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The 11-mile long, 600 lbs IMAX print of ‘OPPENHEIMER’
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I didn’t realize imax was still film. I figured it went digital with everything else.
70mm film to be exact
I’ve not really been into films but recently I’ve started to pay more attention to directors and screen writers.
I really want to watch Oppenheimer as it interests me but I really really want to watch it on 70mm IMAX, I am lucky enough to love 6 miles away from one and I don’t know if it will be that good or if the marketing team has done a hell of a job.
I’ve been watching videos and reading up about IMAX and cinematography. Every showing is booked up for the first week that I checked. Even the 7am showings.
How good is 70mm imax
70mm is the equivalent of shooting 18k digitally
It'll be really hard to know without seeing it in both formats... I will for sure be doing IMAX since I live close to one using this format.
15/70mm film to be exact. IMAX 15/70mm is different to standard 5/70mm you would get in a normal cinema.
There’s only a handful of IMAX theatres in the world that can play this format. Most of them are digital.
Yeah I'm stoked...two theaters play in 70mm format near me.
How do you even find that out?
https://www.insider.com/theaters-where-you-can-see-oppenheimer-in-imax-70mm-2023-7#:~:text=But%20to%20truly%20see%20Nolan's,full%20list%20of%20their%20locations.
Oh, neat :) Thanks.
Our local one did, but I guess not all. It's a shame, you used to be able to watch the film being wound through windows
You can still do it through Linux, if you know the right commands..
Simply redirect standard output to the projector's file descriptor.
I can honestly say I do not have any Windows in my house.
Yeah, that was pretty cool to see growing up.
Christopher Nolan is known for his love of film over digital.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dark-knight-rises-chris-nolan-digital-335514/
there are both, the top end is still film though as far as I understand
Digital still can’t match 70mm IMAX. In fact, IMAX film is even higher resolution than regular 70mm as the film runs through horizontally rather than vertically so more space is used for the image.
But a lot of it has moved digital. IMAX has special laser projectors. They just are not as good. Also, there is a lot of LieMAX (smaller theaters given IMAX branding) that are pretty well all digital.