A24 is bringing its most stressful movies to IMAX
Who wouldn’t want to see Uncut Gems, Ex Machina, and Hereditary in the country’s biggest and loudest auditoriums?
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IMAX, the motion picture format that causes smartwatches across these United States to alert wearers to that watching Dune: Part Two is damaging their ears, will soon host monthly group panic attacks thanks to A24. The movie studio that’s gone from indie darling to Best Picture winner is kicking off a series of monthly IMAX screenings. The first three pictures getting the big old screen treatment will surely give heart palpitations: Ex Machina, Hereditary, and Uncut Gems.
The first in the series, Ex Machina, will be released on March 27 for one night only on 300 IMAX screens in the U.S. and even a few outside the country. This first release will serve as a bit of promotion for director Alex Garland’s latest for A24, Civil War. Screenings of Ex Machina, which Garland also directed, will include an exclusive first look at Civil War, which opens April 12.
Over the next two months, A24 will ratchet up the tension for those willing to subject themselves to watching Ari Aster’s Hereditary and the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems on such a big screen with such loud speakers. Hereditary opens on April 24 and Uncut Gems on May 2. So, for those looking to watch some decapitations or see Adele Dazeem Idina Manzel tell Adam Sander that he’s “the most annoying person I have ever met. I hate being with you. I hate looking at you” on the largest screen possible can do so.
The program will run over the next year with A24 pulling heaters from their library of 140 features. Will there be some deep cuts in there? Maybe Under The Silver Lake or even the quiet serenity of First Cow will get runs. Or, perhaps the studio can do a misery month and re-release The Whale and First Reformed. The possibilities are endless.
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very very cool. Now bring on Good Time to take the edge off
I love “Ex Machina” and might go for that in IMAX.
It’s been years but Hereditary still lives rent free in my head.
Uncut Gems doesn’t seem like it really needs the full IMAX experience.
Yeah, Ex Machina will look great in IMAX. It has incredible design and cinematography. There is a reason for Ex Machina to be on a big, immersive screen.There is no reason for Uncut Gems to be on IMAX. It’s not a visually impressive film. It is sonically loud. That’s about the best thing I can say for Uncut Gems (OK, I get what Uncut Gems was trying to do…I just found it an entirely unpleasant viewing experience and you could not pay me enough money to sit through that film again).
Agreed – I can also see Hereditary. It has some visuals and moments where an immersive experience makes sense. Uncut Gems just seems like a cash grab to get the higher ticket.
An immersive HEREDITARY experience makes sense???
Never saw Hereditary, but Ex Machina and Uncut Gems are incredible films. Were they even shot with IMAX cameras? I doubt it. It sounds like they’ll be doing some weird AI upscaling and aspect ratio cropping just to cram them into a format they weren’t made for. Go see them if you haven’t already, but it sounds like a gimmick that won’t add anything to the experience.