http://variety.com/2015/film/news/chistopher-nolan-mark-rylance-movie-1201662561/


Christopher Nolan to Direct Action Thriller ‘Dunkirk’ For Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE)


Justin Kroll
Film Reporter @krolljvar

Christopher Nolan looks to be headed to France during World War II for his next project.

Sources tell Variety that Nolan will direct “Dunkirk” from his own original screenplay as his next project. Insiders say the yet-to-be cast unknowns will lead the cast, but that Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy are currently in talks to join the ensemble.

Nolan will also produce the film with his longtime producing partner Emma Thomas.

The story is set during the legendary evacuation of the northern French city during WWII. Nolan and his casting department recently began testing teenagers in London for lead roles, but the director also wanted to nail down some choices for the few adult roles in the film before the holiday.

“We are thrilled to be continuing our collaboration with Christopher Nolan, a singular filmmaker who has created some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful films of all time,” Greg Silverman, President, Creative Development and Worldwide Production said. “‘Dunkirk’ is a gripping and powerful story and we are excited to see Chris, Emma and their cast realize it on the big screen.”

Warner Bros. has dated the film for July 21, 2017. The large-scale production will be shot on a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large format film for maximum image quality and high impact immersion. Shooting will begin in May using many of the real locations of the true-life events, which form the background for the story.

Rylance, who received a Golden Globe nomination for “Bridge of Spies,” will next rejoin Steven Spielberg in “The BFG,” slated for 2017. He is repped by Hamilton Hodell.

Hardy, who is repped by CAA, can currently be seen in Fox and New Regency’s “The Revenant” while Branagh most recently helmed “Cinderella” for Disney.

Im surprised there is no apparent sci-fi angle this time, interstellar probably burned him out.

Gonna be interesting if he can pull the emotion needed for a WWII film, which is something he's not known for

back.

This, Batman v. Superman, Rogue One and the next PTA film are all gonna be shot and presented on 70MM

But Dunkirk says 65MM Large Format, so it should be at 2.20:1 , which I'm fine with. (That's the same aspect that 1977's Star Wars had in 70MM.)

Batman v. Superman = 1.44:1 in Imax, 2.35:1 in digtal? So not all shot on 65MM - think Batman TDK adding top/bottom area but composed to be shown on 2.35:1

Rogue One: Also 2.35:1

>and the next PTA film are >all gonna be shot and presented on 70MM

So if your fine watching films in a multiplex with extra masking and/or blank areas on the screen then more power to you. You'll likely see little improvement unless your at a house with real 70mm equipment and a screen wide enough to see it.

Batman v. Superman.

Those will be 2.35:1 and 2.20:1 so they'll fill your local multiplex much better than QT's H8 which is a stoopidly wide 2.76:1.

Even Star Wars TFA at 2.39:1 had masking issues when I saw it (because the multiplex's don't have curtains or basic masking systems anymore. And the usher isn't going to get on at 30 foot ladder to add top masking by hand.)

Shit will be beautiful regardless.

As long as it's not 4:3 (1.33:1) I'm good.

>As long as it's not 4:3 (1.33:1) I'm good.

Academy ratio is fine if your seeing it on an academy screen.

There's just very few screens to see truly wide or tall films at anymore, so I hate when film makers start fucking around.

Literally anything shot on IMAX, I see on a real IMAX.

But I get your beef. 1.44:1 that's not IMAX is just not cinematic to me. That shit was for TV back in the day and they used that aspect ratio in pan and scan/TV version of movies and it pissed me off.

>the next PTA film
>gonna be shot and presented on 70MM

Haven't seen anything on this yet. PTA got the ball rolling on this shit with the first 70mm joint in almost two decades. I guess QT is getting more credit cause he kicked in the door and got it in way more theaters...

I remember the ArcLight in LA was showing Inherent Vice in 70MM and ZooTown specifically said that it made the slow push ins at points jarring since it was shot in 35MM.

Alright, thanks. I'll keep my eyes peeled for that shit.

I don't really get the point of upconverting native 35mm for 70mm presentations, but I guess it was pretty common in the 70s. I saw Inherent Vice presented on 35mm film and it had a great feel.

