IMAX Melbourne Is Hosting a New Film Festival Filled with the Best Flicks to See on Its Huge Screen
'2001: A Space Odyssey', 'Oppenheimer', Christopher Nolan's full 'Dark Knight' trilogy, 'Moonage Daydream', 'Stop Making Sense': they're all screening.
IMAX devotees aren't just big-screen obsessives. Rather, they're massive-screen obsessives. When a film is available in the largest possible format, only that will do. Everyone has a movie-loving friend that wouldn't see Oppenheimer anywhere else, or David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream, Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick before that. IMAX Melbourne's brand-new film festival is obviously for them — and everyone else as well.
Meet the Biggest Best IMAX Film Festival, an event dedicated to the biggest and best titles that the venue can possibly play on its 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen. It's the world's largest 1.43:1 cinema screen, and it's getting flickering with those aforementioned pictures and a heap more from Friday, January 12 until mid-February.
Iconic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense is the first movie on the lineup, but the official opening night on Saturday, January 13 is going with one helluva huge double feature: Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. Still on pairings, Tom Cruise's (Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One) latest need for speed is showing with the OG Top Gun. And Christopher Nolan's full Dark Knight trilogy in IMAX 1570 (the highest resolution available, going up to 16K, with Melbourne the only place in the country that can show it) is for those serious about seeing the three Batman flicks in the greatest way there is.
Oppenheimer is screening in IMAX 1570 as well, making an explosive picture even more dazzling. The Golden Globe-winner and certain Oscar contender sold out 171 sessions at the venue, notching up 66,000-plus tickets, and is the site's highest-grossing movie ever.
From there, regular IMAX options include the Lord of the Rings trilogy and TRON: Legacy. Of course 2001: A Space Odyssey is on the list; it has to be. More films are set to be added as well, as chosen by both IMAX Melbourne's staff and via people's choice picks.
"BBIFF is bringing back classic movies that need to be witnessed on the biggest screen in the southern hemisphere. We've put together an impressive line-up of the best and biggest trilogies, double headers and special one-off screenings," said IMAX Melbourne General Manager Jeremy Fee.
The Biggest Best IMAX Film Festival takes place at IMAX Melbourne, Melbourne Museum Precinct, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Gardens, Carlton South from Friday, January 12 until mid-February — head to the venue's website for tickets and more information.
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