With the full programme for this year’s Widescreen Weekend film festival announced today, we consider the significance of widescreen cinema, and look at why it’s important that we restore films.
Il Cinema Ritrovato is an Italian film festival dedicated to rediscovered cinema. Rebecca, our festival coordinator, writes about attending this celebration of archive film for the first time.
Now in its 21st year, Widescreen Weekend is one of the highlights of our calendar—every October we welcome hundreds of film fans to the museum to experience widescreen delights both old and new.
This year’s Widescreen Weekend opened with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which launched the yearly film festival on Thursday 12 October.
The National Science and Media Museum is home to Pictureville Cinema, one of only three public venues in the world that can still show Cinerama—and the only one remaining in the UK.
This year we celebrated our 20th edition of Widescreen Weekend—and it was truly one to remember.
Our much-loved festival celebrating large-format film, Widescreen Weekend, is back for 2016!
If you didn’t manage to get along to Widescreen Weekend, here’s just a small taste of the shots we got during the festival.
The world première of A Holiday in Spain in the all new Smell-O-Vision is coming to Bradford for Widescreen Weekend.
Let us guide you through some highlights of what’s coming up in our 2015 film festival.
We’re back with our unique celebration of boundary-pushing technology and spectacular large format films, offering an experience that’s beyond the scope of ordinary cinema.
Tom Vincent considers the death of film as a distribution format, and why it’s more important than ever to keep film history alive.