Why Oppenheimer Won Best Cinematography

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Christopher Nolan is famous for shooting his movies on the grand 70mm Imax format. Since the beginning of his career he has shot every single movie on analog film instead of digital. For Oppenheimer, Nolan went as far as using experimental black and white film made by Kodak, something that has never been done before. Not many movies these days are shot on the "old" analog film format because of the rise of digital cameras, however Christopher Nolan and Quentin are filmmakers who swear by analog film. Why is it that? Is it pure nostalgia? Does that mean analog is still better than digital? Or is there something bigger underlying their choice? Let's find out...
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0:00 Is analog film dead?
1:42 Analog vs Digital
4:00 Cinema or at Home?
6:00 Why Roger Deakins loves digital
7:30 The Magic of Film
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@DuCinema1 8 ай бұрын

What's your favorite Christopher Nolan movie?

@Norm_ie 8 ай бұрын

Momento & Interstellar & the dark knight all time fav's, also Dunkirk (3 narrative screenplay got me)

@ryangoslinglover397 8 ай бұрын

Tenet

@shakkaphillips2444 8 ай бұрын

Dark Knight Inception and Memento all my favs from him. Oppenheimer is my fav after those. Nolan is the 🐐

@wathsi99 8 ай бұрын

The Prestige, Memento, TDK. Those are his most tightest films, with all departments working well across the board.

@giannhs8 8 ай бұрын

My favourites are 1. Interstellar 2. Oppenheimer 3. Dunkirk 4. Inception 5. The Prestige I'm not that big on the Dark Knight trilogy

@kangaroomonkey4180 8 ай бұрын

I don’t like the film vs digital debate, because in general I hate the idea of hard rules in art. I can absolutely see why people prefer film to digital, but to say it’s just better is closed minded to me. I like Deakins take on this, different films require different equipment, and the person using the equipment matters more than the equipment itself.

@jan-lukas 7 ай бұрын

@@bulletproofkarma9480but you don't always want better dynamic range and better color, that's the exact point!

@andrihusainsudra 7 ай бұрын

i agree! digital and analog have their own perks and setbacks. they are equal in my eyes cz like paintings it doesn't matter wether it's traditional or digital, it's the dude doing it

@moritzzoellner 7 ай бұрын

Completely agree with you and love Deakins approach. While yes, Tarantino as a master of his craft, every single interview I see of him, talking about film vs. digital, he comes across as a huge snob which generally makes me dislike him personally. His movies do speak for themselves tho, but so do the movies of Deakins, Fraiser and Lubetzki who shoot beautifully on digital and film.

@kangaroomonkey4180 7 ай бұрын

@@moritzzoellner at least whenever I’ve seen Tarantino talk about it his arguments aren’t based as much in fact as they are his own personal experience, which is fine if he feels that way, but it’s not very persuasive.

@bulletproofkarma 6 ай бұрын

I like film, the thing is where will most people see your work? In a theater with a film projector? At home on their TV? Or on their phones.

@Icyblade01 5 ай бұрын

So glad I was able to see Oppenheimer in original 70mm Imax at the Science Museum in London - arguably the best cinematic experience I've ever had

@wiseguymotionpictures1416 8 ай бұрын

I think the bigger issue is that digital filming tends to go hand in hand with the "fix it in post" mentality. I exclusively shoot movies or series digitally but I'm adamant as DP that we always put as many real elements in front of the sensor as possible, and do everything in front of the camera as practically as possible. I think that's one of the reasons why things shot on film feel more real, even if there's compositing going on you know somewhere somebody put a puppet or a miniature in front of a film camera and something real was captured to celluloid. It's the difference between fabrication (CGI) and forced perspective (The miniature set isn't as big IRL as it is made to look on screen). You can do just about anything with color grading and effects these days to make digital look like film if that's what you're going for.

@unspecialist 8 ай бұрын

Agree with the comment except the connection with fix it in post. I’m a VFX supervisor and also a set supervisor and the pipeline difference between digital and film is basically a scan step after the lab is done their luma calibration and that’s it. The moment you need to grade it, it goes digital, fixing film or digital in post isn’t dependent of the original medium nowadays. We work with intermediaries from the scan on, there is no compromise between the 2 mediums when it comes to post apart from reverse stabilizing gate weave to be able to integrate effects.

@jacobp8294 3 ай бұрын

@@unspecialistYeah well I watch a couple of movies here and there and I think film is stupid and smelly and we should shoot movies on iphone 6s thank you.

@jakem3043 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. The movie Joker comes to mind. Had no idea it was shot digitally.

@Turboy65 Ай бұрын

Digital offers superior colorimetry and wider dynamic range. "Film" means "intrinsic limitations we don't have to deal with anymore.". And certainly digital can look like film. But why limit it in that manner?

