‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way
Corey AtadCultureJul 25, 2026 6:00 AMThe Odyssey Was Made for Imax 70mm. Levels of FOMO are off the charts.That’s partly because The Odyssey is the first feature film shot entirely on Imax film with Imax cameras. For the uninitiated, the Imax film format takes an already large 65-mm film negative and runs it through the camera horizontally, resulting in an image 15 perforations wide compared to the standard 5 perf.
- ▪Corey AtadCultureJul 25, 2026 6:00 AMThe Odyssey Was Made for Imax 70mm.
- ▪Levels of FOMO are off the charts.That’s partly because The Odyssey is the first feature film shot entirely on Imax film with Imax cameras.
- ▪For the uninitiated, the Imax film format takes an already large 65-mm film negative and runs it through the camera horizontally, resulting in an image 15 perforations wide compared to the standard 5 perf.
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Corey AtadCultureJul 25, 2026 6:00 AMThe Odyssey Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That WayOver the last several years, the Imax format has taken on a few different forms—but only a few dozen theaters are capable of screening it in its full glory.Photograph: Peter Fleming/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyChristopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in Imax 70mm is the hottest club in town, if you can get in.While Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic is available on thousands of screens around the world, there are only 41—including 25 in the US—that can offer it in full Imax 70mm glory. Many of those are sold out for weeks.
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