6. "The Dark Knight" (2008): As one of Nolan's most celebrated films, "The Dark Knight" pushed the boundaries of superhero cinema. Combining 35mm film with IMAX MSM 9802 and Panavision cameras, Nolan delivered breathtaking action sequences that became synonymous with the movie.
Much of The Dark Knight was filmed using Panavision's Panaflex Millennium XL and Platinum cameras but Christopher wanted to film about 40 minutes with IMAX cameras, a high-resolution technology using 70 mm film rather than the more-commonly used format 35 mm; the finished film includes 15–20% IMAX footage, running for ...
So the IMAX scenes were shot in 1:44: 1 and the rest of the movie in 2.35: 1 like the 1st one. As a projectionist I will tell you that "The Dark Knight" was released to theaters in the 2:40.1 aspect ratio, and you will see that when it comes to DVD later this year, early next.
THE DARK KNIGHT — IMAX 70 mm footage vs Standard footage (ENDING)
Was The Dark Knight shot on anamorphic?
Working on all three of Nolan's Batman films, cinematographer Wally Pfister brought Gotham to life while taking the Caped Crusader to new heights. After being impressed by the IMAX presentation of Batman Begins, Nolan suggested combining IMAX with the 35mm anamorphic format for The Dark Knight.
Dunkirk was shot with IMAX and Panavision Super 70 cameras. Films shot with Panavision Super 70mm will have an aspect ratio of 2.20:1. That's why there were some screen aspect ratio switching in Dunkirk.
However, it still heavily uses IMAX footage. Nolan still used the IMAX camera for the film's action sequences, and, as there's relatively little dialogue in the movie, the director got away with using the IMAX camera a lot more than usual.
Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analog photography.
Kubrick, a fanatical perfectionist, scoured the globe in search of a lens that could work, eventually discovering one of the largest relative aperture lenses in the history of photography: the famed Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7.
Earlier in the Wired interview, Nolan explained why he doesn't use CGI in his films, which would have been problematic if he had directed The Avengers. “I find CGI, however versatile it is, it always tends to feel a little safe to me,” Nolan said.
Why is 'The Dark Knight' so highly rated? The main elements of “The Dark Knight” that make the film so good are character development and storytelling. Three characters in particular make the film the masterpiece it is: Batman/Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent and the Joker (Heath Ledger).
The first Hollywood live-action feature film to be partially shot with IMAX cameras was The Dark Knight (2008) , released on July 18, 2008. What films have been shot exclusively on IMAX Cameras? This is a slightly more complicated question than one might initially believe.
Double Negative provided CGI views of Gotham from Wayne's penthouse to the green screen material and some minor enhancements such as lampposts ripping out of the ground and a CGI helicopter crashing into the ground during the truck chase and the Batpod driving up a wall and turning around.
However, unlike Oppenheimer, which was shot on IMAX film cameras, Dune: Part Two was “Filmed for IMAX” – that is, acquired on IMAX-certified digital cameras. Only 12 theaters worldwide are fortunate enough to be getting a 15/70mm film print (compared to 30 for Oppenheimer).
While it's impossible to shoot all of the movie in IMAX (as the cameras are too loud for scenes with dialogue), sequences that used the IMAX cameras will expand to fill the entire screen in 70mm theaters.
Nolan shot “Interstellar” with a combination of 35mm anamorphic film and 65mm Imax. The picture was released in film formats, which was a herculean task at the time as many theaters had switched over to digital projectors.
While Dunkirk the film might not quite be a masterpiece, its 4K Blu-ray picture quality certainly is. Nolan is unusual in modern cinema for refusing to use digital cameras when shooting his films. In fact, his medium of choice is the 65mm film stock used predominantly these days for shooting in IMAX.
The filmmaker first used the camera for a major picture on The Dark Knight, and he has employed it in some form on each of his subsequent films. He shot Dunkirk, however, with a combination of Imax and 65mm film. As Nolan explains, the decision resulted in virtually no CGI being used in the film.
Dunkirk wrapped on 2 September 2016, after sixty-eight days. The film was shot in natural lighting using both IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format film stock in Panavision System 65, with more IMAX footage than in any of Nolan's previous films—an estimated seventy-five per cent.
While many moviegoers may assume this was CGI - and many filmmakers surely would've used that option - Nolan opted for the real deal. The big truck flip in The Dark Knight was done without CGI, with the film's crew actually flipping over a semi-truck in the Chicago banking district.
Speaking to Toronto Sun in 2019, Bale shared that both he and Nolan had a "one film at a time" mentality when developing the Dark Knight franchise, and also revealed that Nolan often mentioned that, should they be "fortunate [enough] to be able to make three," they would stop.
Though Nolan's trilogy has earned itself a reputation as a grounded take on the Dark Knight, it still relies heavily on aspects of science fiction. Many of the gadgets that Batman uses utilize outlandish technology, such as the bat-summoning device in Batman Begins, or the sonar spy program in The Dark Knight.