@MovieF8 8 ай бұрын

Interstellar, but Inception comes close behind! Like Nolan said -”IMAX, is like 3D without the glasses”🔥

@dzrknx 7 ай бұрын

I really want to see what imax oppenheimer with 3d glasses looks like. The orignal imax 70mm was really great already

@MovieF8 7 ай бұрын

@@dzrknx yes that would be cool to see the effect!

@GlowingTube 7 ай бұрын

I just saw Oppenheimer in 70mm at the Sun theatre in Melbourne. It looked stunning to me. I think film and digital have their place depending on what you wish to achieve artistically.

@REVOLUTIONS51 6 ай бұрын

Well, well, well. I'll never be sold on this. A 16k shot (4 times the current 8k standard) projected on a imax sized screen (imax is 18x24 meters usually, but I'll consider a 18x32 to keep the aspect ratio) would have a discerning distance of about 6 meters. Meaning a person with perfect 20/20 eyesight won't be able to resolve 2 points from eachother at more than 6 meters. At the IMAX I've been the closes seat is probably about 9 meters from screen. Doing the math with the claimed 18k and 18x24 meters IMAX screen gives you about 4.5 meters. Sitting at halfway through the seats you'll never be able to phisically discern an imax roll from a 8k digital printed on film. I mean, literally, phisically impossible.

@GlowingTube 6 ай бұрын

@@REVOLUTIONS51 cinema nerd sad face.

@modisodes1301 4 ай бұрын

I saw Whoppenheimer on imax and to be honest, before going I had lost my love for going to the cinema and watching a movie. But now watching that film re-ignited my love for cinema, see the trinity test on that big screen really changed me. I cried after watching the movie

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 2 ай бұрын

I thought the movie itself sucked. Big time.

@liukang3545 2 ай бұрын

WHOPPENHEIMER HAHAH "I WANT A WHOOPERHEIMER PLS WITH FRIES HAHA"

@davidgambin2551 6 күн бұрын

If you lost your love for cinema you need to find better pictures

@henryatkinson1479 8 ай бұрын

As a 70mm projectionist, keeping the art of film projection alive is imperative. Shoot however you want, but when you go to distribute a movie, it should be on film. Blade Runner 2049 got 70mm trailers to run before Dunkirk, and it looks stunning... compare that to our *SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLAR* digital projector we have which can manage... 2k (1080p equivalent). Film reigns supreme.

@mattburnett4185 8 ай бұрын

They perfected colour films with the tri-colour film process, in the 1940's "leave her to heaven' for example, Then they adopted cheaper, easier, lower image quality single film colour process

@skullduggerry 7 ай бұрын

@@bulletproofkarma9480 compression. It will take a long time until we have really high quality lossless film, and until then I don't see it being a viable alternative.

@RandomMusik Ай бұрын

What if some day 18k will be possible for Digital ?

@henryatkinson1479 Ай бұрын

@@RandomMusik It wont, and even then, the cost wont ever make sense. Current 2k cinema projectors cost upwards of 100k USD.

@YuutaShinjou113 5 күн бұрын

this is why tradition is superior to liberation

@PostromoPictures 8 ай бұрын

Good video, just want to clarify though that the image used in the thumbnail and shown at 1:49 is actually a digital still taken on a Fujifilm GFX and not an IMAX film still (the press release those photos are from contain a mix of both and the Fuji vs Imax images are labelled as such in the file names).

@fostena 5 ай бұрын

Just goes to show how stupid it is to say that film is superior nowadays. 😂

@DavidK-wg8wz 28 күн бұрын

yea this video has a lot of problems like that

@julijangrajfoner1730 8 ай бұрын

Very well put together video. Great job!

@elsienova4269 3 ай бұрын

I love that you mentioned the sound issues created by shooting on film, especially IMAX film. As films get more and more complex, the work of sound engineers on set and in prost production gets more and more difficult and you can actually sometimes tell how "placed in" the dialogue feels in Oppenheimer, its not a downside of course but if you work in sound, you can tell if you listen closely that they either had to use a different camera for the "guide track" or didn't have one at all.

