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Christopher Nolan to direct WWII film "Dunkirk", shot in IMAX 65mm

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Inferno313

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Ashhong said:
I have absolutely faith in Nolan and will be there day one for this, but man the trailers do absolutely nothing for me. Saw it again before WW and it just feels so poorly edited.
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How does it feel poorly edited? I can understand not being into the subject material, or something, but these trailers have been cut quite nicely.
 
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DMczaf

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Beer Monkey

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the teaser playing before 70mm Wonder Woman screenings was fucking anxiety inducing. Can't wait.
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Wonder Woman was finished in 2K, why are they even doing that?

I made the mistake of going to Aliens: Covenant in IMAX. I could count the pixels (the movie is 858p scope ratio).

Coincidentally I'll be seeing Dunkirk (4K DCP) on the same screen.
 
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DMczaf said:
There was no conversation, he was just replying to Kris's tweet where he said we still have Nolan and Bigelow to come.

It's not like that's him agreeing to anything he said previously.
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You and I know any and all positive buzz about Dunkirk is just studio talk! Can't trust it!
 
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Inferno313 said:
How does it feel poorly edited? I can understand not being into the subject material, or something, but these trailers have been cut quite nicely.
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Can't really explain it. There's just no flow to the majority of them. The scenes are quickly cut and just doesn't do it for me from a trailer standpoint. I have no problems with the subject matter, and as I said, will be there day 1 for Nolan. I just don't think the trailers are doing a very good job at selling
 
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zsynqx said:
Edgar Wright seal of approval.

https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute/videos/1667135453328607/

At around 7:20 he is asked what films he's looking forward to most for the rest of the year He answered by saying there are two films he's seen, that are yet to release, which are both great.. One is set in WW2...
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Trixxstrr said:
Run time of 1 hr 47 min confirmed!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/he...olans-shortest-film-directorial-debut-1015366

Surprising, but I'm quite happy with it.
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Yeah!
 
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Sweeney Tom

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I'm extremely here for films not going longer than they need to (see also Baby Driver being under 2 hours and Dark Tower apparently being 90 minutes)

No Transformers film should be 2.5 hours, and frankly we need less of that kind of length, not more. Well done, Nolan
 
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Iceman said:
When are tickets expected to go on sale? Gotta get my perfect IMAX seats for opening night.
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According to the commercial, tickets go on sale this Friday, the 23rd.

Ashhong said:
Kind of short no? Compared to his last few
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Yep.

All of Nolan's studio event films have been on the long side (not that it has hurt him any at the box office). The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the final chapter in his blockbuster Batman trilogy, ran two hours and 44 minutes; The Dark Knight (2008) was two hours and 32 minutes long; and Batman Begins (2005) ran two hours and 20 minutes.

Nolan's mind-bender Inception ran two hours and 28 minutes. Hitting theaters in mid-July 2010, the movie earned $825 million worldwide.

The Prestige (2006) was two hours and 10 minutes long, while both Insomnia (2002) and Memento (2000) were under two hours, clocking in at one hour and 58 minutes and one hour and 53 minutes, respectively.

Following, the first film Nolan directed, was just one hour and nine minutes long. The neo-noir crime drama was shot entirely on 16mm stock and was a favorite on the festival circuit, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Slamdance Film Festival.
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Messofanego

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Shorter than 2 hours makes total sense considering Nolan has talked about pacing this as a pure survival thriller rather than a war film. Plus his best movies are around 2 hours, so that's encouraging. Baby Driver was 1hr53min. I'm guessing not having much dialogue also plays a part in that.
 
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Sweeney Tom said:
I'm extremely here for films not going longer than they need to (see also Baby Driver being under 2 hours and Dark Tower apparently being 90 minutes)

No Transformers film should be 2.5 hours, and frankly we need less of that kind of length, not more. Well done, Nolan
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I agree wholeheartedly. I'm excited at the brisk pace of this and the possibility of a compact Episode VIII. All three of Rian Johnson's previous films are under 2 hours long.
 
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http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=16766&start=5770

Interview quotes

LWL: What did Warner Bros. think about a film which de-emphasises characters and context?

Nolan: The studio were in fact very supportive of the visceral nature of this type of storytelling. While the subject matter is obviously completely different, and there had to be a real reverence for reality, they have had great success with films like Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity and George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road — these are narratives that just throw you into a situation. They create tension and suspense through he concept of immediacy. So in that sense, they had a strong frame of reference for the type of grammar I wanted to use for this film. We tried to be very true to a subjective POV. I felt if we could give the audience the sensation of being there and seeing the things that they would have seen and having the information that they would have had, that get very important for the way we were trying to tell the story. This is sensory cinema. This is about being on the beach, not back in the offices in Whitehall watching Generals pushing things around a map. It's experiential storytelling.

LWL: Have you found that withholding information is the essence of screen suspense?

Nolan: One of the most frightening things about being involved in the Dunkirk evacuations was not knowing what's going on, not knowing if there was a plan, not knowing if you could ever get back home. It's one thing to be out there in a line suffering attacks or being bombed by stukas, it's another thing if you know there's a a very definite moment when you're going to get picked up and sent to safety. It's all the more daunting and nightmarish to have no idea — to be lost. There are areas on the beach where the hierarchies broke down, and there were others where it was extremely important in helping everyone to maintain focus. That inability of the individual soldier to have an impression of wha tis going on around them is extremely important, and you have to give the audience that same sense.
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zsynqx said:
Edgar Wright seal of approval.

https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute/videos/1667135453328607/

At around 7:20 he is asked what films he's looking forward to most for the rest of the year He answered by saying there are two films he's seen, that are yet to release, which are both great.. One is set in WW2...
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FYI, the other film he's talking about - the one "set in space" - could presumably be Star Wars Episode 8. Especially considering Wright is good friends with Rian Johnson, and there's been a cut of the film kicking around for a while now. I'm sure by now he's shown it to members of his inner circle.

Only other option is Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. But if that was the case, Wright probably would have mentioned Star Wars when asked what he was looking forward to for the rest of the year.

Either way, hype. Especially for Dunkirk.
 
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Guzim

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http://www.adweek.com/tv-video/christopher-nolan-2017-playboy-interview/

“We have a very good projector here at the house. I’ve shown our four kids movies since they were a very young age. They’ve watched the silent version of Ben-Hur, and they all wound up seeing 2001 for the first time when they were three or four years old. I’ve run Blade Runner just once because it’s a little more grown-up and the kids are spread out in age.”

“I showed them Citizen Kane when they were pretty young, and they still complain about it. They know that it winds me up to complain about Citizen Kane. They know a lot about movies and have a good grounding in film history. I did have an awful moment when I said, “Maybe they’re all going to be film critics.”
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Anyone here live in or near Nashville?
http://www.tennessean.com/story/insider/events/2017/06/22/advance-screening/103114298/#/
 
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