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Speed

(Jan de Bont, 1994)

Introduced by Schawn Belston, Senior Vice President, Creative Mastering, The Walt Disney Company

New Restoration

Keanu Reeves, Speed

“Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do?” Dennis Hopper’s psychopathic Howard Payne sums up the entire plot of Speed to cop Keanu Reeves, impromptu bus driver Sandra Bullock, and the audience in one of the 1990s’ most pared-down, straight-ahead action-thrillers. Don’t ask, just see the Oscar-winner on the big screen in this new restoration! (116 mins., 4K DCP)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Schawn Belston is joining us via Skype for this event.

More about the expert

Schawn Belston (The Walt Disney Company) has supervised the restorations of F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950), Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), and Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music (1965), among many other films. This is his fifth appearance at Cinema Revival.

Keanu Reeves, Speed

Speed, image courtesy The Walt Disney Company

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, Speed

Speed, image courtesy The Walt Disney Company

Scene from Speed

Speed, image courtesy The Walt Disney Company

Restored by 20th Century Fox.

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