I have an extra ticket to give away free for tonight's Texas Public Radio "Cinema Tuesday" showing of the classic, Lawrence of Arabia, winner of 7 Academy Awards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3tuBFHuYV4
The 50th-Anniversary restoration of this film, by Sony, is in 4K, with 4 times the resolution of Blue Ray.
Showtime is 7:00 PM at the Santikos Bijou Cinema Bistro, located in the Wonderland of the Americas (former Crossroads) Mall, at I-10 & Loop 410.
If interested:
1. PM me by 5:00 this afternoon.
2. Plan to meet me at the Bijou box office at 6:00 PM sharp. You can beat the crowds to a decent seat and order some dinner and drink while waiting for the film to start.
- Bush Pilot
- 05-28-2013, 03:22 PM
- hittinit
- 05-28-2013, 08:58 PM
WOW. Never heard of 4k. Post a lil something about how it was.
- Bush Pilot
- 05-28-2013, 11:48 PM
Here is a NY Times review of the Sony re-release:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/mo...anted=all&_r=0
The review's explanation of the technique of 4K digital restoration, which took roughly a year on this film:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/mo...anted=all&_r=0
The review's explanation of the technique of 4K digital restoration, which took roughly a year on this film:
When a machine called the Imagica EX scans across each frame of a film’s negative, it creates a digitally encoded replica that consists of 4,000 (actually, 4,096) pixels on each horizontal line. Multiplied by the 2,160 pixels on each vertical line, this makes for a total of 8.8 million pixels per frame.Just back from the show. Had it gotten any more real, I'd have the smell of blood, gunpowder, and camel odor in my nostrils. That good.
By comparison, high-definition TV broadcasts and Blu-ray Discs are made from scans of 2.2 million pixels per frame. In other words, 4K images have four times as much detail and resolution as HD or Blu-ray.
- Rossboss
- 05-29-2013, 06:32 PM
Toooooooo long. Half decent film about a gay Brit who has balls and a love for Arabs. Mmmmmmmm. No.
- Precious_b
- 05-29-2013, 07:38 PM
I know Sony was one of the few with the 1080X4 digital.
From personal experience, one of the few movies that must be seen on the Big Screen.
Was lucky enough to see it years ago when they pieced it all back together again and saw at the Bijou.
Wish I knew they were showing it today
From personal experience, one of the few movies that must be seen on the Big Screen.
Was lucky enough to see it years ago when they pieced it all back together again and saw at the Bijou.
Wish I knew they were showing it today