[Frameworks] Modern 16mm features, distributed on film

[Julian Antos]

Wow! BATMAN BEGINS in 16mm!




On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Ed Inman <edinman at earthlink.net> wrote:

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> John, if by "mainstream" you mean new release major studio films available
> for rent on 16mm you could still get about everything in the 90s but things
> fell off very rapidly after 2000, and by 2006 it was really the end of the
> road. The last one to be released on 16mm as best as I can tell was "Cars"
> the animated Disney feature from 2006. Here is the last list of 16mm
> titles ever available from Swank Motion Pictures:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20071109223539/http://www.swank.com/college/16mmrelease.html
>    It's worth noting that in the 90s besides Swank and Criterion (which
> represented the big studios) a lot of indy distributors also offered their
> films in 16mm. Some included October Films, Samuel Goldwyn, New Yorker,
> etc. I've often wondered what happened to all those prints.  --Ed
>
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>
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> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:08 PM, John Woods  wrote:
> >
> >
> > Alain, while I'm primarily interested in experimental or artists films,
> > I'd open up to mainstream films too. I'm more broadly interested in the
> > state of 16mm film as an exhibition format and not necessarily
> > experimental. If Spielberg decided to distribute his latest on 16mm, then
> > that would count. I guess I'm biased in my thinking that a 16mm print
> > nowadays is an indulgence for the creator and few mainstream filmmakers
> are
> > going to convince their distributor to pick up the bill for the print.
> >
>
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