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Author Topic: Dunkirk (2017) 5/70mm Version Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-02-2017 03:06 PM                        Agreed completely. The short answer is that there was a major dispute and debate within the German leadership as to whether to try to annihilate the BEF totally, or let them go and concentrate their resources elsewhere. Göring wanted complete annihilation, but a group of Wehrmacht commanders led (in the political sense) by Rundstedt favored letting the British go, because their immediate objective was to capture France, and having to fight almost half a million British and French soldiers making a last stand would have made achieving that more difficult than letting them go. The upshot of this was that Hitler was issuing contradictory orders throughout, Göring threw everything he had at the British from the air (a sense of which was given in the movie), but the German ground troops largely backed off and waited.  |  IP: Logged Chris Markiewicz Expert Film Handler Posts: 209 From: Glenaviegh, County Tipperary, Ireland Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-03-2017 10:12 AM                     CINEMA - Grand Lake, Oakland CA AUDITORIUM - 1 FORMAT - 5/70 Excellent presentation as usual at Grand Lake (thanks Stephan!), correctly masked. Only flaw was the hot spot from the silver screen. I liked the storytelling and the shifting points of view; I thought that Zimmer's soundtrack was overpowering. I'm glad I gout to see it on film.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-03-2017 12:24 PM                     Cinema: LOOK Cinemas, Dallas Screen: #1, Evolution - Seats D9 & D10, $18 per ticket for a 1:30pm show, ouch. Format: 5-perf 70mm, DTS/DataSat/FotoKem/ATI? 5.1 digital sound Presentation Quality: Very good, but we probably sat a row or so too close. I'll remember to try rows E or F next time. Movie Rating: 3 stars out of 4 Apologies for posting this a week later than intended, but things have been pretty busy lately at work and home. My girlfriend and I took a day off work July 25 to drive to Dallas for a film-watching binge of Dunkirk in both 5/70mm and 15/70mm formats. We might have checked out the dome-screen IMAX version over in Fort Worth if we had enough time. The dramatic quality of the movie was good, but also pretty different. The non-linear story telling method isn't going to go over well with everybody, especially anyone who insists on multi-tasking with their phone throughout watching a movie. The non-linear technique isn't as clever in this movie as it was with Memento. Dunkirk captures only a very tiny amount of the entire Dunkirk saga, with most of it concentrated on the beach evacuation. There are many other elements to the historical story. Other directors might have turned the tale into a CGI cartoon to literally show hundreds of thousands of troops and dart from one battle front to another, reducing every story point into emotion-less shorthand to compartmentalize into a conventional 2-hour program. So, I think it is to Nolan's credit that he had the cameras follow a few characters through the ordeal and leave all the other stuff to the history books. The movie doesn't get bogged down with actors passing off exposition as dialog in conversations that would never happen in reality. Image quality: the print looked flawless. It was very steady and not a speck of debris was seen on screen. The reel change cue marks were a little unusual looking, but kind of cool to see. The only nits I had to pick with this show was the movie's cinematography. Even though Hoyte Van Hoytema filmed all of this movie in 65mm some of the footage reminded me of his mixed bag of work on Interstellar. This movie is an improvement. But there is still a lot of dark and very low depth of field shots in this show. I felt some shots were framed too tight for the 5/65mm frame. And I felt some shots should have been sharper according to what 70mm film and great optics can yield. Sound quality: it was decent. The trailers (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Justice League, Bladerunner: 2049) were played at low volume levels. The volume and dynamics kicked up a good bit for the feature. I would have liked more sub-bass (like thump you in the chest sub-bass). I thought Emma Tomiak might be running the 70mm at LOOK, but she told me via FB messenger she was running the 5/70mm show over at Studio Movie Grill Arlington. Dan Lyons was running the show at LOOK. We ended up not having time to hang out after the show; my girlfriend had to schedule a radio show at her work and needed to log in to some free WiFi at Starbucks nearby. Then we had to get over to the Cinemark 17 to watch the 4:50pm IMAX film show. Next time we'll probably have more time to visit after the show. I'm hoping Murder on the Orient Express will have 70mm prints and that LOOK gets a print.  |  IP: Logged Gary Meyer Film Handler Posts: 20 From: Berkeley, CA/ USA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 08-04-2017 10:57 AM                        Read about a 70mm IMAX screening of Interstellar gone wrong https://eatdrinkfilms.com/?s=interstellar  |  IP: Logged

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