Watching a Steven Spielberg hit played on a physical film is a glorious trip down memory lane for moviegoers <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know about anyone else, but I forgot how much I missed going to the movies. And let me tell you, there is no better way for a triumphant return to a cinephile life than to hit Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Vista Theater in Los Feliz. <\/p>\n
Like a lot of people, sitting on my sofa in beat-up sweats, no bra, picking at microwave popcorn with the dog being forced fed titles from an algorithm I will never understand on my cheap 40-inch TV became way too convenient. Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d is most certainly not something to be watched accompanied by the not-so-soothing sounds of the Venice Beach boardwalk denizens below, so I did what many of us used to do once or twice a week. Grab some friends and see a movie. <\/p>\n
In my opinion, there is no better experience than the Vista, the historic Sunset Avenue haven for movie lovers that was purchased by Tarantino in 2021, nearly a century after the Egyptian-themed single-screen cinema opened in 1923. Tarantino\u2019s vision wasn\u2019t just a landlord\u2019s special of slapping some new paint on the walls and reupholstering the famously comfie seats. Movies there are exclusively shown on 35mm or 70mm physical celluloid film. <\/p>\n
Which is what made watching a summer blockbuster like \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d a nostalgic experience. Digital screenings now have that artificial AI-ish feel, but watching a 70mm print is a nostalgic experience, all organic film grain and soft, rich color tones that digital projectors simply cannot copy.<\/p>\n
Tarantino has complained about Hollywood in recent days, calling Hollywood a \u201cflavorless sausage factory,\u201d in a story for Sight & Sound magazine. The Oscar winner even bemoaned that \u201cit\u2019s almost impossible\u201d for him to sit through a modern-day film and not criticize it \u201cto death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe he\u2019s right. \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d which runs with old trailers of Spielberg\u2019s other big-budget space-themed hits, isn\u2019t a perfect movie. But watching it with fellow Angelenos in the glorious old Vista Theater is a perfect night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching a Steven Spielberg hit played on a physical film is a glorious trip down memory lane for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18268,48,52,51,47,50,49,5260,47917,28398,148001,148002],"class_list":["post-364586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-disclosure","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-feliz","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-sunset-avenue","tag-vista-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}