Only nine Canadian cinemas can show Nolan’s The Odyssey in original 70‑mm IMAX
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
EMILY WILSON367Calyoso: the very lovely therapist, doles out great psychiatric drugs, and you may stay in treatment for many years. Who knows which memories of your trauma are real?
French Tiktoker saying "burger"50As an angeleno I have to contest this reading. Nolan's Odyssey can't be about LA, there's too much rain in it.
Padre Florecita47I actually used to explain LA traffic to people as "It's like a city composed of islands, and the cars are boats. When the current and the wind is against you, you simply cannot get there from here."
Goat In The Garden20When he gazed up at the horse, recalling all the horrors that came after the ruse, I whispered to my partner - "the horse is tRump!"
paulf77577.cryptoanarchy.network18I need The LA Odyssey directed by Boots Riley
Jon Webb6The film makes much more sense to me, thanks. I guess the part about Aeolus (which he left out) would correspond to getting a lifetime achievement award for child acting. And the ending, sailing off into the sunset, will match the experience of a post-menopausal actress.
Joseph Rezek13This is the final word on the subject. No more posting
Margarita11We are blessed and live to see Emily Wilson posting about The Odyssey (film) on Bluesky.
STEAMLORD6Omg why did not one tell me she’s here!!!
Evelyn Waughluigi6In hindsight it's obvious given that "This ain't no disco. It ain't no country club either. This is Ithaca" is the very first line of the poem
Tim Carmody5At the end, Matt Damon tearfully confesses “we are the traffic”
TH5A thread worth your time.
S.J. Pearce5I haven’t seen the movie yet but I love this take on it.
Killian4Thread from the translator. 😂
Andrew McRae3The whole thing about Odysseus being unable to sail home reflects what it's like trying to navigate a Trader Joe's parking lot
Ross A. Lincoln 2Literally begging people who come to LA to visit one place outside of Beverly Hills, Silver Lake, Beechwood or Malibu or just stop talking about us.
The Odyssey has the potential to be a culture war turning point loss for the Right partially because I really don’t think Christopher Nolan has any desire to be a ‘woke’ director. He literally just wanted to make a massive movie with the best actors he could find
Matthew Downhour 119Some of them are Black & one is trans and truly I don’t think he was making a statement because I don’t think he cares for much discourse beyond his films. But, a) he got attacked for being functionally colorblind (the thing the right always claims is better than being race conscious)
Daryl Sng15Also as a central message "Western civilisation is good, but these warmongering chuds keep trying to bring it down" might be even more devastating message for them than simply a pure 'woke' movie (whatever that might mean)
Only Half Joshing12Definitely feels like if 300 was the start of the fascist surge tide then Nolan’s Odyssey marks its ebb.
socalbookish.bsky.social7I just think the rw doesn't have the juice anymore
Alexander1Yeah I don’t think a director who threw a tantrum and demanded his movie be released in theaters during quarantine is woke.
Jesus, w/new name, is now God. I’m his son1It’s about false gods. Nolan loves fake gods!
Lord Piss8nolan is famously conservative! the dark knight is a pro-patriot act allegory. the mere sight of brown skin in a movie turns them into shrieking baboons
The Vegapunk of Hyenas6It should be noted Nolan is infamous for his refusal to predetermine who he wants his cast to be Whatever you think of the choices, him and the casting director really did decide they were the best ones
Another Cinna2Artists make art because they have a profound relationship with the sources & materials & want to open them up to the world. Can be selfish; may well be generous. Fascists make art because they have a profound relationship with themselves and want to shape the world in their own image. Are selfish.
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁2I think the chud class, especially the YouTube video essayists among them, are used to clowning on slop Disney productions. But that ain't Christopher Nolan
what a great article — I had no idea about any of this. There are only 25 IMAX 70mm theaters in all of America!! They can’t make new IMAX projectors because they don’t have the plans anymore! They had to track down broken ones ahead of “The Odyssey” and fix them!! variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Adam Sternbergh30some people wondering why they can't just take apart an existing camera and reverse-engineer and manufacture new ones that way. good question! because the machines to make the parts required also no longer exist! and very few of the people who knew how it all worked together are still around either
Giant Space Ants6If there are existing operational units, how can they not figure this out by just taking one apart to see what's inside and how everything fits together? Seems like more of a profitability problem than an engineering one
Premium Steve5“They don’t have the plans” doesn’t make a ton of sense when working ones exist Surely they could simply disassemble one and solve this mystery, unless they’re also unable to put it back together
onekade4Coolidge Corner Cinema in Brookline is our local! The best
C3I’ve seen so much “why is there one in Chattanooga” and like, because aquarium. That screen primarily shows “The Wonders of Our Oceans” or whatever every hour.
