Listen up students, Professor Coogler is present for class and ready to lay down some knowledge. In promotion of his upcoming horror film, “Sinners,” writer/director Ryan Coogler has released a video with Kodak that lays out not only all the formats audiences can view it in in theaters, but also what each experience offers. Fans of traditional film stock will also rejoice, as Coogler goes into detail about what makes its use so special. Watch the video below.
“I’m really excited to announce that ‘Sinners’ was captured on film,” said Coogler. “That’s a format that I fell in love with when I was in film school, so I brought a few film strips along here.”
Coogler proceeded to showcase the four sizes of film stock, starting with Super 8mm, which he described as more for “home videos,” though it still provides a “really beautiful aesthetic.” From there, the “Black Panther” director went on to display a piece of Super 16mm film.
“This is a type of film that’s very close to my heart,” he said. “This is what we shot ‘Fruitville Station’ on and it’s crazy because this is the same material [as 8mm] just a little bit wider and when a capture film gets wider — same as digital photography — what happens is you get a little bit more resolution and you get a shallower depth of field, meaning less of the image is in focus at any particular time.”
Highlighting its use in recent films like Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning “Anora,” Coogler detailed 35mm as the format on which “a lot of masterpieces” were shot. “Sinners,” however, was shot on what Coogler calls “the big boy format,” 65mm.
“The same material as this, as a Super 8 right here, but just wider, so obviously even more resolution, even shallower depth of field, and these perforations have a particular meaning cause we shot the film using two different camera systems, one proprietary to Panavision — it’s called Ultra Panavision 70, used on films like ‘Ben-Hur and most recently ‘The Hateful Eight’ — but another format we use is IMAX film cameras.”
Whereas Ultra Panavision 70 allows for more width of frame, IMAX film cameras produce greater height Coogler explained, and since “Sinners” is the first film to utilize both, it will literally be one of the biggest films to ever be put to the screen. Later in the video, Coogler also showcases the ways in which “Sinners” will be projected, ranging from standard digital to 4DX and even Immersive Cinema, as well as locations for where people can catch the picture actually projected on film.
Watch Coogler’s entire video below.
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