The Master in pure 70mm projection, however, was probably the best looking thing I've ever seen in a theater.

and nolan hasnt let me down yet

Thought for sure it would be some massive sci-fi movie. Im a History major and HUGE World War II buff so im excited to see what he does with this. I will admit Nolan is not the best at shooting gun-action or action scenes in general(thought it was the only weak spot in Inception) but im excited so how he has improved.

http://screencrush.com/rumor-dunkirk-teaser-suicide-squad/

Christopher Nolan is still in production on Dunkirk, a new drama that reunites the director with Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy to recount the riveting true story of the famous evacuation of Allied forces during World War II. Although the film doesn’t hit theaters until next July, a new rumor suggests that we may see the first teaser for Nolan’s latest as soon as this week — and you don’t have to stretch your imagination very far to figure out where it might pop up.

The rumor originates at TrailerTrack (via Heroic Hollywood), which claims that the first teaser for Dunkirk will hit theaters this weekend with Suicide Squad. That makes some sense as Warner Bros. is handling the release of both films, and thanks to his Dark Knight trilogy, there’s a sizable overlap between fans of Nolan and fans of WB’s DC universe.

12 months out from release may seem a bit early to reveal a teaser, but WB debuted the first teaser for Interstellar in December 2013, almost a full year before that film hit theaters in November 2014. The studio took a similar approach to his Batman films, with the first teasers premiering about a year ahead of each film’s respective release.

And since Nolan has been in production on Dunkirk since late May, he probably has enough footage to throw a solid teaser together — if it even features actual footage. Who knows.

Suicide Squad hits theaters this Friday, August 5, which may or may not also be the day that we see the first teaser for Dunkirk. We’ll find out soon enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM9BWtppzko

Love that Warner Bros leaves Nolan the f**k alone and just lets him make whatever he wants, unlike other movies.

WB gets in it's own way so much that even with all the clout Nolan has he's gonna get fucked eventually.

Not a huge Nolan fan but I love the fact that he gets studios to let him shoot and exhibit his shit on crazy formats like 70mm IMAX film (which apparently this will show in as well). Saw Interstellar in that format and it was glorious...

I'm intrigued by this shit tho.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/dunkirk-christopher-nolans-70mm-imax-footage-rogue-one-showtimes-1201752801/

Whenever Christopher Nolan has a summer blockbuster on the horizon, Warner Brothers often finds a way to screen select IMAX footage ahead of the year’s big Christmas blockbuster. Fans got to see some of the first footage from “The Dark Knight” before “I Am Legend” back in 2007, while “The Dark Knight Rises” opening airplane sequence was screened before “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” four years later. It looks like Warner Bros. is keeping with tradition, as seven minutes of Nolan’s “Dunkirk” will be attached to select “Rogue One” screenings.

READ MORE: Christopher Nolan Reportedly Releasing ‘Dunkirk’ Two Days Early on 35mm and 70mm

As reported by /Film earlier today, the seven-minute long “Dunkirk” prologue will screen ahead of the “Star Wars” blockbuster at 70mm IMAX locations in 2D. The bad news is that means it will only be showing in a handful of theaters across the country. Cinephiles in Los Angeles, Alabama and Iowa are in luck, while those in New York City will have to wait a little bit longer. It remains to be seen if the footage will screen in digital IMAX theaters, though we wouldn’t count on it knowing Nolan’s love for celluloid.


Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and James D’arcy star in “Dunkirk,” which Nolan also wrote. Check out the locations where the footage will screen below. The film opens nationwide July 21, 2017.

The following theatres will be playing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in IMAX 2D on IMAX 70mm projection (please note this list is subject to change).



Alabama

IMAX, US Space & Rocket Center

IMAX Dome, McWane Center



California

AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19 & IMAX – Universal City

Esquire IMAX – Sacramento

Hackworth IMAX Dome, The Tech Museum



Florida

IMAX Dome, Museum of Science & Industry



Iowa

Blank IMAX Dome, Science Center Iowa



Indiana

IMAX, Indiana State Museum



Minnesota

IMAX Theatre, Minnesota Zoo



Missouri

OMNIMAX, St. Louis Science Center



Pennsylvania

Tuttleman IMAX, The Franklin Institute



Texas

Omni Theatre Fort Worth Museum of Science & History



Canada

Kramer IMAX, Saskatchewan Science Centre

I wanna see this when it comes out

nm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-eMt3SrfFU

Yeah this is gonna be great

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This feels like ideal material for him but Im not exactly sure why. Also, is Tom Hardy not the lead?

“The film is told from three points of view. The air (planes), the land (on the beach) and the sea (the evacuation by the navy). For the soldiers embarked in the conflict, the events took place on different temporalities. On land, some stayed one week stuck on the beach. On the water, the events lasted a maximum day; And if you were flying to Dunkirk, the British spitfires would carry an hour of fuel. To mingle these different versions of history, one had to mix the temporal strata. Hence the complicated structure; Even if the story, once again, is very simple.”