@zakuraiyadesu 7 ай бұрын

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

@robertzerbst8746 8 ай бұрын

I get it - both sides. One of the things that truly annoyed me when watching Oppenheimer, was that the eyes very very often out of focus and sometimes the only thing sharp were the ears or/and the background. I understand they probably shot with a very open aperture and it is enormously difficult for the 1stAC (given the few shooting days) but what is the point of going through all of this hassle, when the eyes or faces are not sharp in the end. 18k doesn't help with that either. About the 'phone' point: Yes, it is extremely wonderful that everybody has the option to capture videos. But to make a film means much more than having a camera. I hate that argument: 'just go out and shoot a film'. Because actually shooting it requires still either a big chunk of money or people who work for free - so to say: unpaid work. Locations, food, travel costs, ... you name it, still needs to be covered. I think it is a romanticized view on the modern freedom of moviemaking. Sorry for being a bit negative here. Still thank you very much for your video and for the work you put into it. I don't mean it personally, it is meant as a joke and a bit to proof my point: You didn't even had to shoot it, so why do you need a sponsor?

@henryatkinson1479 8 ай бұрын

Focus has nothing to do with the medium it was shot on. Shoot that same scene through that lens on an equivalently-sized sensor, and the focus will still be soft on the edge. Most cinema lenses don't stop down super far, since you don't need perfect corner to corner sharpness in most situations that a cinematographer will want to capture.

@sca8217 7 ай бұрын

I personally found that to be very engaging. I had no need to see every face in full detail and sharpness, every scene,scene after scene, especially in the second half where there are a lot of mid and close up shots. An out of focus face here or a sharply focussed nose there actually cut the banality of the shot, enough to be slightly interesting without actually being distracting. It was almost as if Hoytema was painting in broad strokes, without being too concerned about the finer details, as long as the final portrait came out looking beautiful.

@stevens6654 8 ай бұрын

Dunkirk may have been Nolan's masterwork, but Oppenheimer deserves attention for being a surprisingly arresting. I agree wth Deakins, who has a real sense for the flexibility for filmmaking. But I also agree with Nolan, who feels it's important to keep the options for film as open as possible. That includes everything from 70mm to digital.

6 ай бұрын

What did you like about Dunkirk ?

@filmexpressreviews 5 ай бұрын

Dunkirk is in his bottom 3 films man

@JackJackKcajify 5 ай бұрын

oh come on dunkirk was even worse. oppenheimer is way better than dunkirk and oppenhiemr is a bad movie

@JackJackKcajify 5 ай бұрын

the dark knight is nolans masterwork. get real. thats a truly amazing movie. how can you have a villain and gritty world that actually scared you in a pg 13 movie? by making an amazing movie thats how

@TheDJPCol 2 ай бұрын

@@JackJackKcajify I hated Nolan's Batman movies. Burton all the way!

@sylwiaw537 7 ай бұрын

again - amazing video, great research & love the way you narrate! I am definitely staying here for more😉

@michaelcooney9368 8 ай бұрын

Tarantino offers the perfect explanation for some directors shooting film at 6:50. He says you can shoot a film with a cell phone, and he doesn't mean that in an inclusive democratization is good kind of way. Shooting on film for him was as he said, a mount everest most could not climb. Digital is like building an elevator to everest. There is a strong streak of elitism and exclusivity about being in a prestige circle, of being in a way of making art by it's nature not accessable to but a tiny minority that is important to the philosophy of some filmmakers. Kinda Nietzsche/Rand super format for super people mindset.

@davidgambin2551 6 күн бұрын

That’s just stupid. You can create better movies with a phone than Tarantino will ever make. And some have been released already.

@davidgambin2551 6 күн бұрын

Also Tarantino saying that, he who learned cinema by renting movies is just pure nonsense 😂 shows how unhinged he is… zero respect

@user-js2sv1pw2e 7 ай бұрын

The cinematography in this film is beyond incredible, must experience this in IMAX, the atomic particle scenes and the sequence of the Trinity Test were simply splendid in IMAX. Nolan is truly a cinematic genius.

@Diggnuts 7 ай бұрын

Why? Does it change the story? No! I hate going to the cinema. Give me digital streaming on my laptop any day!

@fortnight5677 5 ай бұрын

Using Imax = Genius. Certified over-exaggerating nerd moment.

@fortnight5677 5 ай бұрын

It all ends up being bullshit when it's also released in DVD but for some reason we can't have it on streaming platforms. Lol.

@arnthorsnaer 8 ай бұрын

Cinema is more about the theatrical experience, stories, the craft of moviemaking and the marketing than it’s about the medium.

@user-wr5bz1wq2v 8 ай бұрын

the craft of the moviemaking literally involves the medium

@arnthorsnaer 8 ай бұрын

@@user-wr5bz1wq2v yes it does. What’s your point? My dinner can involve steak, but my dinner party is about more than steak… and I can have a dinner party without steak… or even without firing up my bbq.. but it doesn’t make it any less of a dinner party. The craft of moviemaking involves a lot of things. It is not just the medium. This is not a “hot take”. As someone who dj’d for many years with vinyl… vinyl does not OWN the clubbing experience… and film does not own the theatrical experience.

