Starting Fri Sept 13, the Hollywood Theatre’s getting one of the few 70mm prints of Quentin Tarantino’s latest, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. When the film opened last month, the Hollywood—along with CineMagic—had it on 35mm, and it looked great. (The CineMagic still has it on 35mm, if you want to see it on the format it was shot on.) Once Upon a Time… is an exceedingly pretty movie, and I imagine it’ll also be gorgeous in 70mm.
I have very little to add to this, aside from alerting you film nerds about the 70mm stuff. I reviewed the film when it opened, and loved it:
“Why can’t real life be more like the movies?” Tarantino’s film asks longingly, even as the filmmaker recognizes the naïveté of the question. While Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is an enormous amount of fun, the shadows of each frame remind us that reality is far darker, and much more cruel, than anything on the silver screen.
(That said, here at Mercury HQ, opinions about the film have… differed.)
(That said, my opinion is the correct one.)
