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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

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

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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Max the Movie Guy added 9 items to Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era list

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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: Newly produced by WB and YCM from an archival internegative, featuring a tremendous 4-track soundtrack and beautiful colour that helps every trace of red stand out as far as it was intended. DATE: June 9th 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: 70mm CONDITION: ★★★★★ NOTES: Original release print kept locked away in the BFI’s archive since 1992, it looks absolutely breathtaking, and I can even understand why the only 70mm they chose to show was a major motion picture from the master of baffling choices. The projectionist switched over to the third reel four seconds late so we were treated to an end reel, and the sound of chatter rewinding and a beep was music to my ears. Sadly, there were a few instances in which the audio was muffled for one or two seconds, but overrun the film until the end of the reel at the worst possible time: the race scene. DATE: June 9th 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: BBC transmission print from 1990, acquired by the BFI in 2004. Rarely screened over the years, and it shows astonishingly. Every grain of grass is captured in crystal clear detail. Successfully presented with digitally projected HOH subtitles, and introduced with an essay on preservation of African cinema by writer Imruh Bakari. DATE: June 8th 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: ★★★★★ NOTES: Screened as part of the BFI Film on Film Festival, in which all prints this week were presented, with the world premiere of Mark Jenkin’s A Dog Called Discord. They were preparing to open this festival on an original release nitrate print dating back 78 years, but the nitrate projector had already encountered a fault with the fire suppression system which could have put the entire auditorium at risk and the print had to wait another while. Thankfully, they had already transferred a different print onto a new, unrestored National Archive print, and it was the next best thing. Despite sound cutting out at the end of each reel, the print they worked from looked impressive, and judging this print from its source I have to grade it ★★★★½. DATE: June 8th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank Three months later… FORMAT: 35mm nitrate CONDITION: ★★★ NOTES: Original UK release nitrate print, finally screened to great success in a September heatwave. Not as in good condition as the source print for the backup, but still decent considering its age. More white blotches, wet spots, missing frames and other forms of wear than I remember from the newer print, but a stark difference in black levels and picture clarity to the polyester print. The projectionists were late to change the fifth-to-last reel over to the next, and so we got a whole countdown as a treat. DATE: September 8th 2023 CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank

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