At 08:47 09-06-00 -0400, you wrote:

Re. EYES WIDE SHUT

>film). Does anyone know if projectionists were given instructions to show it
>at 1:66?
>(My experience has been that many theatres aren't even capable of projecting
>anything except 1:85 and 2:35...)
>R. Hunt

There was a note in one of the cans instructing projectionists to show it
in 1:1.85 (in the UK at least).

You're right - very few cinemas can show anything except 1:1.85 and 'scope.
 That is why FANTASIA 2000 was cropped from the Imax format for a general
release in 1:1.85, and why the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence was optically
reduced to 1:1.33 within a 1:1.85 hard matte.

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