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by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: "Oppenheimer" Reviews Discussion
Replies: 291
Views: 200286

Re: "Oppenheimer" Reviews Discussion

Don't usually post my writing on here but pretty excited to share my essay into Oppenheimer for Bright Wall/Dark Room's end of the year issue: I. “The Burial of the Dead” It’s July of 2023 and I’m pulled to the screen like gravity, watching a gaunt face with piercing eyes study a dance of ripples in...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Interviews - Cast and Crew
Replies: 513
Views: 521921

Re: Interviews - Cast and Crew

666kalpa wrote:
November 14th, 2023, 1:21 pm
yeah saw that..i have a downloaded copy of the Behind The Scenes Movie with me.. in case anyone wants can DM
sure hit me up!

btw I talked to Andrew Jackson, Jennifer Lame, Richard King and Ruth de Jong. the interviews should all be up relatively soon. they were mostly all lovely.


-Vader
by Vader182
Forum: Tenet
Topic: Tenet Reviews/Reactions [Possible SPOILERS]
Replies: 1005
Views: 154703

Re: Tenet Reviews/Reactions [Possible SPOILERS]

I don't really post much anymore, but I just wrote an essay for Tenet I'm particularly proud of for Bright Wall / Dark Room so I thought I'd share it: Tenet was never going to be the savior of cinemas. Christopher Nolan’s impressionistic sci-fi action love-story is the most abstract, challenging, fr...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Oppenheimer - General Information
Replies: 2457
Views: 734600

Re: Oppenheimer - General Information

I won't speak for the majority of people, just myself. I know what the Trinity test looked like. That's what I was expecting. I'm not even talking about frame of reference or scale, just shape and form. This shot is the main culprit... https://i.imgur.com/LNTwTDM.jpg Thin and pointy. The "thin and ...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Hoyte van Hoytema's Cinematography
Replies: 173
Views: 130640

Re: Hoyte van Hoytema's Cinematography

imax absolutely does not limit nolan to working with hoyte at all. in fact, the only time hoyte ever has anything to do with the camera is when he’s operating during the takes or rehearsals. the camera is built and looked after by his camera assistants and imax techs and lugged around by the first ...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Hoyte van Hoytema's Cinematography
Replies: 173
Views: 130640

Re: Hoyte van Hoytema's Cinematography

Deakins has just kind of evolved into a digital guy. If you look at any of his interviews since SKYFALL or so, he gives plenty of reasons, but honestly, as wonderful as the guy's work usually is, I am not impressed with his digital stuff, because it does look digital (have covered several films he ...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Box Office
Replies: 759
Views: 467060

Re: Box Office

It won't happen, but the fact we're even talking about it as a non-insane possibility speaks to the borderline unprecedented (this century, anyway) run Oppenheimer's been having regardless.


-Vader
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Lingering Questions [Spoilers]
Replies: 43
Views: 129067

Re: Lingering Questions [Spoilers]

Virtually the entire "color" portion of the film plays out as a memory of Oppenheimer at the time of the hearing. There is only one scene after that which, chronologically, is the 'end' of the movie, IE him meeting Kitty. Arguably, the flashforward is the chronological "end," but it depends whether ...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Oppenheimer - General Information
Replies: 2457
Views: 734600

Re: Oppenheimer - General Information

Not surprised to hear some are preferring 15/70mm to 70mm, because a lot of the visuals take on a more vertical dynamic than most of Nolan's other 1.43 experiments. Even seeing it in 1.90 liemax single laser this week, I hugely missed that verticality, especially the atomic sequences and, of course,...
by Vader182
Forum: Oppenheimer
Topic: Does 'Oppenheimer' finally tell us that Nolan isn't a Tory?
Replies: 69
Views: 97233

Re: Does 'Oppenheimer' finally tell us that Nolan isn't a Tory?

natalie wrote:
August 1st, 2023, 2:05 pm
Since when Dunkirk "is arguably his most right-wing film"? :eh:
This. Anyone who's been accusing his work of a pro-right bent hasn't been paying very close attention.


-Vader