The 70mm roadshow release of The Hateful Eight filled me with dread.It sounded great – Quentin Tarantino announced he would shoot and release his new film in a defunct format, and The Weinstein Company launched a plan to install restored 70mm projectors in some 100-odd theaters across the U.S. Audiences who turned out for this special release would be treated to not just a longer cut of the film, but an experience – a day at the movies that harkened back to the epic releases of the ’50s and ’60s, complete with overture, intermission and a souvenir program. Tarantino was taking his fetishism of cinema’s past and extending it all the way to your seat in the theater, promising the kind of movie event not experienced in decades. Hot shit; sign me the hell up.
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