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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity

 

 Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay

 


 

1994

 

May 25:

LITTLE BUDDHA

Anamorphic Blow-Up & ARRI System 765 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

RPC/CIBY 2000/Miramax

 

Manhattan: [City] Cinema 1

 

Additional 70mm Screening

Queens: American Museum of the Moving Image*  (Mar. 6, 2004)

 

*Shown one time during a Bernardo Bertolucci retrospective

 

 

 

 

June 15:

THE LION KING

Spherical (Super 1.85) Blow-Up / Dolby Digital*

Walt Disney/Buena Vista

 

Manhattan: [Cablevision] Radio City Music Hall

 

World Premiere Engagement June 15-23 — Included “Disney’s Magical Moments” stage show

 

*70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR and 35mm Dolby Digital prints synchronously run — Presentation sourced from the 70mm print (for image) and the Dolby Digital track of the 35mm print (for audio) — 70mm print was magnetically striped and sounded as an emergency back-up and for future use of print

 

 

 

 

July 15:

TRUE LIES

Spherical (Super-35) Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR

Lightstorm/20th Century Fox

“When he said I do, he never said what he did.”

 

Manhattan: [Crown/City] Gotham

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld

 

Engagements included 70mm Sneak Preview screening on July 14

 

Additional 70mm Engagements

Manhattan: [Sony] 34th Street Showplace  (Aug. 5)

Manhattan: [UA] Criterion Center  (Sep. 23)

 

 

 

 

September 21:

MY FAIR LADY  (Re-Issue)

Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo

Warner Bros./CBS/20th Century Fox

“More ‘Loverly’ than ever.”

 

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld

 

Includes World Re-Premiere on Sep. 19

 

Expanded Release on Sep. 30

Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Beekman  (move-over from Ziegfeld)

Woodbury: [UA] The Syosset

 

[Also see 1964 & 1971 entries, 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry and 1996 “Warner Bros. Classics” entry]

 

 

 

 

September 23:

PLAYTIME

70mm Mitchell / Six-Track Stereo

Spectra/Janus

 

Manhattan: [Lincoln Center] Walter Reade

 

Shown six times during the series “The Heady Comedy of Jacques Tati” — Believed to be the first time shown in New York in 70mm — Original 1973 U.S. release in 35mm

 

Additional 70mm Engagement

Queens: American Museum of the Moving Image*  (Dec. 16, 2000)

 

*Shown three times during the series “The Films of Jacques Tati”

 

[Also see 2004 re-issue entry]

 

 

 

 

November 17:

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

Spherical Blow-Up & Panavision Super 70 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR

20th Century Fox

 

Manhattan: [Cablevision] Radio City Music Hall

 

World Premiere screening only — Film released citywide in 35mm on Nov. 18

 


 

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