See the full list of dunkirk 70mm locations, learn the. Tickets for the 70mm screenings at the above locations are available now, and its the widest release for a film in the format, even more than the hateful eight. Recently, films like quentin tarantinos the hateful eight 2015 and paul thomas andersons the maste r 2012 also screened in 70mm the latter did not show in imax. These upconversions do not look anywhere as good as a movie. This is a list of imax venues which feature either 1570 mm film projectors or imax with laser projectors. Standard 70 mm theater prints were 70 mm wide, with the extra space used to accommodate the 6channel magnetic soundtracks, consisting of five fullrange channels left, leftcenter, center, rightcenter and right arrayed behind the screen, with the sixth channel providing surround effects. A man immediately responds, shut up and watch the movie. The opportunity to be involved in recreating that experience for a new generation, and of introducing. Before the full list of dunkirk 70mm locations, heres a guide to the different formats of the movie as you can see, the imax 70mm will be the best format, but the imax digital is.
Select imax theaters will be offering the imax experience featuring 15 perf 70mm film projection which combines the brightest, clearest images at almost 10 times the resolution of standard projection formats, with powerful, laseraligned digital sound and customized theater geometry to create the worlds most immersive movie experience. Thursday night, the navy pier imax operated by amc theatres reopens for business after a nearly fivemonth renovation. With so many cinemas exclusively geared towards digital content today, it remains to be seen how many in the uk will be able to play the hateful eight from a 70mm print when it opens in january. For starters, dunkirk is being touted by warner bros. Note that most of these will be temporary installations. A space odyssey in 70mm, at the leicester square theatre in london with my father. Closed since april, the theater along with the entire movie exhibition.
Around this time, in 2002, hollywood began releasing upconversions of movies in imax theaters. Which has me wondering where in the uk still has any 70mm projectors. Arclight woes with 70mm once upon a time in hollywood. See this page for hateful eight news and locations. What is 70mm film, and why is it worth seeing on the big. Navy pier unveils redesigned imax theater after summer. As it looks like the force awakens will be the last feature length movie to have any scenes shot with imax 70mm cameras abrams did the vast majority on 35mm though and the remaining imax film projectors are being phased out just four left in the uk to make way for their new digital 4k laser systems. How do i know if my imax theatre is real 70mm imax or. To dig a little deeper, we explored the past and present of 70mm with the help of douglas mclaren, the projectionist at chicagos music box theatre. Not included are imax venues with solely 2k resolution digital xenon projectors traditional 1570 mm imax locations use 70 mm film projectors, with the film running through the projectors horizontally, each frame being 15 perforations wide.