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A year-by-year, film-by-film history of 70-millimeter wide gauge exhibition in New York City & Vicinity
Compiled by Michael Coate and William Kallay
1994
May 25:
LITTLE BUDDHA
Anamorphic Blow-Up & ARRI System 765 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo
RPC/CIBY 2000/Miramax
Manhattan: [City] Cinema 1
Additional 70mm Screening
Queens: American Museum of the Moving Image* (Mar. 6, 2004)
*Shown one time during a Bernardo Bertolucci retrospective
June 15:
THE LION KING
Spherical (Super 1.85) Blow-Up / Dolby Digital*
Walt Disney/Buena Vista
Manhattan: [Cablevision] Radio City Music Hall
World Premiere Engagement June 15-23 — Included “Disney’s Magical Moments” stage show
*70mm Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR and 35mm Dolby Digital prints synchronously run — Presentation sourced from the 70mm print (for image) and the Dolby Digital track of the 35mm print (for audio) — 70mm print was magnetically striped and sounded as an emergency back-up and for future use of print
July 15:
TRUE LIES
Spherical (Super-35) Blow-Up / Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR
Lightstorm/20th Century Fox
“When he said I do, he never said what he did.”
Manhattan: [Crown/City] Gotham
Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld
Engagements included 70mm Sneak Preview screening on July 14
Additional 70mm Engagements
Manhattan: [Sony] 34th Street Showplace (Aug. 5)
Manhattan: [UA] Criterion Center (Sep. 23)
September 21:
MY FAIR LADY (Re-Issue)
Super Panavision 70 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo
Warner Bros./CBS/20th Century Fox
“More ‘Loverly’ than ever.”
Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Ziegfeld
Includes World Re-Premiere on Sep. 19
Expanded Release on Sep. 30
Manhattan: [Cineplex Odeon] Beekman (move-over from Ziegfeld)
Woodbury: [UA] The Syosset
[Also see 1964 & 1971 entries, 1978 “Broadway Comes To Broadway” entry and 1996 “Warner Bros. Classics” entry]
September 23:
PLAYTIME
70mm Mitchell / Six-Track Stereo
Spectra/Janus
Manhattan: [Lincoln Center] Walter Reade
Shown six times during the series “The Heady Comedy of Jacques Tati” — Believed to be the first time shown in New York in 70mm — Original 1973 U.S. release in 35mm
Additional 70mm Engagement
Queens: American Museum of the Moving Image* (Dec. 16, 2000)
*Shown three times during the series “The Films of Jacques Tati”
[Also see 2004 re-issue entry]
November 17:
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
Spherical Blow-Up & Panavision Super 70 / Six-Track Dolby Stereo SR
20th Century Fox
Manhattan: [Cablevision] Radio City Music Hall
World Premiere screening only — Film released citywide in 35mm on Nov. 18
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