A Couple of Quick Updates

~ Lincoln Spector

Totally unconnected to each other:

A new, 35mm print of The Red Shoes plays the Castro this Wednesday and Thursday night. I didn’t mention this in the newsletter because I haven’t seen this movie in decades, and didn’t really appreciate it then (I suspect I’d like it more, now). But even if you don’t care for the ballet-themed story, it’s one of the most beautiful works shot in three-strip Technicolor, and has just underwent an extensive, 4K digital restoration at UCLA. If you miss it this week, you can catch it on April 4 at the Pacific Film Archive, as part of their series Life, Death, and Technicolor: A Tribute to Jack Cardiff.

In case you haven’t heard, Roger Ebert will be receiving the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Mel Novikoff award this year on May 1st. The award goes to “an individual or institution whose work has enhanced the film-going public’s knowledge and appreciation of world cinema.”  Personally, I couldn’t think of a better honoree.

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Lincoln Spector writes about cinema, technology, and cinema technology. From 1986 through 2008, he wrote Gigglebytes, the first technology-oriented humor column. From 1977 through 2016, he wrote PC World's Answer Line column and blog.