@user-wr5bz1wq2v 8 ай бұрын

I'm just pointing out that we shouldn't neglect the importance about the medium, along with everything you said

@toongsaram 18 күн бұрын

Much respect for showing all the brands some love.

@SamOakwood 7 ай бұрын

I think especially for 16mm film, it looks most like we remember moments from our past. Also, high end film (Portra, Ektar, Vision 3) has a very good dynamic range (about 14 stops; some digital cams have more, such as the alexa with about 17-18 stops) which comes somewhat close to the dynamic range of human eye vision (18-20 stops). And really movies for me should rather look like memories, since you can never physically be in the action and the storytelling is compressed in 99.9% of films, which naturally resembles more the nature of remembering rather than experiencing. So (16mm) in my opinion, film delivers the most memory-accurate picture possible. When going to LF film such as 35mm, 65mm or IMAX, it becomes somewhat indistinguishable from digital but gains the resolution advantage. Also especially but not only when doing stills, I have the feeling that due to the imperfect nature of film it allows for much more mistakes on the photographer's side. However even though being more film-biased, I really admire a 74 year old Roger Deakins who has spent most of his life shooting on film adapting so quickly and determined to the new technology of digital systems. Not many old people that I know of are like that.

@peterparker-gx5nf 8 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer needs to win the best cinematography for Oscars next year.

@DuCinema1 8 ай бұрын

i approve

@gurratell7326 8 ай бұрын

I'm positive that Dune 2 will look way better with some actual good looking shots and not just "shot on IMAX".

@marlkarx1991 8 ай бұрын

@@gurratell7326 Dune 2 isn't coming out this year

@SheikImamPHD Ай бұрын

They won!

@tangchakyan4453 7 ай бұрын

It's just an artistic choice. BUT I CAN NEVER FORGET THE FILM PROJECTION OF OPPENHEIMER, IT IS MAGICAL.

@Vaxmas Ай бұрын

That soundman joke killed all most chocked

@weirdo90905 8 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer budget was 100 million only.

@DingDongProdz 3 күн бұрын

this was a beautiful video great job!

@grooty709 8 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer was one of the top 3 films i've seen this year (others being Barbie and Puss In Boots 2)

@81Point2 8 ай бұрын

Puss in Boots 2 was surprisingly great, the villain is one of the best.

@sambrandner 8 ай бұрын

High resolution = Better films? It's important all the little details that go into the story telling. Who cares if it's water colors or acrylics, use the tools to tell the story how you want to. Film does a great job with highlights, digital is great with shadows. Every form has its own benefits.

@TheDJPCol 2 ай бұрын

At the end of the day a good film's a good film, it's the characters and scenarios we connect with, not which film stock or digital sensor was used to tell it

@thewindthatblows Ай бұрын

Yeah that's why I can't stand Tarantino saying he won't watch a film due to childish details like being projected digitally

@rogmic 8 ай бұрын

its a shame there are only a few IMAX cinemas showing the film version. I was lucky to see Oppenheimer at the Manchester Printworks IMAX screen & it does have a mellow quality that suits story telling. i have used 70mm = 120 size film for studio still photography in the past & it can be manipulated in processing to give subtle effects.

@andrewparker318 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely love this video!! I hope to shoot on 65mm one day

@Butter_Warrior99 8 ай бұрын

Because seeing particles in the film has more personality than the digital film.

@FingerTightRacing8 8 ай бұрын

You sound like someone who would use a shift stick

@gaylord_focker 8 ай бұрын

@@FingerTightRacing8What?

@FingerTightRacing8 8 ай бұрын

@@gaylord_focker mr. Gay, Im just saying that cause that’s what people who drive stick say, they only drive stick and they say it gives the car personality, same thing with guys who hate electric cars actually

@ruttedrumble3332 8 ай бұрын

You can’t even see grain in imax….

@morenol1990 8 ай бұрын

@ruttedrumble3332 not trying to confirm the other guys response, but having seen Oppenheimer in true IMAX 70mm film at tge AMC Lincoln Square, you could see the grain, even with the large format IMAX sequences. I don't know if it actually gives the film more personality, but it was a little distracting at times, especially the little knicks, scratches and other imperfections.

@MrBrianyoruk 8 ай бұрын

OK, NOW THIS IS EPIC

@pohordebbarma4505 7 ай бұрын

Nolan is all about how best I can perfect the cinema exploring all the possibilities of Physics in cinema making, and How hard twist I can direct a story he is a revolution 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@charlesbarkley5044 8 ай бұрын

This is the greatest KZfaq channel

@nemiesis 6 ай бұрын

3:57: Blackmagic makes 12K Digital camera's, RED makes 8K, i'm not sure where the "modest 6K" comes from, but 6k was the maximum maybe 5 years ago by now.

