CITY Screen, York, launched a season of 70mm High Definition Cinema last month with Lawrence Of Arabia. It was an appropriately big success, and so the advice is to book early for the second instalment, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (PG), on Sunday (3rd) afternoon at 2pm.
The 70mm format is the film industry's gold standard but its production costs are so high that is rarely used or seen today, and City Screen, York, has become one of only a handful of British venues with the capability of showing it.
In layman's terms, every 70mm frame is twice as bigasn a normal 35mm frame; this leads to better resolution and definition, and brighter, sharper, more colourful images on screen.
Spartacus was directed in 1960 by Kubrick, who took over from original director Anthony Mann after a fortnight's shooting.
Downbeat and epic, this heroic story of the slaves of Rome in revolt starred the likes of Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton but the Academy Award went to a name further down the credits list: Peter Ustinov, winner of the Best Supporting Actor category.
Tickets for Sunday's show cost £5.50, City Screen members £4.50, on 01904 541144.
Updated: 09:54 Friday, November 01, 2002
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