Celluloid Nights by Cinema Niche:The Thin Red Line

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, Dash Mihok, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, John Travolta, Jared Leto, George Clooney, Elias Koteas, John C. Reilly, John Dee Smith, Kirk Acevedo, Paul Gleeson

35 mm print screening

The team behind Cinema Niche will launch a new screenin spring of 2024. The mission of Celluloid Nights is to revive the unrepeatable experience of watching our favorite films on 35mm film, while a younger generation may have this exceptional opportunity for the first time. While cinemas now project digitally, the experience of screening a film on celluloid is quite different. For contemporary directors such as Christopher Nolan or Paul Thomas Anderson, filming is primarily a creative decision that affects how their works will appear on the big screen. Like them, Celluloid Nights celebrates the materiality of film, recognizing the uniqueness and eternal glory of film as a physical medium.

In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese advance into the Pacific theater. A group of young soldiers are brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marines. The exhausting fight for a strategically-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war form the soldiers into a tight-knit group; their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.

Ticket prize: 3900 HUF

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 1999 - Golden Bear: Terrence Malick