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See It Big: 70mm (2024)

Jul 18 — Aug 18, 2024

MoMI’s annual summer tradition returns with a thrilling selection of films screening in 70mm prints. With its higher resolution and more light hitting the frame, 70mm offers the biggest, brightest image—the ideal film format for ambitious cinematic spectacle. The centerpiece of this year’s series is a breathtaking new restoration of John Ford’s enduring 1956 masterpiece The Searchers, making its East Coast theatrical premiere. Other riches abound, from Jacques Tati’s unparalleled work of large-scale comedy Playtime to Christopher Nolan’s time-bending action thriller Tenet to Ron Howard’s grandiose and lush epic Far and Away. And, of course, what See It Big: 70mm series would be complete without Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? 

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Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
A man furiously rides a horse across a prairie, surrounded by other men on horses.

Far and Away
Three men in suits walk towards a camera in a storage room filled with paintings. The man in front carries a teacup and a suitcase.

Tenet
A man furiously rides a horse across a prairie, surrounded by other men on horses.

Far and Away
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
Three men in suits walk towards a camera in a storage room filled with paintings. The man in front carries a teacup and a suitcase.

Tenet
A close-up of a 70mm film strip, showing camels silhouetted against a desert from Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
Three men in suits walk towards a camera in a storage room filled with paintings. The man in front carries a teacup and a suitcase.

Tenet
A close-up of a 70mm film strip, showing camels silhouetted against a desert from Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
A man furiously rides a horse across a prairie, surrounded by other men on horses.

Far and Away
A close-up of a 70mm film strip, showing camels silhouetted against a desert from Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
Three men in suits walk towards a camera in a storage room filled with paintings. The man in front carries a teacup and a suitcase.

Tenet
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
A close-up of a 70mm film strip, showing camels silhouetted against a desert from Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
A close-up of a 70mm film strip, showing camels silhouetted against a desert from Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
Two frames from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the film projector sprockets on the side. The image is of a large black rectangle monolith standing straight in a white, ornate room with a glowing floor and statuaries on the walls.

2001: A Space Odyssey (70mm)
A man, seen from behind, holding a closed umbrella and wearing a trenchcoat and rumpled hat stands near the top of an escalator, looking down on an vast office of cubicles.

Playtime
A man, seen from behind, holding a closed umbrella and wearing a trenchcoat and rumpled hat stands near the top of an escalator, looking down on an vast office of cubicles.

Playtime
A man, seen from behind, holding a closed umbrella and wearing a trenchcoat and rumpled hat stands near the top of an escalator, looking down on an vast office of cubicles.

Playtime
A man, seen from behind, holding a closed umbrella and wearing a trenchcoat and rumpled hat stands near the top of an escalator, looking down on an vast office of cubicles.

Playtime
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers
A man holds a horse's saddle as he stands next to the horse in front of a beige canyon

The Searchers