Friday 8th July saw the start of the London Film & Comic Con down at Earls Court. Claire, Mike and Anthony where there the the opening press night and got to talk to Devon Murray (Seamus Finnigan) & Stanislav Ianevski (Viktor Krum) of Harry Potter fame, Mark Sheppard recently seen in Doctor Who, and Ricky Dean Logan, Jeffery Weissman, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thomphson of the Back to the Future Trilogy.
With a great start on day 1 at the London Film and Comic Con, Premiere Scene's Anthony Bueno, Mike Jonas and Claire Bueno were eager to continue a great run of interviews and we weren't disappointed as Brent Spiner (Star Trek) Sir Derek Jacobi (Dr Who, Gladiator), Michael Bailey Smith (The Hills Have Eyes) and Robert Knepper (Prison Break) where all gracious enough to spend a little time with us.
On Day 3 of the London Film and Comic Con Andy Oliver joined the crew Mike Jonas, Anthony Bueno and Claire Bueno to continue the fun interviewing more icons of film and television including Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica), Erin Gray (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) and Sylvia Anderson (Thunderbirds).
Back in 1985 before this wee reviewer was even walking the earth, a film premiered at the Empire Leicester Square Cinema, in front of an audience that included the likes of Princes Charles and the late Princess Diana. This film was called Back to the Future. The trilogy became one of the most iconic and influential pieces of movie making history.
25 years later and to mark the Anniversary of its release, the film was shown in the exact same location to a packed and excited cinema audience. It was as if many were experiencing Robert Zemeckis’ masterpiece for the very first time. Laughter and applause rang out during memorable scenes and killer one-liners. It was truly a time to reminisce about a film that stands the test of time better than any.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past two and a bit decades, you will know the story already. Here’s a quick reminder anyway: Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a young teenager who befriends a rather wacky scientist, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who invents a time machine.
However, during the testing of the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine and a confrontation with terrorists, Marty is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955. Here he meets his parents and causes all kinds of trouble, inadvertently attracting his mother's romantic interest away from his father! Marty must now find a way of getting his parents to fall in love and find a way back to 1985 with the help of a young 1955 Doc!
Yesterdays screening wasn’t just a “re-run” of an old worn-out print of the film, but in fact a digitally re-mastered copy. The video quality was amazing, Universal have done a magnificent job of restoring a film that is a quarter of a century old. In fact, it looks like it was film yesterday.
There is always that fine line between over processing old films, where the nostalgic quality is completely diminished but thankful Back to the Future is here in all it’s high definition glory.
Sound is equally impressive with the classic theme and Huey Lewis and the News’ “The Power of Love” and "Back in Time" tracks bringing joy to your ear canals. Not to mention the noise of the DeLorean hitting 88 miles per hour and travelling back or forward in time.
Set to hit UK screens October 1st 2010, I urge you to do whatever it takes to find a cinema that is showing Back to the Future, you won’t be disappointed! Don’t forget the trilogy is also coming out on Blu-Ray too!
