Large format film screenings in cinemas are relatively rare, because film copies are expensive and moving them around is difficult. Oppenheimer’s film copy weighs 108 kilograms.
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Christopher Nolan’s directed by Oscar winners Oppenheimer shown in Finland for the first time as a 70 millimeter film copy.
The film will be shown at Biorex Lasipalatsi starting on May 17 for two consecutive weekends.
The developer of the atomic bomb About Robert Oppenheimer there was a lot of criticism about the presentation format of the narrative film last summer.
The film has been shot ambitiously on both traditional 65 millimeter film and 65 millimeter Imax film. For the film, for example, 65 millimeter Imax black-and-white film had to be developed separately.
The film was shot on 65 millimeters, but enlarged by five millimeters for screening copies. In the extension, magnetic soundtracks are added to the film.
There are only 30 cinemas in the world that can show a 70 millimeter Imax from a film copy.
In Finland, the closest to the intended viewing format of the film during last summer’s distribution was in the Imax hall of Itäkeskus, which has a digital 4K projector. Even there, though, the fabric is lower in height than the highest Imax fabrics.
The aspect ratio of the Itäkeskus Imax screen is the most common quality, i.e. 1.9:1. Higher has a ratio of 1.43:1. Because Oppenheimer on the lowest fabrics, the image is cut slightly above and below the edge of the fabric.
Now to Finland the available 70 millimeter film copy is arguably the highest possible form of live image representation. It is the optimum towards which, for example, digital film technology has been developed. However, digital and analog cannot be directly compared.
“Film is always of a completely different nature than a digital image. It has its own atmosphere”, CEO of Bio Rex Cinemas Aku Jaakkola describes.
Showing 70 millimeter film copies is rare. In Finland, in addition to Biorex, such projectors are in permanent use at Kino Regina.
It is not a very practical way to run a film, which these days mainly run along digital lines. Oppenheimer The 108-kilogram film copy was sent to Finland in airplane cargo.
For comparison, a standard 35mm film film usually weighs around 30-40 kilograms. Oppenheimer 70 millimeter film is naturally wider.
“Holding a show like this is no longer commonplace,” says Jaakkola. He is happy that the Glass Palace still has elevators suitable for moving these heavy film copies.
After all, you don’t need a crane to move and install the film, but its use requires strength in the engine room.
But because part Oppenheimer some of the material has been filmed in Imax format, i.e. in a format with a higher aspect ratio, also in the screening of Lasipalats, footage is cut out from the top and bottom edges of some scenes.
Large size filming in the film presentation format has slightly increased in the 21st century. All or part of the large format has been described, for example Quick, No Time To Die, You do, The Master and The Hateful Eight.
It will be shown at Kino Regina in June for the first time in Finland Francis Ford Coppola The Book of Revelation. Now As a 70 millimeter film copy. The film was shot on 35 millimeter film and printed in large format.
The story was corrected on May 10 at 4:50 p.m.: Biorex and the film’s distributor corrected their information about the print of the film copy. A 70 millimeter film copy weighs 108 kilos, not 300 kilos as the story read earlier. Information about the length and price of the film copy has also been removed.
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