verytired wrote:

Shady1 wrote:And what Vader just said is precisely my issue with the whole thing. If Nolan wants to throw his weight around and do something about the fact there are so few 15/70 theater's then I think he should do that and put his money where his mouth is. Otherwise, he's kind of just rubbing it in people's faces by creating films that people don't get to fully absorb and appreciate.

That's not to say he shouldn't make them, but surely he could use his influence to increase the number of venues one might be able to see his masterpieces in.

Dunkirk 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan's film at Astor sunk by distributor

When Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk opens next Thursday, they will once again be fighting on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets. But they won't be fighting in The Astor.

Despite being one of the few cinemas in the country that retained its ability to screen 70mm celluloid while others were rushing to rip their projectors out, The Astor has been rocked by a decision by distributor Roadshow to deny it the right to screen the film in the specialist format in its first weeks of release.

The decision is particularly galling for the venue given writer-director Nolan's strong advocacy for celluloid projection in general, and 70mm in particular.

"We're gobsmacked," says Arabella Daniel, secretary of Friends of the Astor, the lobby group that helped save the venue from redevelopment in 2012."The film is set in 1940, the Astor was built in 1936. All fingers point to the Astor being a first choice, so we're struggling to understand. We think Christopher Nolan would be very disappointed."

The Astor is primarily a repertory cinema, showing older films or new releases later in their run (usually five or six weeks after the multiplexes), but it has previously hosted first-release runs of the 70mm versions of movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Inherent Vice.

In January 2016, the 1000-seat single-screen cinema did better business with the 70mm version of Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful 8 than any other venue in Australia, with more than 12,000 admissions. In scenes reminiscent of its origins as a 1930s picture palace, queues ran around the block nightly over its run.

Mahiya_Borden wrote:Ughh I'll probably cry watching this film. I already care about all the characters and I haven't seen the film yet. Managed to not spoil myself so far. I don't know who'll die, who'll live...
I'm just a ball of nerves now!!!