Apollo 11 (Documentary)

[CelluloidPal]

Brought my ticket for the Thursday preview showing.

This looks to be out of this world.

[harpolini]

This looks so incredible, I'm always amazed how much new footage keep being uncovered giving a fresh take on historic NASA era.

I thought "For All Mankind" complied some amazing footage, as well as the remastered footage from the also excellent "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions."

But a chance to see 70mm shot footage in a theater, I'm there!

[Omegaice]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

Brought my ticket for the Thursday preview showing.

This looks to be out of this world.

Got my tickets to see this on February 28th in IMAX 70MM! Looking forward to this!

[xbs2034]

I saw it in IMAX laser tonight with a q+a with the Director after as well. He talked a bit about the technical details that at first their plan was to scan the footage at 4K when it was 16 and 35mm material they had, but when they got access to large format material in May 2017, the scanner mentioned if they waited 6 months they could scan that material at 16K, which he of course decided to do and said they were speechless for hours when first reviewing the material.

He talked about his love of large format films of the 50s and 60s and Cinerama so he was very happy to be working with that kind of film and releasing on IMAX (which he views as the modern day version of those formats). He also mentioned part of his influence in how to handle the narrative (without much set up or a narrator) was inspired by Nolan’s Dunkirk and again mentioned Dunkirk and Darkest Hour as examples of films which came out close together about the same events which he thought were both great and why he felt there was room for this and First Man close together (though he knew First Man would get more attention).