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Classic Movies @ The Cinema | Times & Dates

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭Sinister Kid


    I was there :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    paulieeye wrote: »
    Was anyone else at the Pulp Fiction screening the other night? Almost a full house and you could bring you beer in!!!

    Anyone know what format it was?

    Aw Man - I'm always a day late checking this thread! :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭paulieeye


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    Aw Man - I'm always a day late checking this thread! :(

    follow the thread and set up notifications..some good stuff coming outta this!


  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lots in the lighthouse from October to November - the shining, 2001, full metal jacket, a clockwork orange etc.

    http://lighthouse.admit-one.eu/index.php?s=LHSMITHF&PHPSESSID=b5qm9vsq1g5gk76trnnf507fu2


  • Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭paulieeye


    Lighthouse, alladin and Good will hunting in aid of Pieta House: Suicide and Self Harm Crisis Centre

    http://www.lighthousecinema.ie/newsarticle.php?sec=NEWS&_aid=7020&utm_source=13+August+2014&utm_campaign=Newsletter+13+August&utm_medium=email


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭Catcher7791


    Outdoor screenings of Dead Poets Society tonight in Merrion Square and Good Will Hunting on Saturday night in Fitzwilliam Square, again with all proceeds going to Pieta House:

    http://happenings.ie/dublin/a-tribute-to-robin-williams/


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Meant to mention it before but IMC cinemas have a Ghibli season staritng on the 20th of this month.

    The films being screened are:
    My Neighbour Totoro on the 20 August
    Tales from Earthsea on the 27 August
    Howl's Moving Castle on September 3
    Grave of the Fireflies on September 10
    The Wind Rises on September 17
    Princess Mononoke on September 24


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Went to see "Rear Window" in the Lighthouse on Monday, great to see once I was there but it was only a DVD, wish they'd advertise the fact in advance and I wouldn't have bothered.

    Are you sure it was a DVD? Bit of a joke when they could have picked up a copy of the Blu-ray for a tenner.

    The only classic screenings I go to are the ones in the IFI, and even then, only when I’m sure it’s a proper digital print and not a DCP with the crappy DNR’d-to-death Blu-ray master on it, which the studios are very fond of doing.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Are you sure it was a DVD? Bit of a joke when they could have picked up a copy of the Blu-ray for a tenner.

    The only classic screenings I go to are the ones in the IFI, and even then, only when I’m sure it’s a proper digital print and not a DCP with the crappy DNR’d-to-death Blu-ray master on it, which the studios are very fond of doing.

    I remember going to a screening of Coppola's Dracula with a masterclass from the writer afterward and we were told that the film would be screening from a print. On the day what we got was the film projected from a DVD that skipped a number of times. I still don't know what was worse, the fact that they didn't even bother getting a Blu-Ray copy to project or the fact that nobody bothered to sit down beforehand and check the DVD would play properly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭vidor


    What's the difference between a 'proper' digital print and a DCP? On the IFI site, iirc, they say it's a film print, d-cinema or blu/DVD.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    D-cinema means DCP. It's how pretty much all films are projected these days.

    A proper DCP is sourced from the highest quality digital transfer of the film. A bad DCP is just the heavily compressed Blu-ray master. Projectionists often speculate based on the file size but there's no way of knowing for sure without watching the film where the presence of excessive DNR and compression artefacts are the giveaway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭vidor


    How can you be sure it's going to be a good digital print? Obviously when I just scanning through the programme, I'm just working off the film being shown in DCP.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    That's my point, you can't.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They really should advertise what format they are projecting from, I've sent multiple emails to IMC and tried ringing them to find out what the format is being used for the Ghibli season. So far I have yet to get a definite answer. Had the same issue with the Dublin Grindhouse screenings, took multiple messages both on here and on facebook before someone got back to me with an answer.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    A DCP or 35mm print costs a lot to transport, so if they don't explicitly state what format it is you can assume it's a DVD or Blu-ray. The Lighthouse's upcoming Kubrick season is a good example of this. The only mention of projection format is in the 2001 blurb, which says it is a "remastered digital print". I assume this is the recently released BFI print, which came from a transfer provided by Warners. Whether it's actually remastered or not was still unknown the last I read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭encryptix


    A DCP or 35mm print costs a lot to transport, so if they don't explicitly state what format it is you can assume it's a DVD or Blu-ray. The Lighthouse's upcoming Kubrick season is a good example of this. The only mention of projection format is in the 2001 blurb, which says it is a "remastered digital print". I assume this is the recently released BFI print, which came from a transfer provided by Warners. Whether it's actually remastered or not was still unknown the last I read.

    Where did you see this? Im interested in going to see this but not if its a DVD copy


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,724 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Having seen 2001 in glorious 70mm twice, I think I'll be avoiding that Lighthouse screening regardless!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    A DCP or 35mm print costs a lot to transport
    I understand 35MM but DCP? Is it not just a digital file?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,724 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    They usually come on special hard drives delivered by courier:

    dcp.jpeg

    Digital delivery is possible and likely to become the primary method in future, but I think HDDs are still the main form of transport and deliver.

    Still a ****load cheaper than a print though!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Are you sure it was a DVD? Bit of a joke when they could have picked up a copy of the Blu-ray for a tenner.

    The only classic screenings I go to are the ones in the IFI, and even then, only when I’m sure it’s a proper digital print and not a DCP with the crappy DNR’d-to-death Blu-ray master on it, which the studios are very fond of doing.

    Yep 100% because I have the DVD they used in my own collection! It had a weird aspect ratio (kind of 12/9) and a momentary freeze at the exact point as my copy that I've only ever seen on my dvd version, plus the credits are the same, its actually poor even for a dvd!. Its this exact one:

    hitchcock_rear_window_uk_dvd_cover_large_new.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    If anyone has 2 tickets to alladin and cant make it give me a shout. Went to buy tix last week and said id leave it until later to add my loyalty card num and by then it was sold out


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Grindhouse Dublin are screening Brandon Lee's coup de grace The Crow on Halloween night in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield at 22:30.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    I would say yay!!! to that but mehopes not as I have tickets to see The Shining at that same time and place Halloween night :P:confused: Think someone at the cinema got mixed up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    The Lighthouse's upcoming Kubrick season is a good example of this....

    I was interested in going to some of these films but saw no mention of the format so I'll pass. I assume they are just projecting blu-rays unless they have stated otherwise somewhere?

    Much like another poster, I have emailed cinemas about format enquiries but rarely if ever get proper information back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    See that Dr, Strangelove is on tonight, any idea what the format is? Were previous Kubrick season films only Blu Ray or are they at least D Cinema?


  • Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭Arkaron


    Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) from 1946 will be shown on Monday, October 27, at Brooks Hotel (Dublin 2).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 467 ✭✭Hugo_Whoriskey


    The Wickerman (the original obviously) will be shown in The Sugar Club on Wednesday 29th October as a fundraiser for First Fortnight, a charity that aims to challenge mental health prejudice through the arts.

    Tickets are 10 euro and can be bought here and on the door if not sold out http://entertainment.ie/show-/The-Sugar-Club/First-Frightnight-Wickerman-Party-Night-in-aid-of-First-Fortnight/event-2728253.htm


  • Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭franer1970


    Alien & Aliens double bill, Vue Cinema, Halloween night (Friday 31st Oct).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    35mm screening of American Psyho in Lighthouse, 19.15 Monday, 27 October

    http://www.lighthousecinema.ie/newsarticle.php?sec=NEWS&_aid=1643


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,680 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    They must be reading this thread. :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 113 ✭✭BrokenHero


    Late night Withnail & I screening tonight in the Lighthouse.

