Check out the Fandango Featurette (YouTube) on this Tarantino Western:
Friday, November 27, 2015
Quentin Tarantino Roadshow on 70mm Film
The famed director has produced a film, The Hateful Eight, entirely on actual silver gelatin film. Filmed on 65mm celluloid and to be shown in 70mm, the movie uses the 2.76:1 format of a long disused Ultra-Panavision lens retrofitted to modern cameras. The width is twice as wide as the usual movie and the widest format for motion pictures. The colours and grain on this ultra-wide format are uniquely those of film. The roadshow will be featured in only a few hundred movie houses in the States starting Christmas Day. Another long lost tradition, the roadshow itself is a swank event with extra footage, an intermission and well dressed movie goers - a real social event around film.
