degrade the source in any way! But more then just image quality it's just such a masterpiece! I so wish more filmmakers would be brave enough to compose shots like this and play scenes in wide master shots instead of just talking heads. Slightly off topic but from all talk from Nolan about shooting in IMAX I'm not that impressed with his choice of composition. It's so cutty and shallow focus it ends up like a mess of motion blur. It is amazing that a 50 year old move looks this good! And I'm sure that if Sir David Lean and Freddie Young would have attended they would have had tears in there eyes... /Eric