Why is 70mm film good

Improve this question. I just read this: movies. In such case it would obviously make a difference to have higher resolution if such higher resolution is then screened. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Thanks for answer, I may accept it later if no other shows up. You basically supported my expectations. Probably what makes the biggest difference in perceiving the movie as "better" is the size of the screen, also the fact that it's curved.

So big that when you are watching something on the right, you actually have to move your head to see things on the left. One additional question, are there movies which were screened in IMAX but shot on 35mm? Preferably not even using the whole sensor to keep the full IMAX ratio. Would love to see some to see the difference. For some reason, I can't add another answer here, so I'm adding it as a comment.

I'm un-accepting the answer, because I just learn something I had no idea about and it seems neither you. Dunkirk has actually been shot in analog and then is again projected in analog in IMAX. That's obviously huge difference and my original question doesn't even make sense. This is why, if you saw it in IMAX, you could quite literally see every single detail in those 70mm shots.

Other theaters around the country will see the print formatted to digital beginning January 1. The Hateful Eight hits theaters with 70mm capability on Christmas Day before expanding digitally nationwide. See the complete list of cities showing the film, here. But is 70mm really that much better? And is it worth the ticket price? Have I seen a 70mm film before? How will it look when I watch it at home? Where can I see The Hateful Eight in 70mm film?

Interstellar in particular was so hotly anticipated that Paramount and Warner Brothers even went out of their way to promote theaters where it was screening in 70mm—the way Nolan had intended it to be seen. Even popcorn flicks such as Spielberg's Ready Player One have been getting in on the act. But what is 70mm? To dig a little deeper, we explored the past and present of 70mm with the help of Douglas McLaren, the projectionist at Chicago's Music Box Theatre.

Essentially, the difference between 35mm and 70mm is similar to the difference between DVD and Blu-ray, if switching from DVD to Blu-ray also made your television bigger. The wider, sharper image allows viewers to see "details in these films that you have just never, ever seen before," as McLaren puts it. He also points out that most theaters project films at a resolution of about 2, pixels, which is comparable to Blu-ray.

However, the restoration scan of the 70mm film resolution Lawrence of Arabia was scanned at about 8, pixels, "and the negative had even more information than that. There's just so much more going on in these 70mm prints than even on your Blu-ray.

But people have been shooting in 70mm for almost as long as there have been movies. It wasn't until television started stealing viewers away from Hollywood in the s and '60s that the industry recognized the benefit in bringing 70mm to the mainstream.