@007rahees Ай бұрын

He's talking about the big movie cameras like ARRI Alexa's and others not the smaller ones I think 🤷🏾‍♂️

@VariTimo Ай бұрын

That’s not how cameras work. No digital camera with a color sensor has the actual resolution it says it has. And the Blackmagic 12K doesn’t even come close to reaching 12K in real world conditions.

@joseorpinelli7905 Ай бұрын

ARRI still shot in 4k and most of the winning awards films was shot on this camera.

@williamm4804 7 ай бұрын

David Lynch on why he does not like film - "It scratches, it breaks, its dirty, and no two prints are the same. It a nightmare."

@VariTimo Ай бұрын

It’s not like that anymore. I mean yes it still gets broken and dirty if not handled well but print film is much more durable now than back in Lynch’s day and because they don’t need to make so many print quality control is much tighter. I’ve seen five different prints of Oppenheimer, and they all looked the same except for the difference that comes from watching it in different formats. The two IMAX prints and the two 70mm prints look exactly the same to each other. And digital projection turns out to be inconsistent too. From user error to aging projectors. In my city with three cinemas and 300K people only about a third actually match each other and can represent a movie correctly. And I personally preferred a beat up 35mm print over the defects these projectors show after only a decade of use.

@sandcastle5056 Ай бұрын

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@Hunac-Ceel 8 ай бұрын

I love your videos bud 😍

@laraferrari3282 8 ай бұрын

🤯🤯🤯🤯 amazing vídeo and editing, in turn. There is also Roger Deakins. Mito

@DuCinema1 8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙌

@sultanhussein1053 5 ай бұрын

I love your Channel because most channels that talk about movies are always so negative all the time. But you focus on the good and quality which is worth the subscribing and adding joy to my entrainment.

@nilsnevada 5 ай бұрын

such a greaat video! really love it

@mudigavenkatesh3933 7 ай бұрын

Lot of information in the video 🥰 Analogue vs Digital filmmaking. It's the director's choice to film analogue or digital. But we audience have to preserve the technology for future generations to experience Cinema by encouraging Analogue films too😊

@legalafricanworker4969 6 ай бұрын

VERY WELL RESEARCHED AND NICE EDITING AND VOICE OVER, GOOD TO SEE FILMAKER ENTHUSISTS TO SHOW THEIR ART THAT IS COMMON WITH CINEPHILES. LIKE PHYSICYSTS BRAGGING ABOUT NEWTON OAYING RESPECTS TO THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO A COMMON INTEREST FOR SCIENCE, WE SHOULD HAVE MORE LIKE THIS CHANNEL FOR CINEPHILES

@ben_roskam9468 8 ай бұрын

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@DuCinema1 8 ай бұрын

haha legend

@anarchisttutor7423 8 ай бұрын

As our TVs get bigger and better, the transfers from higher-resolution film will be able to keep up.

@vamsikrishnachakravadhanula Ай бұрын

Why Oppenheimer and finally Christopher Nolan won academy awards ???? Becoz he made a movie about USA and its scientist.

@raymondjunger4742 Ай бұрын

THATS what I'm talking about.

@Bechs87 5 ай бұрын

Holly sh...utter.. That soundtrack starting at 08:15 ! Eargasm.

@Mannihannibull 5 ай бұрын

I just got Oppenheimer on 4k. That is one of the most immaculate looking movies. Just incredible.

@eggsybenedict7014 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the great video. I think Graig Fraser found a happy medium between digital and film with Dune and The Batman - shoot in digital, transfer to film, then scan back to digital. It keeps the flexibility of the digital workflow while giving the end product that softer feel of film. In terms of the viewing experience, for me there's no going back after seeing something on IMAX 70mm. 1.43:1 IMAX with Laser is also excellent, but having seen Dune Part 1 in Laser and Part 2 in IMAX 70mm, I find the film projection to be livelier.

@ryanbowiephotography Ай бұрын

I'm not a filmmaker, more of a photographer, but I get the obsession with analog film because i primarily shoot with manual lenses on my cameras. They add character to photos in a world where everything is super sharp and crystal clear. I also have a manual transmission car so I get the "use it or lose it" thing. Manual transmission cars are pretty obsolete in this day and age but there's something that feels good about shifting through the gears and knowing you're in complete control of your car

@GreenyRom4 8 ай бұрын

Can someone please tell my the name of the music in 9:33 ? Amazing video btw, thank you Du Cinema for this! Love it

@DuCinema1 8 ай бұрын

It's the trailer music! From the first Oppenheimer trailer

@katarinatill4713 8 ай бұрын

For me... it MATTERS! ❤

@issatr5p 3 ай бұрын

watching Oppenheimer in cinema (not even IMAX) was amazing. I was in awe of the movie and I watched it twice, it was that amazing. Just the visuals with the sound and the story all comes together into a piece of art. I'm really sad I couldn't see it in IMAX format and will never get a chance to tho

@user-lr6sv5uj7c Ай бұрын

very interesting....i think that even tho its a bit contradictory, i agree with both takes but i definitely think the most important part is was Roger Deakins said abt the importance of the person using the equipment rather than the equipment by itself.

