Never has a film been shot entirely in the large-scale IMAX format before. Many films have shot sequences in IMAX, or significant portions. But never has every single image of one single film – whether a jaw-dropping landscape, or a close-up of a face – been captured on those super-sized cameras. Until now. Of course, Christopher Nolan was the man to do it, in his latest collaboration with master cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. Yes, The Odyssey is the very first film shot front-to-back on IMAX cameras – and it was a new bit of kit that made it possible.

To prove it would all work as intended, van Hoytema delivered Nolan a little bit of David Bowie magic (for more David Bowie magic, see The Prestige ). “I presented Chris with a very big close-up of a child on the IMAX screen, reci

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