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Author Topic: 6-Minute The Dark Knight Rises IMAX Prologue Confirmed [But only on 70mm!] Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-05-2011 01:14 PM                     Thanks for posting this, but its already been posted then reposted by another member.  |  IP: Logged Keegan O'Brien Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Eugene, Oregon, United States Registered: Sep 2011 posted 12-05-2011 06:46 PM                     Are any of the projectionists here seeing the first six minutes on the 8th?  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-06-2011 12:02 AM                     The screening for the press on the 8th is in LA and from what I've been told the projectionist is someone from the DKP office. We'll have our print on the 9th or 10th at the latest.  |  IP: Logged Tyler Potts Expert Film Handler Posts: 159 From: Anderson, SC, USA Registered: Sep 2008 posted 12-12-2011 12:00 PM                       So who all is going where? I'm heading up to the Charlotte NC Observer Imax tomorrow night.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-13-2011 03:45 AM                     I'll be seeing it again tomorrow night. Didn't get Operation Early Bird tickets however. I'll be running the event  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 12-13-2011 05:23 PM                        Here is an interesting tidbit - I just called the Colorado Blvd Imax theatre to ask if they would be showing Mission Impossible on film. (Wishful thinking, I know) He said no, and tried to convince me that their digital presentation looks better. I told him I wasn't interested in paying more for less resolution. However, he did say that they still have their 70MM equipment in place. He said that it wouldn't be used again, except for one film next summer. I asked if it was The Dark Knight, and he said he couldn't answer that... but I'm assuming that has to be it.  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-14-2011 04:44 AM                     I wouldn't be surprised if that is true. Even just seeing 6+ minutes of IMAX footage, this movie is going to be so big next year its not even going to be close for any other film.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-06-2012 11:20 AM                     Quite frankly, I would not want a true IMAX format for an entire movie. I prefer the widescreen ratio. IMAX is great for skyscraper scenes. When I saw TDK's skyscraper scene in IMAX, that was cool. But the car chases? Give me a high res large format widescreen version and I prefer that.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-06-2012 12:31 PM                     Fundamentally, Hollywood style feature films are not really appropriate for a true 15/70mm IMAX presentation. There's two big problems: 1. image composition, 2. editorial pace. IMAX movies need loose composition with lots of head room. The main focus of attention needs to be directly ahead. Camera pans need to happen more slowly. A huge screen will exaggerate the speed of any camera pans and make stuff like shaky cam footage very difficult to watch. Likewise, IMAX movies require fewer editing cuts. Fades and dissolves are better. Hard cuts are more jarring on a giant sized screen. If you have music video style rapid-fire cuts it will make the imagery very disorienting and hard to follow. It takes a viewer a little bit of time to focus on where the action and interest is taking place on a giant screen. A bunch of 1/3 second cuts on a giant screen will leave the viewer not being able to figure out what is happening. With IMAX Digital blown up to a giant size the rapid fire cuts and tight image composition will be worsened with the blur of lower resolution.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 01-06-2012 12:42 PM                     With that said and I do agree,Chris Nolan makes very good use of the strengths Imax 15/70 can bring to a film. After watching the prologue in 15/70 I am completely sure of this. Angry with myself for missing The Dark Knight in 15/70. In other news Paul Thomas Anderson is shooting his new film in 65mm!The whole movie!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-06-2012 01:26 PM                     I think the IMAX footage in The Dark Knight was mostly well done. While the footage was edited with hard cuts many of the camera shots were held on screen for at least a few seconds. It's pretty cool that Paul Thomas Anderson is shooting The Master in 65mm. However, it will be interesting to see which theaters will show it in 70mm. The folks who made Baraka shot their new art film Samsara using Panavision's 65mm camera system. Yet no 70mm release prints are being made. Instead it was scanned at 8K and then mastered for 4K digital cinema release.  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 01-14-2012 12:19 PM                    quote: Bobby Henderson The folks who made Baraka shot their new art film Samsara using Panavision's 65mm camera system. Yet no 70mm release prints are being made. That is a bit of a shame that there are no 70mm prints being made. Tiff Lightbox #1 could certainly show the film in 70mm...the print is all they need. Even more sad is that Tiff will play Samsara in D-Cinema at the film festival in theater 2 at the Lightbox this fall.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-14-2012 06:35 PM                     quote: Bobby Henderson The folks who made Baraka shot their new art film Samsara using Panavision's 65mm camera system. Yet no 70mm release prints are being made. Instead it was scanned at 8K and then mastered for 4K digital cinema release. I installed the original film systems for the filmmaker's home screening room, and have seen parts of Samsara on his DLP system there (sadly, it's a four-letter S-word) but it does look fantastic!! I have the BR of Baraka and it too is incredible. He removed his 70mm projectors a few years ago.  |  IP: Logged Jim Henk Master Film Handler Posts: 364 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 01-16-2012 09:04 PM                     Saw the Dark Knight footage before MI last night in Irvine. Had a good time. Sorry to find out that they've got kids threading that thing now, and no dedicated projectionist, Not a lot of showmanship with the presentation either, but it looked good on the screen. Their manager said that Regal doesn't want to move the big IMAX theatres to digital until they make a better projector. He said he thought about a year. Well, that's what he said, anyway.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 02-18-2012 12:41 PM                     so I finally saw MI:GP and the prologue in 15/70 last night, I thought the prologue was pretty mediocre, but MI4... oh my god, wow, the whole Dubai skyscraper scenes had me gripping the armrests - I hate heights.  |  IP: Logged

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