“This is an essential moment in the history of the Second World War. If this evacuation had not been a success, Great Britain would have been obliged to capitulate. And the whole world would have been lost, or would have known a different fate: the Germans would undoubtedly have conquered Europe, the US would not have returned to war,” he said. “It is a true point of rupture in war and in history of the world. A decisive moment. And the success of the evacuation allowed Churchill to impose the idea of a moral victory, which allowed him to galvanize his troops like civilians and to impose a spirit of resistance while the logic of this sequence should have been that of surrender. Militarily it is a defeat; On the human plane it is a colossal victory.”

The French Premiere mag interview: http://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/EXCLU-Christopher-Nolan-et-ses-collaborateurs-revelent-7-infos-sur-Dunkerque

Playlist link on it: http://theplaylist.net/christopher-nolan-talks-triptych-storytelling-dunkirk-20170228/

My brother saw it last night in front of Guardians Vol. 2 and said it gave away way too much. Besides it drops in three months time.

Copped IMAX 70MM tix even though I'm seeing it in IMAX 70MM tomorrow.

http://www.nolanfans.com/2017/06/24/list-of-us-and-canada-70mm-dunkirk-locations-hidden-on-official-website/

A NolanFans user found a list of US and Canada 70mm theatre Dunkirk locations hidden in the source code on the Official Website for Dunkirk. Yesterday we tweeted that the ticket sales for 70mm showings of Dunkirk have been pushed back to July 5, but until now nobody knew which locations would actually have 70mm.

The list includes Standard 70mm (5-perf/70mm) theaters as well as IMAX 70mm (15-perf/70mm) theaters. Many of you know the difference between the two formats, but for those of you that do not, we’ll give you a brief overview.

Standard 65/70mm film has been around for well over a century. However, it wasn’t more widely or popularly used until the 1950s. Many classic films, like Lawrence of Arabia and 2001: A Space Odyssey, were filmed and presented on 70mm, but the format stopped being used by the 70s. Sometimes the format is abbreviated as 5/70 as each frame of film is 5 perforations tall and 70mm wide. That translates to 0.9 inches by 2 inches. You’ll commonly see 65mm used interchangeably with 70mm, and that’s because 65mm is the shooting format, and 70mm is the projecting format. When projected, 5/70 typically has an aspect ratio of 2.20:1.

IMAX 65/70mm film was developed by the IMAX Corporation in the late 60s. Unlike Standard 70mm, which runs vertically through a camera or projector, IMAX 70mm runs horizontally. It also uses 15 perforations per frame, as opposed to 5, thus giving it a larger picture area. Sometimes the format is abbreviated as 15/70. Its overall size is 2 inches by 2.75 inches. The format was commonly only used for IMAX nature and science documentary films, but in 2008 Christopher Nolan pioneered its use for Hollywood blockbusters on The Dark Knight. When projected, 15/70 typically has an aspect ratio of 1.44:1.

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Dunkirk was shot using both formats. Though there has been no official confirmation, it is believed approximately 75% of the movie was shot on IMAX 65mm film with the remainder being filmed on Standard 65mm film. This ratio is larger than any of Nolan’s other uses of IMAX, and Nolan’s first film shot entirely on 65mm.

So enough with the history lesson, here’s the list of theaters showing Dunkirk on 70mm:

ALBERTA
Scotiabank Chinook 16 IMAX (Calgary)
Scotiabank IMAX (Edmonton)

ALABAMA
IMAX Dome Theater (Birmingham)
US Space Center IMAX (Huntsville)

ARIZONA
AMC Westgate (Glendale)
Grand Canyon IMAX (Grand Canyon Village)
Harkins Tempe Marketplace (Tempe)
Loft (Tuscon)

BRITISH COLUMBIA
Cineplex Colossus IMAX (Langley)
Cineplex Park (Vancouver)

CALIFORNIA
AMC Burbank 16 (Burbank)
Century Daly City (Daly City)
Regal Hacienda 20 IMAX (Dublin)
ArcLight Hollywood (Hollywood)
Regal Irvine Spectrum IMAX (Irvine)
ArcLight 14 (La Jolla)
Grossmont Center 10 (La Messa)
Regal Long Beach Stadium (Long Beach)
Cinemark 18 (Los Angeles)
Landmark 12 (Los Angeles)
Regal Ontario Palace 22 IMAX (Ontario)
Sagewood Camelot (Palm Springs)
Esquire IMAX (Sacramento)
Tower Theatre (Sacramento)
AMC Mission Valley (San Diego)
AMC Metreon IMAX (San Francisco)
Cinemark San Francisco Center (San Francisco)
Century Oakridge (San Jose)
Hackworth IMAX (San Jose)
AMC Mercado (Santa Clara)
ArcLight Sherman Oaks (Sherman Oaks)
AMC Del Amo 18 (Torrance)
Cinemark Union City 25 (Union City)
AMC Citywalk IMAX (Universal City)

