Celluloid Screenings
More 35mm, More 70mm, All at SIFF
Experience the way films are meant to be seen—on film!
Movies shot and projected on film provide a more natural and organic image than digital pixels. Exhibiting film is a highly skilled, labor-intensive process and our projectionists are passionate and hard at work making these movies look exceptional on our screens.
70mm:
- Finer detail and resolution
- Usually reserved for epics and spectacle films
- Cameras shoot on 65mm, then printed on 70mm for exhibition
35mm
- Most commonly used film gauge
- Was the most ubiquitous exhibition format before digital projection became popular
- Began with the highly flammable cellulose nitrate base up until the 1950s
16mm:
- Smaller than 35mm, this film stock is regarded as the economically accessible option.
- Traditional 16mm is in 4:3 apect ratio with 2 sides of perforations for projection, while Super 16mm removed one side of perforations, which can expand the aspect ratio to 16:9 and accomodate a soundtrack.
- Most 16mm projectors are portable!
Nature is a Language (16mm & 35mm)
97 min.
October 1, 2026
Presented by Mount Analogue・Art + Cinema, Nature is a Language is a program of eleven artists' films, made between 1994 -2026, exploring the possibilities of the cinematic form to represent place through time. All works will be presented on 35mm and 16mm.
The Open Road: Kikujiro (35mm)
Japan | 1999 | 121 min. | Takeshi Kitano
October 5 - 8, 2026
Seeking the mother he has never met, 9-year-old Masao forms an unlikely bond with the brash Kikujiro, a former yakuza who guides the child on a heart-warming and hilarious summer quest. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: The Hitcher (35mm)
USA | 1986 | 97 min. | Robert Harmon
October 15, 2026
On a dark and stormy night, fatigued driver Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a mysterious hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer), leading to a terrifying cat-and-mouse nightmare along the highways of the American southwest. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: Wagon Master (35mm)
USA | 1950 | 86 min. | John Ford
Opens October 19, 2026
Two adventurous horse traders are hired to lead a Mormon wagon train through southeastern Utah, forming a community of outcasts as they travel along the dusty trail in John Ford’s lyrical road poem. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: The Passenger (35mm)
Italy | 1975 | 126 min. | Michelangelo Antonioni
Opens October 26, 2026
Having swapped passports and identities with a deceased acquaintance, disaffected journalist David Locke (Jack Nicholson) discovers that the life he traded in for has connections to secret proxy wars and the international arms trade.
The Most Dangerous Game plus spooky shorts, all on 16mm
USA | 1932 | 95 min. | Ernest B. Schoedsack
October 27, 2026
The Sprocket Society and Grand Illusion Cinema present the legendary pre-Code thriller, The Most Dangerous Game, along with spooky shorts - all on 16mm film!
Nouvelles Femmes: Stolen Kisses (35mm)
France | 1968 | 91 min. | François Truffaut
October 28, 2026
Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) gains access to the hearts of Paris by becoming a detective. He’s emotionally up and down with his girlfriend Christine (Claude Jade) but the endearingly hapless fellow is instantly smitten by the elegant wife (Delphine Seyrig) of a client. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: Two-Lane Blacktop (35mm)
USA | 1971 | 102 min. | Monte Hellmann
Opens November 2, 2026
The Driver and Mechanic (James Taylor and The Beach Boy’s Dennis Wilson), with a hitchhiker in tow (Laurie Bird), race Warren Oates and his GTO across the southern United States in Monte Hellman’s masterpiece, perhaps the greatest road film ever made. Presented in 35mm.
Nouvelles Femmes: Pierrot le Fou (35mm)
France | 1965 | 110 min. | Jean-Luc Godard
November 10, 2026
A husband (Jean-Paul Belmondo) flees his shallow Paris life with the babysitter (Anna Karina), to French Riviera escapades with gangsters, stolen loot, sunny hedonism, political commentary; a charming disorder, a reflection of director Godard's and Karina’s stormy marriage. It’s truly moving when he has her gaze into our/his camera’s eyes. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: Candy Mountain (35mm)
Switzerland | 1987 | 103 min. | Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer
November 12, 2026
A mediocre musician wanders the road in search of the world's greatest, and most reclusive, guitar maker in this cult rock ‘n’ roll odyssey. Co-directed by photographer Robert Frank and Two-Lane Blacktop screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: Wild Boys of the Road (35mm)
USA | 1933 | 67 min. | William Wellman
Opens November 16, 2026
During the height of the Great Depression, two teenagers decide to alleviate their parents’ financial burden by hitting the road and hopping freight trains in this hard edged, pre-Code classic. Presented in 35mm.
The Open Road: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (35mm)
USA | 1996 | 81 min. | Mike Judge
December 3, 2026
Waking to discover their beloved television set has been stolen, dimwitted delinquents Beavis and Butt-Head leave their squalid dwellings to embark on a couch potato road trip in the hopes to finally score. Presented in 35mm.
SIFF Movie Club: The Love Witch (35mm)
USA | 2016 | 120 min. | Anna Biller
February 8, 2027
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a vivid tribute to ’60s Technicolor thrillers. Presented in 35mm.
SIFF Movie Club: Mary and Max (35mm)
Australia | 2009 | 92 min. | Adam Elliot
April 5, 2027
A chubby 8-year-old Australian girl, and an obese, adult New Yorker with Asperger's are a pair of unlikely pen pals in this clay animation feature. Presented in 35mm.
SIFF Movie Club: Midnight (35mm)
USA | 1939 | 94 min. | Mitchell Leisen
May 3, 2027
Screwball comedy doesn’t get any more effortlessly elegant and gleefully irreverent than this roulette wheel of romantic deception, gleaming with cunning wit and Continental élan. Presented in 35mm.