@user-xm8bj5ix3f 3 ай бұрын

again - amazing video, great research & love the way you narrate! I am definitely staying here for more

@spooneater9001 8 ай бұрын

2:44 is this the reason why nolan films have notoriously bizarre audio mixing?

@TheDJPCol 2 ай бұрын

Being around all those nuclear explosions has had a detrimental effect on his hearing

@Genemon123 8 ай бұрын

There’s a small irony about Nolan liking film. The Dark Knight trilogy 4k set is filled with DNR. While mostly light it does ruin Batman Begins on the 4k so much that the included 1080p blu ray is a better watch. It’s still the best that the movies have looked (besides Batman Begins) but it could have been better even ignoring Nolan’s choice of using an Interpositive for all the films instead of the negative when possible

@tiberiius 18 күн бұрын

I watched Oppenheimer in 70mm imax when I saw it a second time. It is neat to watch it in this format because of the analog irregularities in the film. With the film projection, the white spaces flickered though and was really distracting to me. I enjoyed the digital format better for the smoother display.

@evandh1989 4 ай бұрын

The cut to “the soundman” at 2:50 literally made me laugh out loud. That was hilarious.

@denisgut 5 ай бұрын

So Nolan did explode a nuclear bomb to keep movie more realistic?

@charlesburns7391 2 ай бұрын

@stasisthebest 6 ай бұрын

when it comes to sound plus image, Hateful Eight was THE BEST experience I've ever had. that movie is not best in everything, but certainly looks and feels divine.

@Kirmo13 3 ай бұрын

I recently went to the cinema to watch the new Wim Wenders movie: Perfect Days. There is no way on earth that I would endure that slob at home, but at the cinema it was a different experience. I ended up really liking the movie and the fact that it was at the cinema definitely added to the experience. EXPERIENCE. That's the crucial word in my opinion. It's like going to a favorite restaurant or going to an ammusement park. It's very fun and enjoyable only if you do it rarely. The vast majority of movies I watch are at home, on my 1080p 15 inch laptop with Bluetooth headphones, very far from the 70mm imax experience, but that's the way I prefer to regularly consume media. I skip around, speed up, slow down, rewatch parts I liked.

@Oppenheimer19456 7 ай бұрын

This video deserves a million views ❤[best story telling and editing in this video] 📷

@NiklasStrahammer 8 ай бұрын

Wouldve been nice if the movie wasnt out of focus constantly

@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 8 ай бұрын

Was it a stylistic or creative choice?

@NiklasStrahammer 8 ай бұрын

@@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 a weird one if so

@unspecialist 8 ай бұрын

Any professional film camera is noisy regardless of the film size

@noireanimations 7 ай бұрын

4:41 holy crap, is that Solomun Richards?

@jannisberry4040 7 ай бұрын

I was really hyped to watch this film and wanted to watch it on film projected onto a huge screen. I travelled to another city to watch it on film and then watched it a little later digitally projected in my hometown. To say i watched the same movie would be a lie. The exposure on film and the colours were totally different. The film version had more depth, more light range and more details as well as character with the imperfections. The digital release had different colours, a lot less depth and struggled with the projection of these fast particles scenes at the start, that were made in camera. It just looked out of focus even in 4K on a smaller screen.

@LaughingOrange 2 ай бұрын

I like the quote that digital is a larger palette. Restrictions breed creativity, but if you already have the creativity needed, more options can help you get it out. That doesn't make you a better director for using film or digital, it's a just preference. Like 8 bit games vs 3d modeled.

@technologicalsingularity1788 7 ай бұрын

In my personal oponion, with these day's technology and how movies are generally consumed, not using digital and only insisting on film gives me the vibe of hipster or elitism.

@RitzStarr Ай бұрын

It is interesting that in like 50 years when 16k is the norm, people could still enjoy films like this at max quality.

@Obi_Swagg_Kenobi 8 ай бұрын

The last 3 minutes of the video shows exactly why we need 16mm

@RYANG0SLlNG 8 ай бұрын

Ryan gosling is… literally me

@asmrstates9167 6 ай бұрын

4:55 "Nolan refuses from using CGI and green screens". Holy shit, that detonation scene!