COLORADO
Regal Contiental (Westminster)
AMC Westminster 24 (Vancouver)

WASHINGTON D.C.
Regal Gallery Palace Stadium 24 (D.C.)

FLORIDA
Cinemark Palace (Boca Raton)
Coral Gables Art Cinema 1 (Coral Gables)
AMC Disney Springs 24 (Lake Buena Vista)
AMC Aventura (Miami)
Regal Waterford Lakes (Orlando)
AMC Veterans (Tampa)
AMC Parisian (West Palm Beach)

GEORGIA
Regal Atlantic Station (Atlanta)
Regal Mall of Georgia 20 (Buford)

IOWA
Sci Dome IMAX (Des Moines)

ILLINOIS
River East 21 (Chicago)
Keresotes Showplace Icon (Chicago)
Music Box (Chicago)
Cinemark Evanston (Evanston)

INDIANA
White River IMAX (Indianapolis)

KANSAS
AMC Town Center (Leawood)

LOUISIANA
AMC Elmwood Palace (New Orleans)

MASSACHUSETTS
AMC Boston Common (Boston)
Coolidge Corner 2 (Brookline)
Somerville 5 (Somerville)

MARYLAND
AFI Silver 3 Theatre (Silver Springs)
AMC White Marsh (Baltimore)
Cinemark Egyptian (Baltimore)
Maryland Science Center IMAX (Baltimore)

MICHIGAN
AMC Livonia (Livonia)
AMC Forum 30 (Sterling Heights)

MISSOURI
OMNIMAX (St. Louis)
Marcus Ronnies (St. Louis)

NORTH CAROLINA
Discovery Place IMAX (Charlotte)
Regal Stonecrest (Charlotte)
AMC Southpoint (Durham)

NEW JERSEY
AMC Cherry Hill (Cherry Hill)
AMC Hamilton 24 (Hamilton)
AMC Garden State (Peramus)

NEW MEXICO
Cinemark Rio 24 (Albuquerque)

NEVADA
AMC Town Sqaure (Las Vegas)

NEW YORK
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn)
Farmingdale 14 (Farmingdale)
Regal New Roc City (New Rochelle)
AMC Lincoln Square IMAX (New York)
City Cinemas East 86th St. (New York)
Cinema 1,2,3 (New York)
Village East 7 (New York)
Regal E-Walk Stadim (New York)

OHIO
Gateway Film Center 7 (Columbus)
Cinemark Valley View (Valley View)

ONTARIO
Cineplex Coliseum IMAX (Mississauga)
Cineplex Varsity 12 (Toronto)
Cineplex Colossus IMAX (Woodbridge)

OREGON
Hollywood 3 (Portland)
Regal Bridgeport (Tigard)

PENNSYLVANIA
AMC Neshaminy 24 (Bensalem)
Regal King of Prussia 15 IMAX (King of Prussia)
Tuttleman IMAX (Philadelphia)
AMC Waterfront (West Homestead)

NEWFOUNDLAND
Cineplex Banque Scotia 12 (Montreal)

RHODE ISLAND
Providence Place IMAX (Providence)

SASKATCHEWAN
Regina IMAX (Las Vegas)

TENNESSEE
AMC Thoroughbred (Franklin)
Regal Pinnacle Stadium (Knoxville)
Regal Opry Mills 20 IMAX (Nashville)

TEXAS
Studio Movie Grill 9 (Arlington)
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (Austin)
AMC Northpark 15 (Dallas)
Look 11 (Dallas)
Studio Movie Grill Royal Lane 9
Cinemark 17 IMAX (Dallas)
OmniaMAX Fort Worth (Fort Worth)
AMC Gulf Pointe (Houston)
Regal Edwards Freenway Grand Palace (Houston)
Cinemark Tinseltown (Pflugerville)
Cinemark West Plano (Plano)
Santikos Palladium 19 (San Antonio)

VIRGINA
AMC Hoffman Center (Alexandria)
AMC Tyson’s Corner (McLean)

WASHINTON
AMC Pacific Place 11 (Seattle)
Cinerama (Seattle)

WISCONSIN
Marcus Majestic Cinema of Brookfield (Waukesha)

>CALIFORNIA
>ArcLight 14 (La Jolla) <-Very small screen, felt ripped off a bit when H8ful 8 played there.

