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Posted: August 2, 2024

“SUPER 70MM STAR TREK 60th ANNIVERSARY SERIES” AT THE FINE ARTS THEATRE BEAMS FIRST SIX STAR TREK FEATURE FILMS ONTO THE BIG SCREEN

On Labor Day Weekend, the historic Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills CA celebrates the six-decades-long enduring cultural impact of Star Trek with a “Super 70MM Star Trek 60th Anniversary Series” screening of the first six motion pictures featuring the Original Series cast members William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig. 

Starting on Friday, August 30th through Sunday, September 1st, the “Super 70MM Star Trek 60th Anniversary Series” marks the 1964 production of the original “Star Trek” pilot episode that eventually became known as The Original Series.

Launching with 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture directed by Academy-Award winner Robert Wise, the series will also unspool 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1984’s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – celebrating its 30th anniversary this year! – 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, 1989’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In honor of this unprecedented event, the Fine Arts Theater will screen ultra-rare 70MM prints of Star Trek II-VI, as well as presenting the restored “Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director’s Edition” in 4K Digital.

In addition to bringing these spectacular journeys into the far reaches of time and space back to the big screen, the Fine Arts Theatre will be hosting several of the talented and integral creative forces behind the legendary theatrical series.

Guests confirmed at press time include:
• Adam Nimoy, son of Leonard Nimoy and director of For The Love of Spock documentary;
• Director/co-screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home and The Undiscovered Country);
• Star Robin Curtis (“Saavik,” The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home);
• Star Catherine Hicks (“Dr. Gillian Taylor,” The Voyage Home);
• Executive Producer Ralph Winter (The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country;
• Producer Steven-Charles Jaffe and Score Composer Cliff Eidelman (The Undiscovered Country).

When director Richard Pearce heard Cliff Eidelman's music playing one morning on KCRW, he had his producers call Eidelman, that afternoon, to offer him the HBO film Dead Man Out (1988) which earned him a nomination for an Ace award.

Within a year of completing his first film score he was approached by director Robert Young to score his epic drama of WWII, Triumph of the Spirit. It was 1989 and Eidelman was just 24. The score was impressive and deeply moving, dramatically capturing the story of survival against all odds in a German concentration camp. So much so that it has caught the attention of many conductors since its composition and been performed by numerous orchestras. Eidelman created a suite from the score that was performed in June 2003 by The Los Angeles Master Chorale under the direction of Grant Gershon for their final concert at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion prior to moving to Disney Hall.

Although he is known foremost as a composer, Eidelman has conducted all of his film scores. He has conducted The Metropolitan Orchestra of London, The Munich Symphony and Chorus, Unione Musicisti Di Roma and Chorus, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Seattle Symphony Orchestra and many first call pick up orchestras for his film scores. The recognition he garnered prompted Varese Sarabande Records to pursue Eidelman for conducting projects. On two recordings, he conducted works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Walton, Rozsa and Rota.

As one of the youngest composers to score a feature film, Eidelman has amassed an impressive body of work from film to the concert hall. He has created symphonic scores, musically captured the epic proportions of faith and despair, the whimsies of comic entertainment, and the intimacies of the human heart with a lone guitar, a one hundred piece orchestra, a solo piano and every formation in-between. Experience has given him an ease and maturity that allows his creativity to find the musical heart and vocabulary of intimate and epic films, as well as concert pieces and songs. 

Eidelman’s breakthrough came with his score Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), a powerful score that elicited a great deal of attention and acclaim. By the age of 24, Eidelman had composed a number of epic symphonic scores including the Holocaust drama Triumph of the Spirit (1989) and Christopher Columbus (1992). Soon after the release of Triumph of the Spirit, legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith took a real interest in Eidelman’s career. In an interview in 1999, he commented “Cliff Eidelman is a great talent with amazing potential.”

Some of his film scores include: The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (2005), He’s Just Not That Into You (2009), One True Thing (1998), Ocean of Light: Dolphins VR (2024) PGA nomination for innovation, Crazy People (1990), Delirious (1990), Untamed Heart (1992), Leap of Faith (1992), A Simple Twist of Fate (1994), Now and Then (1995), the highest rated HBO film If These Walls Could Talk (1996),Witness Protection (1999), An American Rhapsody (2001), the IMAX film Ocean Men (2001), Harrison’s Flowers (2001), Sexual Life (2004), Open Window (2006), Big Miracle (2012), Being Dolphin (2018) and The 100% (2019) winner of “Best VR Film” at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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