@DallyLama93 2 ай бұрын

5:26 this reminded me of how marvel literally flew Tom Holland and all the crew over to Venice, and they stayed there for 2 weeks or so, but instead of filming their scenes from the movie in the ACTUAL city of Venice they just made it all in CGI. Like the street, the canal, everything. Like you're there already! Why not just film it?!?!

@PepijnHazelhof 8 ай бұрын

if it was possible to order a 70mm projector joourself I would have done it

@busywl69 6 ай бұрын

No wonder audio in Nolan films is so awful. I love Deakins perspective. Dude is legend.

@Lincento53 4 ай бұрын

I found the timing of the streaming platform ad very funny

@ThatNeglectedChildTho 2 ай бұрын

honestly one of the reasons i dont really go to the cinemas is due to there being no reason unless it is physical but all the ones in my area only do digital so it just ends up with me waiting a couple of weeks for the release on streraming platforms s

@ActuallyHoudini 8 ай бұрын

i mean i like it because its a physical thing i can hold and i feel like a wizard when i develop it. it's litteral light-sensitive particles a billion times smaller than any pixel squashed out on reels of plastic and gelatin which quite litterally does a chemical reaction when fotons hit it at a speed faster than anyone can imagine which turns these little silver hyalide crystals into silver and when you develop, stop and fix it those silver crystals become even more obvious. it's magic. you don't get that closeness with digital. which works somewhat the same but not excessively so. you don't get as personal with it when developing and scanning. i love being a wizard.

@Yan33688 8 ай бұрын

could be seen as a metaphor of nuclear reaction funnily enough

@ActuallyHoudini 8 ай бұрын

@@Yan33688 it's quite similar in a way. i thought that when i went to go see Opennheimer at the BFI IMAX theatre last month. just thinking about the chemical reactions that happen just by exposing the film to light for a fraction of a fraction of a second has been just. beautiful to think about. i think about the particles and the atoms reacting to fotons in a way similar to that of oppenheimer in the movie. just the particles spinning about and crashing into each other. but this time instead of it leading to the unneccessary deaths of thousands of japanese civillians, it leads to a photo of a very nice flower i saw. there is a magic to celluloid. that magic can be found in digital, obviously. but they're completely seperate in regards to what kind of magic they are. one is more free and adventurous and the other is like harry potter. take that as you will.

@Yan33688 8 ай бұрын

@@ActuallyHoudini I agree, I think digital can't beat analog

@ActuallyHoudini 8 ай бұрын

@@Yan33688 its basically the differance between digital and physical art. digital art does have its advances in regards to what can be accomplished through its means. in a digital sense that would mean television, no-budget independant productions, anything that is a live format. that kind of stuff. but film is like physical art. it's like oil paint or acrylic thanks to advances in digital media that assist it. it is there in your hands and it feels like an effort. a worthy effort. i develop what i can at home. knowing that everything from photographing, developing, scanning, editing and showcasing i feel like i have made the effort to have what i have be seen. it's personal. beyond personal. like an oil painting. both can be great art and not one is above the other, but it's about tradition and subversiveness of that tradition that i think matters to me perfectly when it comes film.

@Yan33688 8 ай бұрын

@@ActuallyHoudini I'm a musician so there is similar concepts of eletronic music, using samples or simulation against using mics and playing the instruments. They are different tools, but I think music managed to use those digital tools in a more creative way with new genre than what I saw from cinema which isn't really improve by digital and could be done with analog camera. I even have the same opinion on the japanese anime from the 90s who has a gritty look, something raw and iconic, that is just not here anymore, it just feels like plastic.

@USEC3 4 ай бұрын

i'm glad i got the chance to watch the movie in 70mm, it was really an incredible experience

@kbrown4ou 7 ай бұрын

My iPhone is fine for taking snapshots; for taking photographs I’ll continue using the 35mm Nikon F3 I’ve trusted for 40 years.

@Mistygio 5 ай бұрын

I mean there's almost no point in watching this video for all those people who have not seen 70mm IMAX. People dont know what it is until they've seen it with their own eyes. Without seeing it, there is no way for people to believe that its better. It's higher quality. Yes its better quality but when I walked into that 70mm IMAX for the first time, I had no idea it was going to look 3D without glasses. I had no idea it was VR without goggles. I thought "ehh it's just a bigger theatre and probably marginally better". I was so wrong.

@ThompterSHunson 2 ай бұрын

Nice video. With the rise of VR headsets like Apple Vision where you can display huge screens from the comfort of your home, cinema will lose more track.

