Chicago: Enter to Win Tickets for Screenings of "Inherent Vice" and "The Master" on 70mm

If you live in Chicago and like seeing movies on film, you probably already know about The Music Box Theatre's annual 70mm festival, which started after Paul Thomas Anderson brought The Master to town in August of 2012 for its second-ever public screening.

As it turns out, The Master is returning to The Music Box on 70mm for this year's festival, which kicks off this weekend. What's more, the rare 70mm blow-up print of Inherent Vice will also be shown.

And wouldn't you know it, we have a couple admit-two passes to give away.  So if you live in the Chicago area and are interested in seeing these movies on glorious 70mm, here are the instructions to enter:

Email us at cigscontest@gmail.com

Write "70mm Contest" in the subject line.

In the body of the email, include your name and the title of the movie you would like to win tickets to. If you would like to submit your name for both movies, include both titles in the body, but you can only win tickets to one of the movies.

THE MASTER showtimes:
Saturday, February 20, 7:00pm
Thursday, February 25, 9:30pm

INHERENT VICE showtimes:
Saturday, February 20, 10:30pm
Wednesday, February 24, 7:30pm

Winners will be emailed this Friday morning and will need to confirm their preferred showtime by 6:00 PM Friday evening. If a winner has not confirmed by that time, we will draw another name. Feel free to visit musicboxtheatre.com for more info on the theatre and festival.

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Merry Christmas! Watch PTA & Quentin Tarantino Discuss 70mm, Etc.

Good morning and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it!

Enjoy a 40 minute conversation with PTA and Quentin Tarantino discussing all manner of film, including 70mm.

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70mm Screenings For Inherent Vice Pop Up On The Arclight Webpage

We had been hearing whispers here and there that this might happen, but something happened this morning that makes it one step closer to reality. That's right. Inherent Vice in 70mm.

The website for The Arclight in Hollywood has listings for Vice to be shown in 70mm starting on the first day of the film's limited release, next Friday, in Hollywood. We don't know how long this 70mm engagement will run, or which other 70mm-capable theatres it will expand to, and we have no other confirmation other than that one webpage. We will have a new post with new information if/when it is made available. 

Things could be getting really interesting.

UPDATE: The official Arclight Twitter account has verified that these 70mm screenings are very real and they will be shown after 12/12 as well. (Thanks, Gabriel)

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IV: 10 days

Find more information about the film on our Inherent Vice page. 

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(Side-note for tech-nerds like us: Because Vice was shot on 35mm, this engagement would involve a 70mm 'blow-up', rather than what PTA did with The Master, which shot mostly on 65mm so that the projection was true 70mm. Curious to see the textural differences between the two.)

The Power Of 70MM...In A Language You Probably Don't Know

"The Power Of 70mm" is a short film following from prep to projection fully documenting a mid February screening of The Master to an audience in Aalborg, Denmark. Naturally, the film is in another language and, while a decent amount of my bloodline is Danish, it turns out approximately 0% of my brain is.

Despite this, you will definitely be able to fully grasp what is going on and not feel like you burned 16 minutes of your day. If nothing else, it is a well-produced & refreshing spin on a topic that had been reported into the ground ages ago and from every angle.

UPDATE: 05/22/13

A transcription has been generously provided by site reader Jonas Thorbjoern!

Owner of the cinema:? Am I on now? Welcome to the cinema in Aalborg and in the moment we�re showing T. P. Anderson�s [sic] film "The Master". Not only do we show it, we also showing it in the original 70mm version. And we�re extremely proud and happy about that. We can now only hope that the audience will come and see it in the real 70mm format.??

Girl with yellow shirt:? I�m going to see "The Master" because it seems like a really interesting story. I don�t know what it�s about from viewing the trailers. And also because it�ll be show in 70mm and it will only do that here and at another place in Copenhagen and the screen should be perfect, because it�s a curved screen. And the director had a vision with this format, that it had a significance, so I�m really excited to see what effect it will have on the story and the whole experience.??

Woman in cinema:? It�s truly a great visual story. I think...it�s a flat image but the image is sculptural. the opening scene itself, with the helmet. it looks like silver but it�s completely sculptural, as if you dragged into the image. I think that�s amazing. also the sand sculpture. it should be hard to see it, you know it�s a woman but even the nipples are completely in detail. I think it�s the image quality that makes it so amazing.??

Man in cinema: ?It�s an amazing film, an amazing story. there is some footage of water and I�m completely certain that it�s only on 70mm you can capture the waves like that, made by the ship. then there�s some CUs of the faces and it�s really amazing. also because of the great performances. They are all great. It�s not a movie where you think "Ah, there was that actor who was embarrassing". They are all great. So, it�s all pretty perfect.

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"The Master" is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.