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Tickets for Elysium are now on sale for the movie early opening at IMAX on August 8th.
If you live in Rockland or Bergen County you have likely been to the IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center for a movie. Perhaps it was a documentary or nature film or it could have been a blockbuster such as Harry Potter or Mission Impossible. Regardless of the movie content, you probably left feeling as though it was a bigger movie experience than you had before.
What you may not realize is that the IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center is home to an IMAX GT Projection System capable of showing the highest resolution 15/70 film for the sharpest movie experience possible. The IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center is a gem right here in Rockland County and we are lucky to have it. In fact it is one of only 100 movie theatres in the country capable of showing movies such as Batman: The Dark Knight Rises the way director intended it to be seen.
To clarify a few points, GT stands for Grand Theatre. The IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center was constructed to be a stand-alone IMAX Theatre and was not retrofitted from another theatre format. The film that is used is 70mm and the 15 stands for the number of sprocket holes in each frame which actually run across the top and bottom vs. the sides so the film feeds horizontally through the projection system. The film is ten times larger with ten times the resolution of conventional film. This means greater, more vivid detail thanks also to the increased light that the system is able to take advantage of; twice the brightness of a regular screen. This becomes important when you consider films like Batman: The Dark Knight. Director Christopher Nolan understands film. He knows that in order to immerse movie goers into the movie they must feel surrounded by the visual experience and the sound so that they feel they are actually part of the scene.
According to a recent New York Times article, “To grasp the image clarity, consider a home HD television screen with 1,920 pixels of horizontal resolution. An IMAX frame, meanwhile, has a resolution upward of 18,000 pixels, said David Keighley, chief quality officer for IMAX.”
The IMAX GT projector weighs 2 tons and is housed in a room on the third floor of IMAX Palisades with a window so audiences can actually visit and view the process of showing an IMAX movie and the enormous round platters which hold the film. Interestingly the film usually arrives in many boxes and must be spliced together by hand using white gloves in order to protect the film and put it together properly so it can then be ‘spun’ onto the giant platters. Avatar arrived in more than 90 boxes and had it been laid out end to end, it would have extended from the Palisades Mall to the George Washington Bridge!
It is interesting that 14 years after the IMAX Theatre at Palisades Center was constructed, movie directors are just now starting to take advantage of the possibilities of shooting with IMAX cameras.
The IMAX advantage is attracting attention of other movie-makers and the upcoming sequels to “Star Trek” and “The Hunger Games” will include portions shot in IMAX. If you live in Rockland or Bergen County you can experience the real IMAX difference every day. Elysium tickets are on sale now. The Theatre also offers group rates and opportunities for area organizations to host fundraisers at the theatre. For more information visit www.imax.com/palisades.
