"North By Northwest" in 70mm at the Tribeca Festival, New York, US | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter |
| Written by: From the Tribeca Festival Program | Date: 01.05.2024 |
 DATE: Wednesday , June 12, 2024TIME: 5.30 PM, 136 min LOCATION: Village East by Angelika, New York, US "North by Northwest" 70mm Restoration (United States). Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers. While leaving New York’s Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name “George Kaplan” is paged–starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him–and by police who suspect him of murder. "North by Northwest" (1959) was filmed in VistaVision and released in 1,85:1. Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original 8-perf 35mm VistaVision camera negative in 13k with all restoration work completed in 6.5k, Sheri Eisenberg, Colorist. The 70mm film print was created at Fotokem by filming out a new 65mm negative. Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services created a 5.1 audio mix from the original mono stems with Doug Mountain, Sound Mixer. Inventure Studios created the DTS encoded deliverable of the restored audio to playback flawlessly with the 70mm film print. This newly restored version has been approved by the Film Foundation. | More in 70mm reading: in70mm.com's page about VistaVision “North By Northwest”: The 70mm Presentations "The Searchers" Restored by Warner Brothers and Released in 70mm 70mm Blow Up List 2024 - by in70mm.com "The Negative" - VistaVision Strikes Back The Making of ‘Ellston Bay’ Horizontal VistaVision Projector Berg der Kinoträume: Paramounts VistaVision “In VistaVision, Technicolor and Perspecta sound” 6-7 Juni 2009 Restoration of "Vertigo" Theo Gluck - A Master Class in Film Restoration Die Cinerama-Archäologen The Cinerama Archaeologists in70mm.com's Library Presented on the big screen in 7OMM Peripheral Vision, Scopes, Dimensions and Panoramas |
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 Danish premiere of "North by Northwest" 16. January 1961 (running until 19. February 1961) at the World Cinema in Copenhagen. Premiere advertisements even mention VistaVision."North by Northwest" is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The screenplay was by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". "North by Northwest" is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle microfilm, which contains government secrets, out of the country. This is one of several Hitchcock films that feature a music score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass, and was the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits. "North by Northwest" is listed among the canonical Hitchcock films of the 1950s and is often listed among the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". After its first screening, reviewers for The New Yorker and The New York Times immediately hailed it as a masterpiece of comedic, sophisticated self-parody. | |
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