I now have tickets to How the West Was Won at the Seattle Cinerama. (!!!) This will be the first use of the Cinerama screen and projectors since it was restored by Paul Allen for this very purpose. There are only a few working Cinerama theaters in the world, and prints of Cinerama films such as How the West Was Won are equally scarce.

HTWWW is part of the Seattle International Film Festival, showing on June 2 at 11:00am and 8:30pm. $15/ea. Buy tickets for the 8:30 show and receive free tickets to the 2:45 showing of Cinerama Adventure, a new Cinerama documentary on the medium. Also showing that day: This Is Cinerama, at 5:15, a 140-minute demo film--which I also have tickets for. (Most of the films available in the 3-projector format are demo films; HTWWW is one of the few fictional features done in the format.) Call (206)-324-9996 for ticket sales or more information.

I've been waiting for this ever since I heard the Cinerama was going to be restored. Newsgroup movie nuts (like me) have been talking about flying to Seattle from Australia just to see HTWWW.

So it's a big deal.