A popular mainstay of our festival, the Blind Date with Nitrate invites you to a mysterious encounter with a cinematic treasure you will not forget.
“On nitrate, characters somehow move across the screen at a more lifelike pace than on regular film. It feels like you’re sharing an atmosphere with them, within reach of their conversations. This festival was the most wonderful moviegoing experience of my life. It was the closest I’ve ever felt to time travel.”
— John Lingan, The Verge, June 17, 2015
“Watching the film again on nitrate was an intoxicating experience. . . . For me, the special qualities of nitrate are most evident when light sources come into play, either natural or artificial. . . . Water, whether gushing from a fountain or flowing down a river, glistened and shimmered in sunlight.”
— Amran Vance, Silent London, May 5, 2016
“The actor’s faces glowed, and their clothing revealed a surface and depth that I had never seen on film.”
— Jonathan Schroeder, quoted in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 26, 2016
“A vintage nitrate print, struck decades ago, endows the viewing experience with another stratum of time, a kind of phantom memory.”
— Nora Fiore, The Nitrate Diva, May 13, 2015
Full program notes will be distributed after the screening.