To film buffs who are buffs, specifically, of film — of movies shot and projected with a physical, photochemical product — comparing IMAX 70-millimeter to IMAX digital, let alone standard digital, is like comparing lightning to the lightning bug.
“It’s how much of the image you’re missing if you see it on another screen,” said Birlidis, a former theater manager.
The first time he saw the 1982 film “Blade Runner,” one of his favorites, he added, was on a pirated VHS tape.
He can cite several IMAX 70-millimeter destinations off-the-cuff.
(The AMC Metreon in San Francisco is “a wonderfully huge screen.”) He knew Brooklyn has one of the roughly 100 theaters showing “Oppenheimer” in ordinary 70-millimeter film — an “absolutely beautiful” print, he said.
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