‘Precious cargo’: the ultra-rare, 18km-long Oppenheimer Imax reel screening in Melbourne

Christopher Nolan is a champion of Imax 1570, the highest-resolution film format that exists – and Melbourne is showing the only copy in the southern hemisphere

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If Richard Morrison unravelled the Oppenheimer film reel from its new home in Melbourne’s Imax cinema, he wouldn’t have to stop until he reached Sandringham Beach, more than 18 kms away.

He won’t be doing that.