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70mm film to be exact

There’s only a handful of IMAX theatres in the world that can play this format. Most of them are digital.

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

True but you won’t lose the film roll that easy

Actually it won't. A movie on a 4k blu ray is around 80gb without additional compression. And Oppenheimer is shot on 70mm which is more like 8k resolution. Still would fit on a micro SD of course

If you can see the film print in the opening week. Christopher Nolan makes his movies in an analog way. So it is a film process all the way though except for VFX. This is one of the only opportunities to see film that was not digitally modified. Only one place in the world can make these imax 70mm film prints and they are all basically hand made. EDIT: link changed to piped link. https://piped.video/watch?v=xa1xJIgLzFk

2k digital projection is typically used in smaller theaters where the screen size is not large enough for anyone to actually see a difference.

Yeah, we all know girth is what matters.

Big and heavy means quality, don't you know?

You are in fact wrong lol. Actual film has a resolution equivalent of something like 18K.

Resolution and color reproduction is still unmatched. Plus there are a lot of things happening in the analog domain that our eyes notice as beautiful.

Same thing is true for analog vs digital music production btw

Imax film is some of the highest resolution formats we have it's like 16k resolution, and using that for a projector gets ya some really good quality.

No. This is called “15/70 Imax”. There are very very few theaters that have this. The “Imax” you’ll find at the local mall is totally different.

Check out this list. The imax 70mm ones would be reels like this one.

https://www.in70mm.com/news/2023/oppenheimer_cinema/index.htm

I was also disappointed when I checked how many true IMAX theaters the movie is playing in in the US. We have a real IMAX theater in our natural history museum in my city, but Oppenheimer won't be playing there :(

Probably not. 3 hours of uncompressed 1080p video is around 2tb. The film is closer to 16k which is 64 times more pixels than 1080p. This ain't your web rip off pirate bay.

Smaller reels that are spliced together as they're fed on the feed platter you see. My dad was a a projectionist, he'd make these up when a film arrived then break it down to ship it. I'd go on and help him as a kid.

Many. And this isn't even the footage, this is the print for the cinema.

A surprising number of films are still shot on film and then transfered to a digital intermediate for editing and later distribution. Not only the few film imax ones. I wonder if anyone is still doing their editing on film, I highly doubt it.