from the 35mm/70mm/IMAX/Digital...-they've-got-it-covered dept.
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
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @03:11PM (6 children)
Aren't these like Super Hero movies? Do you really need to see another one?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @03:22PM (1 child)
There's a difference. The special effects in WW2 movies are less cool because there were no flying exosuits and magic hammers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @03:57PM
WW2 did have a really big fuckin' gun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 07 2017, @05:35PM
Historically, this is more like Titanic than Saving Private Ryan.
Not sure how many silly love stories he'll put in to gloss over the fact that overwhelmed young men flee or die, and the Nazis win...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @08:25PM (2 children)
Unlike superheroes, WW2 actually happened, dipshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:25PM (1 child)
Try again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:46PM
OK:
Unlike superheroes, WW2 actually happened, dipshit.
Yup, still true.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday July 07 2017, @04:00PM (4 children)
I worked at Disney World when the movie "Tron" came out, and they had a free 70mm pre-release screening for employees, in a small theater with a huge screen. I've never seen such a large, clear, sharp picture (the sound was incredible, as well). Far better than digital movies I see at the local theaters, they might as well be DVDs.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @04:57PM
Uh, are you sure you aren't nostalgic about a false memory? Tron was incredibly grainy, which becomes especially apparent when seen on a large screen. Lisberger was clueless about how to film the thing without glaringly obvious visual artifacts, and he used gratuitous sound effects to cover up his mistakes. Any time the screen flashes for no reason or random objects appear for no reason, he threw in some video game noises to make it seem intentional. If Tron were not science fiction in a setting where strange stuff is normal, everyone who saw it would have been panning the truly awful production value.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:21PM (2 children)
You don't even know what you're talking about.
1. It wasn't 70mm
2. 35mm blown up to 65mm looks like shit
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)
Unpossible, I find grainy tits irresistible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @07:08PM
They haven't built a circuit that could hold Tron's cock in his pants.
Tron and Yori deleted love scene [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 07 2017, @05:54PM (1 child)
This high res is going to look really great on the cam torrents
I'm 50% convinced that studios like 3D gimmick solely because it makes it more difficult to capture cams of movies.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:11AM
Cam torrents or rather duplications are crappy to not make watching them enjoyable. But they will work as a complete story spoiler. Better to not watch at all..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @06:45PM (1 child)
...is 70 mm across.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 09 2017, @06:15AM
As the nitpicker on duty: there being no other 70mm releases wider than this one, it is (one of) the widest.
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