- 35mm film in your local cinema before it shut down
- 8mm film on home projector
- Video cassette on old style 4:3 TV
- DVD/Bluray on modern widescreen TV
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They don’t show westerns very often in the local cinema nowadays. You need to buy these films as a blu-ray to watch them.
I mean, it’s still the best way (well 70mm is even better)
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Are there still cinemas in Berlin where they screen old movies on film and not DCP?
You probably have a cinematheque, but apart from that?
Yes a few, every now and then, also 70mm, but unfortunately rare cases indeed
Are there any cinemas where they show a lot of older genre movies, both on film and DCP?
Not so much mainstream classics if you know what I mean?
Yes a few
Have you seen any SWs in these cinemas, either on film or DCP?
Yes, only dcp I believe. I do remember some also getting screened in 35mm at some point but I don’t think I attended any of these…
In the 80s and 90s I watched many older films theatrically, amongst them also some SWs.
OuTW at least a dozen times.
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I saw all the Leone westerns in the cinema, the original cut UK prints - although I saw them in the 1980s after first watching on BBC, except for OUATITW for which I never saw the cut version but saw the 1982 re-release of the uncut version in the cinema. I took my dad to watch it at the NFT; he’d never seen it either and he had seen the 3 dollar films on original release in the 1960s which he said were the best westerns ever. The uncut version was also the only one screened on UK TV.
I can’t recall seeing any others in the cinema although I used to see a lot of obscure stuff - including films not certified and never on general release - at the old Scala before it closed down; saw Duck You Sucker (137m version) there.
Wobble - ITV initially aired ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ - the 1981 screening was definitely the cut version (I watched it) and probably the rest too.
Sunday 30th April 1978 (ITV: 21:15 - 00:15)
Friday 17th October 1980 (ITV: 22:35 - 01:40)
Saturday 27th June 1981 (ITV: 21:20 - 00:10)
Saturday 8th November 1986 (ITV: 22:00 - 01:10)
June/July/August 1988 various ITV regions (ITV: 00:30 - 03:30) (ITV clearly had little regard for the film by this stage)
Saturday 23rd December 1989 (BBC2: 23:40 - 02:25) (listed as the ‘restored complete version’ preceded by the ‘Viva Leone!’ documentary)
Saturday 10th October 1992 (BBC2: 22:35 - 01:20)
Sunday 25th June 1995 (BBC2: 22:00 - 00:40) (first widescreen showing)
I think I may have seen it on TV before 1982 but can’t remember. Were those screening the cut version?
I saw the 1982 cinema release of the uncut version.
It’s difficult to be sure as the advertising per clock hour kept changing through the late 70s - early/mid/late-80s, but a 3 hour slot doesn’t seem long enough for the complete version. The film I watched on ITV in 1981 was the cut version then I saw the long version in the cinema in 1985.
i’ve had great experience with DVDs and Blu-rays on a widescreen TV
they offer good quality and convenience. streaming services are also a nice option for a wide selection
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To me the 70s and 80s were the best decades.
In the 70s I was a student, but I worked in a cinema during the weekends. I didn’t need much sleep in those days, and there were late night showings, most of the time action movies, often spaghetti westerns. i fell in love with the genre in those days.
The 80s were marked by the introduction of VHS, or better: by my decision to buy a VHS-player, in 1985, if I remember well. I lived in Antwerp and became a member of the Video Library, the largest Video Rental Shop I have ever seen, they had thousands of films on VHS, lots of them import (some of them on the Bèta system, so you had to rent a player too in order to watch them), and without subtitles, so my gift for learning foreign languages came in very handy. The videocasette was not the ideal way to watch movies (pan & scan, etc.) but it made me a happy man, I watched more movies than ever in those days.