Back from the Aero and seeing Carmen Jones but not Porgy and Bess. They cancelled that screening but not really telling anyone in advance. The reason they gave was rights issues, but we pretty much know that the Gershwin estate has allowed these one-off screenings - when I pressed one of the employees further, I got the impression that they'd never quite made the deal with the fellow (who I know well) who owns the one and only showable print. He's a fairly sickening person now and then, but the theater should never have announced this without having the deal set. We did hear that they'd run a little of Exodus and that the color and print are great. I'm a bit concerned only because of what Carmen Jones looked like this evening, which I'll go into in greater detail in the notes - it was a terrific print, perhaps recently struck but either the print wasn't timed correctly and had too much yellow put in, or the projector lamp is biased towards yellow - you could see clearly that all the color was there, and could have been perfect - so it's one of those two things. I checked the DVD when I got home and the color has much less yellow and the proper amount of blue and looks fantastic and perfect. Of course, tonight's showing rather looked like the prints of today's films that are all pumped with yellow.
