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7 / 10 It’s strange to consider that after two decades of making feature films, “Dunkirk” the first production from writer/director Christopher Nolan where he’s the marketable star of the picture. His latest employs famous faces, but no single stratospherically famous person to create buzz and fill seats. It’s all about him, and this is exactly what he’s been looking to achieve throughout the years. “Dunkirk” is a war story but it’s also a disaster film, putting everything it has into a bruising audio and visual experience that’s meant to represent pure cinema from a helmer who’s addicted to the stuf.
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Dunkirk Blu-ray Review World War II—What a Ride! Reviewed by, December 17, 2017 Dunkirk arrives on Blu-ray and UHD amidst a full-court awards press by Warner Brothers and director Christopher Nolan, who are hoping to add a few statuettes to the film's impressive box office. The film is also the vanguard of a massive technical effort to present on UHD, a format of which the director is such an enthusiastic convert that he has personally overseen the 4K preparation of all seven films. It's an interesting turn toward digital presentation for a filmmaker whose commitment to celluloid is legendary and whose movies routinely sport a credit indicating that they have been 'Shot and Finished on Film'.
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With even diehards like Steven Spielberg choosing the digital intermediate route for post-production, Nolan has become the most eminent holdout to remain committed to achieving his artistic vision by photochemical means. Nolan is also rare among modern-day directors in preferring live action 'in camera' effects over digital trickery, a predilection that is repeatedly stressed throughout the Blu-ray's extensive special features. As a triumph of filmmaking technique and innovation, Dunkirk stands favorable comparison with any of classical Hollywood's epic pre-digital achievements. The question is whether the film effectively grounds its vistas in an emotional immediacy that can breathe life into technical accomplishments which, by themselves, are impressive but soulless. On that score, at least for this viewer, Dunkirk does not succeed. As anyone reading Blu-ray.com probably already knows, Dunkirk was shot with a combination of IMAX 65 and Panavision 65 cameras, and it was released to theaters in a variety of formats, including 70mm, IMAX and IMAX 70mm. It's an ideal source for 4K presentation in the home, and Nolan reportedly regards as its definitive representation on video.
By comparison, the standard Blu-ray, which pushes the 1080p format to its limits, is something of a poor stepchild. It's been prepared with exquisite care under Nolan's supervision, and it's a superb presentation, but there's only so much resolution and refinement that Blu-ray can offer, especially with a large-negative source such as Dunkirk. After I saw Dunkirk theatrically—in 70mm, seated dead center in front of a three-story-high IMAX screen—I described it to friends and family as the opening sequence of extended to feature length. Having now rewatched Nolan's passion project on Blu-ray and UHD, I realize that my earlier description was inaccurate. Like Steven Spielberg in Ryan, Nolan has skillfully deployed vast cinematic resources to plunge the viewer into a maelstrom inspired by a historic World War II engagement, but Spielberg's effort remained anchored in a form of traditional storytelling that has all but disappeared in Dunkirk.
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