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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in Southern California
Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay
1999
There were no new first-run 70mm
films during 1999, but there were special screenings of...
February 5:
Blade Runner
Anamorphic Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo
Ladd (Warner Bros.)
Hollywood: [Pacific] Cinerama Dome
[Special one-week engagement of 70mm
work-in-progress version of "Blade Runner" originally shown in Spring 1982
test screenings in Denver and Dallas
— First Los Angeles engagement of this version
— Previously shown in Los
Angeles on a few occasions, including a Spring 1990 70mm Film Festival at
the Fairfax Thaeatre]
Also see 1982 entry
May 14:
Tron (Re-Issue)
Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR
Walt Disney (Buena Vista)
"The Game Begins...Again — Back On
The Big Screen! — Brand-New 70mm Print Only On The Big Screen At The
El Capitan Theatre In Hollywood"
Hollywood: [Pacific] El Capitan (THX)
Additional 70mm Screenings/Engagements:
Long Beach: [CSULB] Richard And Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center*
(Oct. 23, 1999)
Hollywood: [Pacific] El Capitan** (May 6, 2004)
*Shown once during the annual Wide Screen Film Festival
**Limited return engagement
Also see 1982 entry
November 13:
Tomorrow Never Dies
Anamorphic Blow-Up / DTS
MGM/UA
Hollywood: [American Cinematheque] Egyptian
[U.S. Premiere of 70mm Print —
Shown once during "The Great Big 70mm Festival"
— Print originally struck for
special presentation in Oslo, Norway
— Original U.S. 35mm release in Dec. 1997]
November 20:
Godzilla
Spherical (Super-35) Blow-Up / DTS
TriStar
Hollywood: [American Cinematheque] Egyptian
[U.S. Premiere of 70mm Print —
Shown once during "The Great Big 70mm Festival"
— Print originally struck for
special presentation in Oslo, Norway
— Original U.S. 35mm release in May 1998]
November 21:
War And Peace ("Vojna I Mir")
Sovscope 70 / Six-Track Stereo
Hollywood: [American Cinematheque] Egyptian
[Shown once during "The Great Big 70mm Festival"... all 8 hours of it! — Original
1968 Los Angeles engagements appear to have been in 35mm]
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