Inside the ‘Oppenheimer’ Imax 70mm Craze: Fans Crossing State Lines, the Search for New Projectors and More
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variety.comEthan Shanfeld Ryan Knapp woke up before sunrise one morning in July and left his home in northern New Hampshire at 5:30 a.m.
to catch a movie. It wasn’t just any day at the cinema. In fact, it was a 14-hour round-trip journey that involved crossing two state lines by car, train and bus.
That’s because Knapp wanted to see Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” the way the director intended: in Imax 70mm, a rare format crafted from Nolan’s film negative, with physical reels spanning 11 miles and weighing 600 pounds.
It’s a movie nerd’s dream — but it’s only available on 30 screens worldwide, 19 of them in the U.S. So Knapp trekked to Providence, R.I., for a 2 p.m.
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