>Grossmont Center 10 (La Messa) <-Largest screen in San Diego. I'm assuming it'll be in auditorium 10 which also has gotten Atmos installed - but even on screen 1 it will be good. And tickets are capped at $10 for any showing.

>AMC Mission Valley (San Diego) <-Like poison this theater is. Stay away unless you have to hang out at this mall.

And when it shows up Netflix at the wrong aspect ratio an in low bitrate "4k" don't sound impressed.

Also - we don't have any 15/70 locations in San Diego - have to go to LA for that.

Another site with more detailed information: http://www.in70mm.com/news/2017/dunkirk/index.htm

Not all places showing it in IMAX 70MM, 70MM and 35MM are on sale yet, but it's best to check this site for when they do.

http://tickets.dunkirkmovie.com/

I don't think the Pacific Place theater is a "real" Imax screen, but the Seattle center one is for sure.

Not everything is IMAX 70MM.

Here's a definitive list of IMAX 70MM & IMAX Laser:
https://www.imax.com/news/experience-dunkirk-imax-70mm-film-and-imax-laser

>NEW YORK
>Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn)
>Farmingdale 14 (Farmingdale)
>Regal New Roc City (New Rochelle)
>AMC Lincoln Square IMAX (New York)
>City Cinemas East 86th St. (New York)
>Cinema 1,2,3 (New York)
>Village East 7 (New York)
>Regal E-Walk Stadim (New York)

Probably not, but it's pretty wild to think Brooklyn would have an IMAX screen, muchless in this location, given what the Albee Square Mall once was roughly 30 years ago. I wonder how that IMAX screen there compares to the infamous one near Lincoln Square.

Hopefully this reply doesn't derail from this post too much since I don't have much interest in the flick mentioned in this thread, but I couldn't pass up responding to the news of Brooklyn having an IMAX screen.

Alamo Drafthouse in Downtown BK is doing a 70MM print. Not an IMAX 70MM print.

Thank you for the clarity.

thanks for the heads up

Since a lot of people are confused here's a list of where to see it in the best way possible. I highly recommend traveling to one of these locations to get a truly immersive experience.

