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 returning film festival is obviously for them — and everyone else as well. If you didn't head along in 2024, 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 some of those aforementioned pictures and a heap more on various dates until the beginning of March 2025. Iconic Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense is one must-see movie on the lineup, but it has plenty of impressive company. Animated masterpiece Akira, Titanic in 3D, Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One and Top Gun: Maverick, Australia's own Mad Max: Fury Road, sci-fi great The Matrix, the iconic Apocalypse Now: they're all on the program. So are a stack of Christopher Nolan films, such as Inception, Interstellar and Tenet, plus the full Dark Knight trilogy, all in IMAX 1570 (the highest resolution available, going up to 16K, with Melbourne the only place in the country that can show it). Or, catch a double of Dune and Dune: Part Two, then go blue with Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water. Of course 2001: A Space Odyssey is on the list as well — it has to be.
