A disgrace to the forces of evil

[sovay]

I aten't dead! I have seen four movies this weekend, three of them as part of the Somerville Theatre's 70 mm & Widescreen Festival and one from the Brattle's Wicked Queer Flashback. I should like to write about all of them, although I have some other things I want to get out of my head first. For the record, Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Tron (1982) are knockouts in 70 mm; the first is much more beautiful and much more self-aware than I remembered or could perceive in elementary school and the second, while it has some very weird script problems, holds together much better than I'd thought from its reputation and still doesn't look like anything in this universe. I really need to see Maleficent (2014). I should also buy some groceries now that I have a pantry again.

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Oddly, I thought it was even earlier than that, say 1952-4! I probably jumbled it up with Cinderella (checking... 1950).

The visual style in Sleeping Beauty is both beautiful and oddly flat-feeling to me. It's probably better on widescreen, though.

I remember seeing Mary Poppins in widescreen before they chopped the hometown theater up. It was truly immersive before we had immersive theaters.