https://www.imax.com/news/experience-dunkirk-imax-70mm-film-and-imax-laser

IMAX 70MM LOCATIONS





US and Canada



Alabama

IMAX, U.S. Space & Rocket Center – Huntsville

IMAX Dome, McWane Center – Birmingham



Alberta

Scotiabank Chinook & IMAX – Calgary

Scotiabank Edmonton & IMAX – Edmonton



Arizona

Grand Canyon IMAX, Grand Canton Visitors Center – Tusayan



British Columbia

Cineplex Cinemas Langley & IMAX – Langley



California

AMC Metreon 16 & IMAX – San Francisco

AMC Universal CityWalk Stadium 19 & IMAX – Universal City

Esquire IMAX Theatre – Sacramento

Edwards Irvine Spectrum 21 & IMAX – Irvine

Regal Hacienda Crossings Stadium 20 & IMAX – Dublin

Edwards Ontario Palace Stadium 22 & IMAX – Ontario

Hackworth IMAX Dome, The Tech Museum – San Jose



Connecticut

IMAX, The Maritime Aquarium – Norwalk



Georgia

Regal Mall of Georgia Stadium 20 & IMAX – Buford



Indiana

IMAX, Indiana State Museum – Indianapolis



Iowa

Blank IMAX Dome, Science Center of Iowa – Des Moines



Maryland

IMAX, Maryland Science Center – Baltimore



Minnesota

IMAX Theatre, Minnesota Zoo – Apple Valley



Missouri

OMNIMAX, St. Louis Science Center – St. Louis



New York

AMC Lincoln Square 13 & IMAX – New York



North Carolina

The Charlotte Observer IMAX Dome, Discovery Place – Charlotte



Ontario

Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga & IMAX – Mississauga

Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan & IMAX – Woodbridge



Pennsylvania

UA King of Prussia Stadium 16 & IMAX – King of Prussia

Tuttleman IMAX, The Franklin Institute– Philadelphia



Rhode Island

Providence Place Cinemas 16 & IMAX – Providence



Saskatchewan

Kramer IMAX, Saskatchewan Science Center – Regina



Tennessee

Regal Opry Mills Stadium 20 & IMAX – Nashville



Texas

Cinemark 17 & IMAX – Dallas

Omnitheatre, Fort Worth Museum of Science & History – Fort Worth





International



Australia

IMAX, Melbourne Museum – Melbourne



Czech Republic

IMAX Theatre, Palac Flora – Prague



Thailand

KrungSri IMAX, Paragon Cineplex – Bangkok



United Kingdom

IMAX 3D, London Science Museum - London

BFI IMAX, British Film Institute – London

Vue Manchester IMAX & The Printworks – Manchester





IMAX with laser



US and Canada



California

TCL Chinese Theatres IMAX – Hollywood



Florida

Autonation IMAX, Museum of Discovery & Science



Massachusetts

Sunbrella IMAX 3D Theater - Reading



Missouri

Branson's IMAX - Entertainment Complex – Branson



Texas

IMAX, The Bullock Texas State History Museum – Austin



Toronto

Scotiabank Toronto & IMAX



Virginia

Airbus IMAX, Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center – Chantilly



Washington

Boeing IMAX, Pacific Science Center



Washington DC

Lockheed Martin IMAX, National Air & Space Museum – National Mall



International



Belgium

Kinepolis Brussels & IMAX – Brussels



France

Gaumont Montpellier Multiplexe & IMAX – Montpellier

Gaumont 15 Cinema & IMAX – Paris

Pathe La Valette & IMAX – La Valette-du-Var



Germany

Cinestar Berlin & IMAX – Berlin

Filmpalast am ZKM & IMAX – Karlsruhe

IMAX 3D, Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum – Sinsheim



Italy

UCI Cinemas Orio & IMAX – Orio al Serio



Japan

109 Cinemas Osaka Expocity & IMAX – Osaka



Korea

CGV Yongsan IMAX Theater – Seoul



New Zealand

Event Cinemas Queen Street & IMAX – Auckland



Russia

Formula Kino Kutuzovsky & IMAX – Moscow



Taiwan

Miramar IMAX – Taipei



United Arab Emirates

VOX Cinemas & IMAX – Dubai



United Kingdom

Cineworld Leicester Square IMAX – London

Cineworld Sheffield & IMAX – Sheffield

n/m

On the best IMAX in the East Coast.

Not Nolan's best, bit good God this is good. This is an experience through and through. The suspense kicks in within the first 2 minutes and never let's you go.

Not much in the way of character development, but you empathize with all of the characters as they're all about to be slaughtered.

There's some stuff in here that others are gonna try to replicate. This puts you in the shit. Only way to experience it is in 70MM IMAX.

If it's playing in IMAX 70MM, it's a must see. Seriously seek it out.

>On the best IMAX in the East Coast.

but was this the Lincoln Center spot?

>>On the best IMAX in the East Coast.
>
>but was this the Lincoln Center spot?

Yes

Will add this to the itinerary, just wish it didn't mean having to wait a week.


Also wonder how long it'll be 'til we get one here in Omaha, I'm still a little surprised the Alamo didn't come with one when it opened a little over a year ago.


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I was gonna catch it at the Alamo in 70mm but you think IMAX is worth it?

Yes. Especially considering it's only $5 more

Might have to go to Citywalk for the first time in a decade or two for this one.

All for IMAX showings, this will be the 8th.

N/M

...how self-importantly perilous his film is.

except it's not.

BOOOOM....BOOOOM. BOOOOM....BOOOOM.

this flick was two hours straight of men frightfully looking up at the sky and jumping off boats... and getting really wet. i kept waiting for real danger...real despair...something or someone in fatigues to care about in this embellished story about a "miraculous evacuation"..

none of it ever came.

the ariel/dogfighting scenes were beautifully shot though. very methodical and smart too. hardy in a spitfire calculating miles per gallon >>>> cruise in an F-14 switching to guns.

still, the antagonist was essentially a single german luftwaffe? the cropduster coming after cary grant in nbnw had more suspense than anything nolan threw at us.

i suppose brits will catch the feels for this the way murica did saving private ryan.

i keep reading reviews about the IMAX and the 70 MILLIMETERS OF MOVIE but not much about the movie being interesting or good beyond the technical stuff and the NEED to see it a certain way. why would i bother seeing it if not in 70 FEET OF IMAX or whatever?

bah.
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In terms of the historical significance? My understanding is that Hitler had half of the British army dead to rights trapped on a beach. If they weren't evacuated....The Germans probably roll into England and conquer Europe. I'm curious as to why your tone seems dismissive. Ie 'Embellished story'. Putting 'miraculous evacuation' in quotes seemingly implying that it wasn't miraculous. The Brits 'catching feels'.

