Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest at Egyptian Theatre

2:00 PM - BARAKA in 70mm

Originally shot in 25 countries on six continents, BARAKA brought together a series of stunningly photographed scenes to capture what director Ron Fricke calls “a guided mediation on humanity.” It was a shoot of unprecedented technical, logistical and bureaucratic scope that would take 30 months to complete, including 14 months on location, with a custom-built computerized 65mm camera. “The goal of the film,” says producer Mark Magidson, “was to reach past language, nationality, religion and politics and speak to the inner viewer.”

FORMAT: 70mm

COUNTRY: USA

Tickets: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

5:00 PM - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 70mm

With 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking in this classic science fiction masterpiece. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into unchartered realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK/USA

Tickets: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

8:15 PM - NORTH BY NORTHWEST in 70mm

Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers. While leaving New York’s Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name “George Kaplan” is paged–starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him–and by police who suspect him of murder.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: WARNER BROS.

COUNTRY: USA

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) was filmed in VistaVision and released in 1.85. Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original 8 per 35mm VistaVision camera negative in 13k with all restoration work completed in 6.5k. The 70mm film print was created by filming out a new 65mm negative. The 5.1 audio mix was created from the original mono stems. The Film Foundation has given approval of the restoration.

Tickets: $15.00 (members-only)