The Vergecast · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Charles Pulliam-Moore highlights the immersive experience of IMAX, particularly when films are shot on 70mm film. He notes that this format allows for expansive shots that can make viewers feel truly pulled into the image, referencing films like 'Sinners' as examples of its effective use.
“So you're gonna get a really high quality picture and depending on the specific film that you're seeing, uh, seeing something that's shot on 70 millimeter, truly can, it's almost hard to put into words, um, and I know that we're talking about The Odyssey right now specifically, but I think the last time that there was a really big sort of public push to go see something that was shot in IMAX, at least partially, was Sinners, right?”
“Um, and the big appeal with that film was that the scenes that were shot in IMAX, it was like, 15 per, 15 perforation, 15 perforation per minute, 70 millimeter, um, was that it lent itself to these wide expansive shots, right?”
“Of just like, the country in the South, right? It really makes you sort of like, feel what it means to have to drive through an old dirt road as you're just trying to get somewhere.”