No snark here....just wondering your take.

i'm saying nolan didn't make me feel any suspense or despair for scores of cornered troops. a few guys running away and getting shot in the back by a sniper two minutes into the film was about it for me.

if you read most of the reviews, they're all about, "OMG the spectacle and imagery!!!"

nolan overcompensated for his weak storytelling by having a big soundtrack and big visuals. it's basically a giant circle jerk to 70MM.

but this film, in theaters, was distressing as fuck.

maybe I'd agree with you if I had read the wiki synopsis already and watched it for the first time on my aunt's kitchen tv while making casserole.

like I said below it's not necessarily a great film but it's definitely a great movie.

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Someone else mentioned that watching this movie in our living rooms would be kinda pointless and I lean towards agreeing to this.

It's definitely an incredible and unique viewing experience in the theatre....I guess this movie is just extremely visceral. Probably sounds cliche but it's more like 'an experience' than it is 'a film'. Almost like a ride of sorts.

Another thing that occurred to me....it's basically a 90 minute version of the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. I absolutely LOVE the first 20 minutes of SPR...and kinda think the rest of the movie contradicts it's first act. Spielberg spent 20 minutes deconstructing war films and taking out the hero/villain narrative and presented ambiguous chaos. Then RECONSTRUCTED all those typical war movie tropes with waving flags and hero/villain and virtue/evil narratives. Nolan committed stronger to the same aim that Speilberg had for SPR.

In anycase....I see Dunkirk as an experiment of sorts. And I think it was successful in accomplishing what it set out to do. But again...I won't be watching this on netflix with earbuds.

Beautifully shot and incredibly intense. Some of the scenes in the various boats & ships had me ready to crawl out of my skin.

I think it's a testament to the film that I barely understood any of the spoken dialogue (due to the incredibly thick British accents) but I still had a great time watching it.

I mean it looked spectacular. But other than that it just felt kind of cold to me.

But it's worth a watch cause it's truly gorgeous

>But it's worth a watch cause it's truly gorgeous

it was basically "History Channel XD presents..."

WWII's been done to death. maybe do a film about exec order 8802 for da black crowd. or maybe not.

Cannot wait to be enveloped

How come they didn't shoot the sailboats, assuming that they were trying to help their enemies?

Oh also it's assumed Tom Hardy becomes a POW and dies?

My best guess would be allocation of resources. Remember...those planes only had about an hour of flight time plus limited ammunition. I would guess that they'd be ordered to save ammunition for the minesweepers and the rest of the bigger boats. Also, small targets harder to hit. They definitely wouldn't waste a bomb on them. And the bullets are probably best saved for air to air combat instead of shooting up a small sailboat. Their priority was probably to bomb warships and shoot down enemy planes. So wasting bullets on sailboats would make you vulnerable to Allied planes.

There seems to be alot of mystery surrounding Hitler's decision to halt the attacks. I've searched around online and there's no definitive answer that I can find. A couple theories I found: The German tank invasion of France was SO successful that the infantry fell far behind leaving the tanks without resources/fuel and troop support. The Germans figured the shallow waters of Dunkirk would keep the Brits trapped alot longer...so they thought they could afford to wait for the infantry to catch up. There's also the suggestion that Hitler thought the 400,000 Brits were doomed regardless so he could use them as bait to draw in the British Navy and inflict even more damage with the u-boats and bombers.

War buffs can correct me....but from what I can tell....Dunkirk was Hitler's second biggest mistake behind, of course, the way he invaded Russia.

Different movie but also depicting Dunkirk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijbOCvunfU

400,000 troops trapped on a beach. That's the population of a small city. Unimaginable.

Dunkirk is a technical marvel and I think it's Nolan's best precisely because it omits what he consistently fails at imo. This is basically the perfect movie suited for him.

But to be honest....that 5 minute clip I posted from 'Atonement' had a bigger impact on me than anything in the Nolan movie.

People are complaining about "not caring" and wanting backstories but I cared a lot more precisely because they had no backstory. Action dictated who these characters are. Seeing as how revealing character through exposition instead of action was my chief complaint about a large number of Nolan's movies, I was thrilled to see just how barebones he went in terms of dialogue. The movie is better for it.

The tinkering with the timelines, another Nolan obsession, pays off beautifully here too. I really can't think of a single moment in this movie that doesn't hit home or pay off nicely.