    Showing on Screen 1, their largest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    franer1970 wrote: »
    Alien & Aliens double bill, Vue Cinema, Halloween night (Friday 31st Oct).

    Do you know what format this is being shown in?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    VHS


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,724 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Playtime is in the IFI from Friday. A strong candidate for greatest comedy film in the history of cinema. Remove the comedy bit and you wouldn't be too far off either :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    I wish cinemas in Cork would screen classic movies more often. The only one I've seen was Back to the Future for its 25th anniversary.


  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭vidor


    Playtime is in the IFI from Friday. A strong candidate for greatest comedy film in the history of cinema. Remove the comedy bit and you wouldn't be too far off either :)

    Tempted but d-cinema is putting me off slightly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Next Wednesday 12th @8.30pm in the Lighthouse Cinema

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭encryptix


    On the mobile version of the vue site under coming soon is 2001 A Space Odyssey is on 30 Nov

    http://m.myvue.com/now-booking.aspx?cinemaid=60


    ( http://m.myvue.com/film-info.aspx?cinemaid=60&filmid=5265 )


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4 Ushabye


    Try not to be put off by 'D-Cinema'. The restoration of PLAYTIME was done at 4K retaining all the original grain of the celluloid. It looks magnificent. Though, on saying that, it doesn't beat the 70MM version I saw a couple of years ago, complete with a new DTS soundtrack. The experience was stunning.

    Fingers crossed for the BFI's restoration of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY coming at the end of the month. The newly made trailer is currently running (in Cinemascope) at the IFI. But the image is worryingly dark. I hope this isn't reflected in the actual print.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    Is that a new restoration Ushabye?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 Ushabye


    According to the BFI it is a new restoration. If the trailer was struck from the final restored print, it'll be disappointing. The cut from the spinning bone to the missile platform...there's nothing but shadow, most of the detail is lost. I may be spoiled from watching the 70mm version a few times, but the detail is there on the bluray also.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,724 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Frustrating that the IFI has no evening screenings of Playtime, but that seems to almost always be the case with their classic screenings :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭vidor


    Ushabye wrote: »
    Try not to be put off by 'D-Cinema'. The restoration of PLAYTIME was done at 4K retaining all the original grain of the celluloid. It looks magnificent. Though, on saying that, it doesn't beat the 70MM version I saw a couple of years ago, complete with a new DTS soundtrack. The experience was stunning.

    Thanks but as mentioned above, the showing times are crap so I won't get a chance to see it. I wonder what sort of numbers the IFI are pulling in for screenings like this, seems senseless to have them on during the day only.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    vidor wrote: »
    Thanks but as mentioned above, the showing times are crap so I won't get a chance to see it. I wonder what sort of numbers the IFI are pulling in for screenings like this, seems senseless to have them on during the day only.

    There were only 1 or 2 empty seats at the 16.00 screening today but that was in the smallest screen. Unfortunately none of us got to see the film because of a power failure in the area! No Playtime for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Ciaran_B wrote: »
    There were only 1 or 2 empty seats at the 16.00 screening today but that was in the smallest screen. Unfortunately none of us got to see the film because of a power failure in the area! No Playtime for me.
    Yeah was there too. Thought the staff handled it well and replacement tickets were offered but disappointing all the same. :(

    Was at Leviathan right before it so at least my trip into town wasn't a complete waste.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Blade Runner is on in Cineworld on the 14th. Definitely going to see that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    "Grindhouse Dublin" are screening John McNaughtons classic - Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer - this month, date tbc.

    IMO it's Michael Rookers finest hour and easily the best serial killer movie ever made.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Ageyev


    "Grindhouse Dublin" are screening John McNaughtons classic - Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer - this month, date tbc.

    IMO it's Michael Rookers finest hour and easily the best serial killer movie ever made.
    How can I keep up to date with these? The last post on their website was for Tango & Cash last November/December. Don't have FB so I can't see their page.


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