- 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.