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I'd agree that this particular movie might not be 'conservative' but the Batman movies and Interstellar kinda targeted current trends in the left. The Bain takeover of Gotham most definitely referenced 'occupy wall street' and in Interstellar, the protagonist objects to his daughter's post-modernist educators who questioned the validity of the moon landing and the anti-science trends portrayed in the future.

I remember him saying on the press tour for Interstellar how mad he was that the government doesn't properly fund NASA and that we should keep moving forward in space exploration.

Given the stuff he dabbles in with Dark Knight on finding the good in humanity with the whole thing with the two boats, I'd also say not.

I screwed up and got tickets to the digital IMAX not the 70mm IMAX but the sound and vision was still super crazy effective. I haven't been that stressed out by a movie in a while. almost as if nolan got to take the bank heist scene from Dark Knight and extrapolate it out into a full feature film.

I really, really, really enjoyed this experience, but again, it could be a total flop on a home television. Almost every bit of it that I enjoyed was because I was enveloped by the screen or the plane sound effects were so loud and wonderfully mixed I felt like it was MY seat that was rattling around in a cockpit.

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and damn that was intense

i agree with some of you in that this won't translate well outside of the theater - i would probably not watch this again on a screen smaller than 50"

that being said, the tension was REAL throughout - and i LOVED that most of the main characters remained nameless throughout.. they barely knew one another (different battalions etc) and it was really something to reflect on that we (audience) barely knew them too.. we just knew the intensity of that situation..

the use of a non-linear timeline was dope too.

and again, wow at the 70mm IMAX.. totally the right format for this film

visually this was the best use of traditional film since The Master five years ago. and Nolan's setpiece prowess displays itself again; the dogfights are magnificent, but my favorite was the haunting torpedo attack of the destroyer.

I didn't mind the nameless characters -- I saw them as totems for all sides of the event. the humiliated British soldier who had just been smacked senseless by Germany and only wanted to survive. the French who were saving British lives (opening scene), with very little gratitude (sacrificing the masquerading Frenchman to save a boat full of British). and the Royal Air Force, stuck between saving themselves for the bigger battle ahead, or running out of gas to assist their stranded countrymen.

as mentioned though, the last 45 minutes are sort of a mess. lots of war cliches and empty bombast. sucks out the intensity of the first hour.

My ears hurt like I left a heavy metal show.

shit was not great. didn't care about anyone but hardy's pilot. it was essentially Nolan showing off technically. not down.

Which is exactly what Nolan was going for (and coincidentally aligns with his best strengths while mitigating his weaknesses). I certainly enjoyed it for what it was.

saw it on liemax, I know it's nowhere near as great as 70mm is supposed to be but it still was a sensory overload from start to finish. Almost too much at times actually, though that could've been the way the theater's sound was set up.

I was expecting some rah-rah Brits are the bravest stuff, and there was some of that, although Nolan threw in a bit of subtlety too (eg the young soldier's reaction to the Churchill speech). The (huge) contribution of the French was shown almost elliptically, which I fully expected. For that matter the role of any non-white soldiers was basically ignored.

Nolan has been criticized for the conservative views that sometimes emerge in his movies (TDK being the prime example), and it's definitely present here. The way the movie presents the entire operation as driven by the ingenious (white) British spirit, definitely felt like something I'd expect more from a basic Hollywood script. I lived in the UK a few years, and the people I met never struck me as being that full of their country's glory. If anything they rejoiced in making fun of themselves before you even got a chance to. But I guess Brexit voters aren't the only ones who need reassurance that yes, their country is as great as they think. Details and nuances be damned.

Still, the movie really was astounding at times, as a purely cinematic spectacle. It never lets up and gives a good idea of what survival in wartime can be like. And I really thought the faceless nature of the enemy was a homerun, right down to the way the German soldiers are shown at the end and of course the terrifying Stuka raids throughout.

Since you're basically dropped in a 'HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE' situation where motherfuckers are actually dying left and right with a relentless score behind it there's no time to delve into character motivation/history outside of survival. It was emotionally cold but it served a purpose when life is worth a bag of skittles and the haunting look in the soldiers eyes to just make it home gives you all you need to work with as an audience.

Nolan proves he's one of the best technical filmmakers out there; this is pure cinema in a way I haven't seen in a minute (probably this and Mad Max)

This shit ruined my entire Christmas.
Nigga, they paid Tom Hardy for literally 5 steps on dry land.
FUCK THIS MOVIE.
nice visuals i guess.