Chris Otto (Papergreat)2Saw One Battle After Another on IMAX 70mm here in Phoenix area. It was stunning.
Managed to find tickets to an Imax 70mm showing of the Odyssey for two weeks time - early afternoon on a weekday with restricted view. But still like getting a ticket to the fucking chocolate factory.
Stephen8I'm waiting till it is on netflix so I can watch it on my phone as Nolan intended.
Liz Anderson4This and getting tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry has nearly broken me.
mdmc24.bsky.social3I’m just back from watching it in a regular cinema setting. It was great and the storytelling was a triumph. Yes, the scale of it all was a feature, and I’m sure Imax will really capture that, but it’s the storytelling that is the centrepiece that makes this movie.
Mike Friedman3Come to New Orleans. You can buy tickets for today. (Of course we're about to get hit by Tropical Storm Bertha but it's not a big deal....)
Mark O’Neill 🐻2You do realise what a "restricted view" means? Nemo
Paul2Are you a hundred percent certain it's not in Bradford?
As a certified Nolan hater I regret to inform you the ODUSSY is bussin. boxd.it/fnQe7h
Abe Goldfarb5It whips so hard. The entire third act is just a daisy chain of payoffs. Relentless.
MadameNostalgic✨Tanya2I'm seeing it tonight. I'm actually MORE excited knowing how you feel about Nolan. lol
Martin O'Leary1Stop making me want to see it, everyone! (I’m totally seeing it next week. Sigh…)
Henry T. Casey1It’s my fourth favorite behind dark knight, prestige, and memento
BruceWayneBrady1I finished the audiobook a few hours before I saw it. And the things in the movie were better images than I'd imagined while listening to it. That man made parts of that a horror movie. Three hours has never been more engaging for me.
Becks1You…you just went and posted it? 🙃
One additional thought re Odyssey. Between what he did with Oppenheimer and what he has now down with the Odyssey, it’s deeply encouraging to see Nolan mature away from cutesy linear convolutions and toward the deeper ethics and lessons that undergird these stories. He’s going all the way.
Screamer Jim11It’s very nice to see his storytelling method cohere in service to The Lesson, rather than distracting from or avoiding it altogether
Bathroom Barry2This was my thought coming out of the theater
Mark Paul Oleksiw1I beleive Nolan is using his built up goodwill to make movies on a spiritual level. I look forward to his next creation.
kaitlin1so much i wanna say in agreement but something i really liked is how the calypso stuff feels like such a matured version of leo's arc in inception. a man as desperate to forget his sins as he is to find his way home, etc.
Weekday matinees are the best. Most people are there to watch the movie and it will generally be 80% empty. I saw THE ODYSSEY on opening day in 70mm at 11 am and I’d say it was 1/3 full. And I bought my ticket that morning.
Jesse Hawken16Last week I went to a mid afternoon screening of OBSESSION which had been playing for over 2 months and there might have been 40 of us and we were all in the palm of the movie’s hand, must have been amazing to see in a packed theatre
Doug Joubert1i’m a matinee person myself and it’s so nice to have the theater to yourself. Unless I’m in the mood for something with audience participation and then I go to AMC not @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social
andimalloutofbubblegum1Saw it on Tuesday at 10 AM. Mostly full when I booked it a day before.
I didn't know if The Odyssey would be good - and honestly, I still won't know until I watch it. But Nolan made it, so I knew it wouldn't be slop. If it's bad, at least it'll be bad for unique and interesting reasons.
Buddy Goodboy, Esq.3Yeah, I don't always agree with his directing choices, but I assume at a baseline that thought went into them, and when you're adapting a work to film, that's the kind of thing I'm interested in seeing it for. What did you focus on, what was important to keep or change?
EllieNewfie.2As someone who’s seen it and also might want to see it again, it kept my attention the entire time. I was glued to the screen the entire.
Disney Animation was developing its own adaptation of ‘THE ODYSSEY’ in the early '90s. (via boardwalktimes.net/disney-anima...)
Canadian Tokusatsu Donald10Since they turned Hercules into a full on Superman proxy with comedic music interludes, and with current trends going on at the time….
🧡Jessica the Bounty Hunter🧡 (Disability Pride Month ❤)9I wonder what it would have been look like or would it be serious or with comedy and music in it
SJWJamesBond7I wonder what that would have been like.
Evan Richard Ferguson6Which I did know that for quite a while actually that Disney was developing their own version of the Odyssey before they decide to develop Hercules instead very fascinating!
moviefan2002.bsky.social5While I have known about this subject for a while now, I can sort of understand to why their version wouldn't work and they ended up doing Hercules instead.
