James Dean, Restored Classics from Warner Bros.

9/5/14 to 9/20/14

This series dedicated to the iconic actor showcases beautiful new digital restorations of the three films James Dean made for Warner Brothers: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant.

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East of Eden
Friday, September 5 8:50 PM
Elia Kazan (US, 1955). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean made a thrilling debut in this adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, which transposes the story of Cain and Abel to the Salinas Valley. (115 mins)
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Rebel Without a Cause
Friday, September 12 9:10 PM
Nicholas Ray (US, 1955). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence. (111 mins)
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Giant
Saturday, September 20 7:00 PM
George Stevens (US, 1956). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean burns through the wide Texas plains in this searing Western-style soap opera also starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Dennis Hopper. A wealthy rancher brings his new wife back home to Texas, where she encounters the land's violence and racism-and a virile cowboy (Dean). (201 mins)
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James Dean, Restored Classics from Warner Bros.

9/5/14 to 9/20/14

This series presents beautiful new digital restorations of the three films James Dean made for Warner Brothers: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. In the case of East of Eden, for which the originals sustained heavy physical damage due to the popularity of the film, and Giant, the digital restorations were made as 4K scans from the original 35mm camera negatives. The restoration of Rebel Without a...

“In James Dean, contemporary youth recognizes itself completely, less for the reasons that are usually said-violence, sadism, frenzy, darkness, pessimism and cruelty- than for others infinitely more simple and everyday: emotional modesty, fantasy every moment, the eternal taste of adolescence for the test, drunkenness, pride and regret at feeling ‘outside' of society, refusal of the desire to belong, and finally the acceptance-or refusal-of the world as it is.”-François Truffaut

This series presents beautiful new digital restorations of the three films James Dean made for Warner Brothers: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant. In the case of East of Eden, for which the originals sustained heavy physical damage due to the popularity of the film, and Giant, the digital restorations were made as 4K scans from the original 35mm camera negatives. The restoration of Rebel Without a Cause was completed from an 8K scan of the original CinemaScope camera negative, which because of color fading issues can no longer be used to make an acceptable 35mm print. With these new restorations, screened here in 4K, James Dean will remain forever young for generations of viewers.

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