Back on my regular schedule, it’s a good time to be a New
Yorker, with Film Forum’s Universal 100 festival playing some great hits. I
wish more could be said for Museum of the Moving Image’s presentation of an IB
Technicolor print of Vertigo, which
had some issues. I was quite excited to see the film on 35mm, and especially
curious to see it because this print was struck before the infamous 1996
restoration. Having the film at MoMI’s large screen and perfect acoustics
seemed perfect for a film I’ve deemed the greatest ever made, but sadly it was
just a bit out of focus and even worse, incorrectly framed (unless the film was
“irected by Alfred Hitchcoc”), which slightly dimmed the experience, along with
the inappropriate audience laughter (though a highly appropriate scream at the
end, when the “shadowy figure” at the end). Word on the street was that it looked a bit better on Sunday night. I wrote some notes on it on a comment over at Glenn Kenny's place, so check that over there.
-Mogambo,
1953. Directed by John Ford. 35mm projection at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
-The Suspect,
1944. Directed by Richard Siodmack. 35mm projection at Film Forum.
-Phantom Lady,
1944. Directed by Richard Siodmack. 35mm projection at Film Forum.
-Vertigo, 1958.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 35mm IB Technicolor projection at Museum of the
Moving Image.
-The Band Wagon,
1953. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. HD on Turner Classic Movies.