@KiranKumar-uv6kd 8 ай бұрын

All the drawbacks of analog film is not worth it. It doesn’t matter how a movie was shot With what camera or whatever equipment. A well made movie is beyond all the equipment and yeah in the future we will have 16k sensors, even an 8k image will give you that larger than life feeling when projected on large screens.

@gurratell7326 8 ай бұрын

Yeah the only benefit analog IMAX have over digital is it's resolution, apart from that I'd go for something shot on Arri Alexa 35/LF/65 every day. Though I am looking forward to 8K projectors in the cinema and TVs at home, and for IMAX it will probably have a slight benefit going up to 16K. But having that gate weave and flicker from even an IMAX analog projector, no thank you!

@davidswanson5669 7 ай бұрын

2:58 “they had to record dialogue on a different camera”… that’s not how sound recording works in film production. No cinema film camera records audio. And when they do record audio they use an audio recorder. Perhaps they filmed those “audio-prioritized” scenes with a camera (alongside an audio recorder) just to help with some aspect of syncing or editing or who knows what (assuming the quote from this KZfaq video is true. But it just isn’t true that a camera was used to record audio.

@chrisaguilera1564 8 ай бұрын

If Digital is cheaper than Film, why did all the tent pole movies shot on Digital cost twice as much as Oppenhiemer? Oppenheimer was over 100K and yet was half the cost of the other summer movies all shot Digital.

@Pang-nn4eq 26 күн бұрын

Robert Downjey Jr took a pay cut of six million US$ instead of his is usual 26 million US$. He wanted to star in a movie that will beat the record for most Oscars. That's why. The movie is so high quality it's other wordly that the actors decide to take pay cuts.

@sabyfoz538 7 ай бұрын

The debate is as good as IC engine cars Vs Electric cars Electric is good but we still love our Engine roars and gear shifts

@user-em2yw4kw8u 7 ай бұрын

I think Film only makes sense when using IMAX. Because its able to give you something that digital doesn't. When it comes to 35 - if you want you can make digital look exactly the same in post.

@ramsey2155 7 ай бұрын

You can't even notice the difference after you go past 4k

@thabreez456 5 ай бұрын

While I think digital is more efficient, I will agree that digital if not treated right can bring out a very clinical grey mesh look for a film, which has been a problem for marvel movies recently. Film always looks a little more authentic in my opinion and side note I love how film has imperfections like grain and how light sources like windows are always over exposed like our eyes would do if we aren’t looking at it head on.

@acf2802 7 ай бұрын

18K is a over estimate of the resolving capability of 1570 film. It's probably closer to 12K max.

@vincentlanglo7367 8 ай бұрын

How does the cinema show the film if there is only one role? Can it be duplicated or is it digital after all?

@davidhrzenjak 8 ай бұрын

Yes, film prints can be duplicated

@truefilm6991 8 ай бұрын

Film prints are struck from an internegative, which in turn is struck from an intermediate. Back in the day, up to the early 2000s, a film print usually was fourth generation, with the exception of the very rare premium prints, struck directly from the camera negative. If all stages are 35mm, these are contact prints. If there are other formats involved, you have optical printing, meaning lenses are used to blow up or down.

@HungryTacoBoy 5 ай бұрын

This video does not answer "Why Oppenheimer Will Win Best Cinematography".

@jessetimmmiller1870 5 ай бұрын

As someone coming from an audio background who is now into film and cinematography, I understand and respect the "analog-purist." However, with film emulations, VST's of classic analog recording equipment, etc. my belief is that the proof is in the pudding. Does it sound and look good? Can you tell if it's analog or digital? When DP's like Roger Deakins and directors like Fincher are fully embracing digital, I feel that the "either/or" framing of digital VS. analog is kind of a false dichotomy. I say, use what looks right for the project at hand. Also, the best camera is the one you have. Thanks for the video!!

@Pang-nn4eq 26 күн бұрын

Fincher hasn't made a single good movie or a show (Social Network was awful). Maybe that's why. He embraces digital.

@dr.feelicks2051 8 ай бұрын

Sound man🤣🎧

@sirbeatlesfan101 3 ай бұрын

this video is misleadingly titled, I was expecting a deep dive into the cinematography of Oppenheimer, instead of a video of why Nolan likes analog film.

@carter.coleman Ай бұрын

Also when your watching it your looking at it basically in real time. Each section is just light from the very moment burnt into it

@testxxxx123 25 күн бұрын

Film really has an unique color grading that is very difficult to replicate consistently.

@thefunpolice 5 ай бұрын

Christopher Nolan is a wonderful film maker. Truly one of the greats. I will watch anything he makes. If he made a Cornflakes commercial, I'd watch that.