(It’s the first Nolan movie in years where you can actually hear all the dialogue.) But by blowing those conversations up so much larger than life, to the point where Cillian Murphy’s eyes are not just the color but the size of swimming pools, Nolan underlines how seemingly mundane or undramatic events, the kind movies often don’t even bother with, can have absolutely massive consequences. While the Trinity test does fill the theater floor to ceiling with a cloud of nuclear fire, the movie is largely driven by conversations. But where most IMAX movies are solely interested in exploiting its capacity for spectacle-making the big things bigger and the loud things louder- Oppenheimer is up to something different. In both the Fission and Fusion sections, the movie switches between widescreen and full-frame images, a long, thin rectangle and something closer to a square-a technique he has been using since 2008’s The Dark Knight.
If you live in Manhattan, well, you’d better hope someone who’s already got tickets has a death in the family, and even then, they might charge you upwards of $100 apiece. (One Twitter user posted a since-deleted video shot from a front-row seat in which Cillian Murphy’s face appeared swollen like a deformed balloon.) At the theater nearest me, there are still a few good seats left on the last day of the run-as long as you’re willing to start a three-hour movie at 11 on a weeknight. And because of the sheer size of the image, which often opens up from a thin rectangle to fill the IMAX screen’s entire floor-to-ceiling height, you can rule out the first few rows in many theaters, which offer a distorted and decidedly nonoptimal experience. Because of the delicate nature of the IMAX prints, which weigh 600 pounds and are 11 miles long-so long that the platters that feed the film into the projector had to be fitted with custom 3D-printed extensions-most theaters have guaranteed the movie only for a three-week run. First, live near one of the 30 theaters in the entire world where it’s being projected on 70 mm IMAX film, a format whose almost hyperreal resolution leads Nolan to call it “3D without the glasses.” Then, buy a ticket.
If you want to see Oppenheimer the way Christopher Nolan wanted it to be seen, here’s what you need to do.
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