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Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight runs from January 7 to 70mm in EYE, the only theater in the Benelux that the 70mm version has. This version has 6 minutes more widescreen spectacle. For the exclusive representation of the screen of Cinema 1 has been adapted and applied to maximum size.

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It is very special that The Hateful Eight at 70mm, a format that today no more used is filmed. The 70mm version is otherwise mounted by Tarantino, making this edit some six minutes longer. Quentin Tarantino especially for the 70mm film projectors repaired who stood idly in American depots. EYE features as one of the few cinemas still has a well-functioning 70mm projector. Before the show was purchased a special Ultra Panavision lens.

Good westerns have a simple storyline, so did Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film in which seven men and a woman collide in wintry Wyoming, just after the end of the Civil War. A snowstorm is sweeping across the hills of Wyoming, four on the way to Red Rock seek refuge in a stagecoach station.

It’s the bounty hunter John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth, his prisoner Daisy, Major Marquis ‘The Bounty Hunter’ Warren (with three fresh corpses) and Chris “The Sheriff” Mannix. In the tavern await Bob ‘The Mexican’, Oswaldo “The Little Man” Mobray, Joe “The Cow Puncher ‘Gage and former general Sanford’ The Confederate” Smithers. Who will arrive intact at Red Rock

To be spectacular Ultra Panavision 70 Western filmed – with an original score by Ennio Morricone – Tarantino chose some of his favorite actors, including Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Bruce Dern. The recordings were made with the same anamorphic lens that Hollywood classics as Ben Hur (1959) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) are reversed.