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Autumn Durald Arkapaw Is the First Woman DP to Shoot in IMAX — with ‘Sinners,’ It’s 65mm on Steroids
Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw discusses the 'immersive' and 'engaging' experience of shooting IMAX and Ultra Panavision 70 for the first time.
As Coogler and Durald Arkapaw immediately began planning their visual strategy, though, they realized “Sinners'” otherworldly take on the Jim Crow South and the macabre impact of the blues as “the devil’s music” demanded the larger expanse of 65mm. ‘Sinners’ with IMAX camera and director Ryan Coogler Eli Adé They went to FotoKem and looked at 70mm prints of “2001: A Space” and “The Hateful Eight,” the Quentin Tarantino Western that revived the seldom-used Ultra Panavision 70 after nearly 50 years (best exemplified by “Ben-Hur”). But the movie’s extraordinary highlight in IMAX is a surreal musical scene inside the juke that occurs when Sammie makes his electrifying debut with the blues song, “I Lied to You” (from composer Ludwig Göransson and Grammy-winning songwriter Rafael Sadik).
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