Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Movies Don't Overlook last chance to see The Shining on film
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Splatter Cinema's screenings of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining at The Plaza Theatre may mark the end of an era. As the movie business converts to digital projection, studios have been pulling their celluloid film prints out of circulation. Plaza owner Jonathan Rej realized that the all-digital movie age was coming faster than he realized when he contacted Warner Bros. to book a print of The Shining:
"They told me, 'OK, but that's the last one,'" Rej recalls. "They're not going to book The Shining on film in repertory anymore. Our screenings will potentially be the last time anyone will see The Shining on film. That's crazy."
Repertory houses like the Plaza will still be able to book films for digital projection, but cinephiles generally agree that celluloid results in a richer image. The Shining should serve as a showcase for the medium, as director Stanley Kubrick was one of the great artists of screen composition. The Shining broke creative ground with its Steadicam shots of the young boy riding his Big Wheel through the haunted corridors of the Overlook Hotel:
The Shining plays Tue., Dec. 13, and Sat., Dec. 17, 9:30 p.m. Plaza Theatre, 1049 Ponce de Leon Ave. 404-873-1939. www.plazaatlanta.com.
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