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Max the Movie Guy rated Name Me Lawand

 Name Me Lawand 8/10

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FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: The print started off battered, but played just fine. However, when Gal and friends left from their rabbit hunt and then the film caught on fire, so we had to wait another eight minutes for the team to sort it out. This has never happened to me before. Though a fraction of the print was now permanently lost, the staff got it fixed and skipped over to the restaurant scene, and the print looked mostly good from that point on, although the third reel’s dialogue track was left in subpar quality. DATE: June 19th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Possibly the same print that was screened at American repertoires over the past ten years. DATE: June 19th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Looks so pretty on a print like this, even if this print experiences a few cuts throughout and a significantly worn second reel. DATE: June 19th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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Max the Movie Guy added 2 items to their collection

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★½ NOTES: Screened as part of the Michel Piccoli season. Original UK release print from Artificial Eye, opening on a zoomed-out rating card, heavily worn out over the years. The last reel suffers the worst of it. DATE: June 17th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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Max the Movie Guy rated Mauvais Sang

 Mauvais Sang 10/10

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Max the Movie Guy rated Pretty Red Dress

 Pretty Red Dress 7/10

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Max the Movie Guy rated Medusa Deluxe

 Medusa Deluxe 4/10

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Max the Movie Guy rated War Pony

 War Pony 6/10

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FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★ NOTES: Looks and sounds heavily worn out, but colours remain perfect. The scenes in which Marcy arrives and Paul tries to gain access to the club took a significant beating, with even more wear and several frames cut. DATE: June 13th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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Max the Movie Guy rated After Hours

 After Hours 10/10

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: An original American print, preceded by the trailer for another Orion picture, Without a Clue, in finer condition than the print posted onto YouTube a few weeks ago. An impressively well-preserved, mostly clean print, although the quality does take a dip at the end of the fourth reel from the point Angela confesses to Mike her history with Tony, leading to the fifth reel looking a little bit more worn than the rest of the print, though not enough to bring my rating down. DATE: June 13th 2023 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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Max the Movie Guy rated Chevalier

 Chevalier 5/10

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FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: Closing film of the festival. Original release Technicolor dye transfer print with its mono soundtrack intact, last screened in 2008, and its condition looks mind-blowing. Most reels bear a slight golden tint and there are some hints of wear, but the rest of this print is near spotless, like it only just came out and screened for several weeks. DATE: June 11th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

1 year, 8 months ago

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FORMAT: 16mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: Both episodes were presented from National Film & TV Archive prints, with a Q&A intro by co-writer Melvyn Bragg, and looked dazzling. William and Dorothy had a line trailing over the right side through its entirety, experienced a few audio distortions and took eight seconds to get part two’s sound to work, while the deranged second episode The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was absolutely spotless, but while I’m not as well-versed in vintage British TV besides cartoons and advertising as I should be, watching both of these on such clear and vivid prints that helped Russell’s vision stand out got me thinking, “television could look like this?” DATE: June 11th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: 1983 re-release timed for Disney’s Diamond Jubilee, preserved by the National Film & TV Archive. Scratchy and has lost a few frames, but fully embraces the practicality of Xerox animation and looks near-perfectly colourful, especially compared to the four-years-older print of Fantasia I’d seen three months back. Presented with digital HOH subtitles. DATE: June 11th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm nitrate CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Original, 1:1 ratio Movietone nitrate print donated to the BFI by the Library of Congress in 1991, presented in its original, uncut form (unless you count several missing frames). Dating back to 1932, this is the oldest film print ever screened to a public UK audience, and it looks shockingly polished for its age. Best of all, after having the nitrate projector’s fire suppression system fixed, it was played in its entirety and nobody was hurt! DATE: June 11th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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Max the Movie Guy rated Service for Ladies

 Service for Ladies 7/10

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★ NOTES: 1990’s 3D left and right eye prints, from the BFI and Piper-Heidsieck’s Classic Film Collection. The prints look almost as well-preserved as some of the Telekinema shorts, bearing a fair amount of wear and a strong golden tint most of the time. Presented with an intermission, due to the 3D prints’ incapability of changing over. DATE: June 10th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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Max the Movie Guy added 5 items to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

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Max the Movie Guy added 5 items to their collection

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Technicolor dye transfer print, one of the older National Film & TV Archive prints. Colours are very slightly faded but look gorgeous, and until “This is my wagon” the print plays mostly smoothly despite quick changeovers, and so the print experiences a few cuts afterwards with red wear visible. This was the last time the print was ever shown publicly, due to shrinkage. DATE: June 10th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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Max the Movie Guy rated The Swimmer

 The Swimmer 10/10

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Max the Movie Guy added 1 item to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★★ NOTES: Printed from a restored 4K master by Criterion, Jet Tone and Block2. An utterly spotless and vivid print, albeit not a very convincing one. It so obviously being a 4K transfer and the black borders surrounding the frame shuffling along with the picture ruined the immersion. DATE: June 9th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank A year and a half later… FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★ NOTES: Now this was more like it. An original release print that takes some damage at one point And starts off unclean, but is unbelievably beautiful as a whole. Ended on a ‘Soundtrack from Virgin Records’ card. DATE: January 25th 2025 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End

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