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Christopher Nolan's New Film Dunkirk is Being Projected on 70mm Film in 125 Theaters

posted by martyb on Friday July 07 2017, @03:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the 35mm/70mm/IMAX/Digital...-they've-got-it-covered dept.

Fnord666 writes:

Director Christopher Nolan has made no secret of his preference for film over digital capture and projection, but his latest project Dunkirk is going to represent something of a high-water mark. According to Variety, the World War II drama will be projected on 70mm film in 125 theaters, topping the 100 theaters that showed Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight back in 2015. That makes it the widest 70mm release in 25 years.

The film, which chronicles the evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, France, represents Nolan's most ambitious use of film formats to date. While he's utilized IMAX film cameras for sequences in films like The Dark Knight and Interstellar, with Dunkirk Nolan shot the entire film on a combination of IMAX 65mm and traditional 65mm film. The latter format has seen a bit of a mini-renaissance lately, with Paul Thomas Anderson also using it for The Master.

[...] Which format is the one, true Dunkirk? Nolan is known for relentlessly checking the quality of his films across the different distribution mediums, but in this case we're talking about a film that was shot natively on two different 65mm formats. The ultimate expression of Nolan's vision is no doubt the IMAX 70mm, with the traditional 70mm presentation running right behind.

Source: The Verge

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:21PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:21PM (#536188)

    70mm pre-release screening

    You don't even know what you're talking about.

    Because of the many special effects, Disney decided in 1981 to film Tron completely in 65-mm Super Panavision (except for the computer-generated layers, which were shot in VistaVision and both anamorphic 35mm and Super 35 which were used for some scenes in the "real" world and subsequently "blown up" to 65mm).

    1. It wasn't 70mm
    2. 35mm blown up to 65mm looks like shit

    a large, clear, sharp picture

    Unlikely. The only parts that were clear and sharp were 20 minutes of computer animated scenes using bright solid colors and simple geometric shapes. Maybe you should go back and watch the rest of the movie, and this time, look at Yori's face instead of staring at her tits.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 07 2017, @05:35PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 07 2017, @05:35PM (#536190) Journal

    watch the rest of the movie, and this time, look at Yori's face instead of staring at her tits.

    Unpossible, I find grainy tits irresistible.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @07:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @07:08PM (#536222)

      They haven't built a circuit that could hold Tron's cock in his pants.

      Tron and Yori deleted love scene [youtu.be]