INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Boiling it down to its basic principle: remastering a movie is making the old new again
With the constant proliferation of pixels in our televisions, features that make blacks really black and, by contrast, bright colors ping on
Film by its nature is fragile, something that needs to be nurtured
The audio will go through some sort of new arrangement to fit into surround sound
What if you just want it back to how it was, if you were lucky and old enough, to watch it on the big screen all those years agoRemaster and
commanderThis is what Christopher Nolan has tackled and achieved with his Unrestored version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, heading to cinemas
Nolan's movie had the widest release for a 70mm movie for some 25 years
It came at a time when Quentin Tarantino was also using the format to shoot The Hateful Eight and, a few years before, director Paul Thomas
Anderson used it for The Master
Space Odyssey back on the big screen is testament to the lasting legacy of film
Yes, the print has the odd scratch but at 50 years old, these are lines on a weathered face, slight imperfections that should be cherished
The audio is almost overbearing at times, without a sniff of a Dolby Atmos revision
It's taken from a near-original 35mm six-channel soundtrack and is all the better for it
Kubrick wanted the sound to be extreme and in this original mix you can hear, well, the fear.Watching it in the PictureHouse Central in
London, complete with introductory music cue to a curtained-shut screen and 15-minute intermission, was a fascinating experience
The picture, for me, didn't unearth any new secrets - it's still a movie that's as beguiling as it will always be, but it did make me
What Nolan has managed to do is showcase this uncompromizing film in its most uncompromized form.This isn't about nostalgia but the
preservation of what may soon be the lost art of film watching - seeing a big print on the big screen
