The Paris Theater is thrilled to announce our full lineup for the third annual Big & Loud, a screening series that will deliver four consecutive weeks of cinema’s most unforgettable sensory experiences with a jam-packed lineup of 70mm, Dolby Atmos, and audio-obsessive cinema!  

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Series Highlights

• Premieres of the Paris’ own brand new 70mm prints of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director’s Cut) and Lawrence of Arabia
• First NYC 70mm screenings in 30+ years of The  Doors, Dune (1984), Ghostbusters (1984), and Total Recall (1990),  Amadeus and Spaceballs
• Amadeus followed by a Q&A with Paul Zaentz of the Saul Zaentz Company on September 13 and aQ&A with Academy Award-winning star F. Murray Abraham on September 21
• Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center, featuring films from the Bob Dylan Archive, followed by an onstage conversation between Steven Jenkins, Director of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, and musician Elvis Costello
• Apocalypse Now: Original 1979 Roadshow Version, featuring the 4K restoration supervised by Francis Ford Coppola
• New 4K Restorations  of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

The series - playing August 29 through October 9 - originally debuted in 2023 upon the historic Paris Theater’s reopening to showcase its state-of-the-art technical upgrades, including a newly installed Dolby Atmos sound system and the technology to screen 70mm for the first time in fifteen years. With over 500 seats, Manhattan’s last remaining single screen theater also became its largest Atmos cinema.

This year’s edition of Big & Loud is our most exciting yet, featuring over 40 films, including 13 films on 70mm, and 6 films presented with special Dolby Atmos sound mixes. Big & Loud offers a completely immersive experience, with picture and sound that allows audiences to fully immerse in the worlds onscreen, reveals new details to even the most seasoned filmgoers, and brings the intricate, thoughtful sound design of some of cinema history’s most gifted film artists to life.

In addition to the previously announced New York premiere of the Paris’ own newly struck 70mm print of the newly-restored, director-approved version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Big & Loud’s 70mm lineup includes a dozen more titles, most making their Big & Loud debut and some of which haven’t played on 70mm in New York in over 30 years! 

The Paris Theater will debut our very own brand new 70mm print of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia! Additionally, producer Paul Zaentz will join us for a Q&A following a rare 70mm screening of Miloš Forman’s Best Picture Oscar winner Amadeus, from a print courtesy of The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, England. Also playing in 70mm are a recently re-discovered, beautiful print of Ghostbusters, David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, Jacques Tati’s brilliant, dialogue-free comic masterwork PlayTime, Paul Verhoeven’s Schwarzenegger/ Stone thrill-ride Total Recall, Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s The Doors, Mel Brooks’ uproarious spoof of the Star Wars universe, Spaceballs, a pair of Christopher Nolan’s most exciting and ambitious works -  Interstellar and Dunkirk - and of course, the glorious spectacle of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
 

Films presented in Dolby Atmos include Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its sequel Blade Runner 2049, a new 4K restoration of The Wiz, Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar winner Roma, the Wachowskis’ The Matrix, and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

Special events include the Manhattan premiere of a new 4K restoration of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, some of master filmmaker Werner Herzog’s most compelling and rarely screened short features presented in a collection called Herzog on 45, a special show of the Original 1979 Roadshow Version of Apocalypse Now newly available in a 4K Restoration supervised by Francis Ford Coppola, and Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center, a program of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive featuring rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio; the screening will be followed by an onstage conversation between Steven Jenkins of the Bob Dylan Center and Elvis Costello!