This past Sunday I forked over $12.50 a piece for my wife and I to see “Gone With The Wind” at a movie theater. It was the 75th Anniversary showing. I hardly ever go to the movies. Yes I’ve saw the great movie on DVD many times, but had never watched it on a wide-screen. Hollywood does not make movies like that anymore. Only “cuss word” in the classic is when Rhett Butler says “damn” at the end. Now it’ “F” this and “F” that, and the stars having sex so much the movie should be rated XX. Trashy garbage.
Cinematography in that era was in a whole other realm. If I understand correctly GWTW was shot in 35mm and blown up to 70mm. There is a list of films from the 60s-70s that were actually shot in 70mm. Transferred well to Blu-Ray they are stunning. Jacques Tati’s PLAYTIME (Criterion Collection) is a good example. So is 2001: A Space Odyssey (visual art, if tedious).