All Rights Reserved. In addition to standard cinemas worldwide, Oppenheimer is released in various analog film formats, including Kodak 70mm film screened in IMAX 30 prints , standard 70mm prints and 35mm approximately 80 prints. Directed, written and co-produced by Nolan, the Universal Pictures production transports viewers back in time to one of the most significant events in world history as theoretical physicist J.
With a running time of three hours, the film depicts Oppenheimer's life and delivers a powerful exploration of the moral complexities, dilemmas and consequences of scientific advances.
Indeed, following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon β codenamed Trinity β at approximately a. Oppenheimer is van Hoytema's fourth collaboration with Nolan, following Interstellar , Dunkirk and Tenet , all of which were variously shot using KODAK 65mm film in IMAX perf format in combination with 65mm 5-perf or 35mm 4-perf analog film formats.
I discovered that he had boiled down the story into a dramaturgical structure that was very personal, intimate and thrilling. In our previous films the emphasis was on the action, but for this film he wanted a very simple, unadorned style to the photography, especially on faces to support the unfolding psychological drama.
Van Hoytema adds, "As we all dug deeper into researching the period and the events, I was particularly interested to learn more about Oppenheimer and the scientists themselves, and to investigate things like the side development of extremely high-speed, ultra-light-sensitive and split-field cameras, plus very long lenses, that were specially-made to record the Trinity explosion. Some described the mushroom cloud like an optical illusion, others how the morning sky was suddenly lit by searing bright white before turning golden yellow, then red to beautiful purple and violet.
