The Quattro Fontane Cinema in Rome will be the only room in Lazio to screen Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in the special 70 mm format, advance sales open from today 14 July at 4.00 pm.
To the Quattro Fontane cinema in Rome a unique and unforgettable experience awaits the eager audience for the release of Oppenheimerfilm written and directed by Christopher Nolanin theaters from August 23rd: the new feature film by the Oscar-nominated director will be screened in the special format 70 mm. The Quattro Fontane is the only cinema in Rome and in Lazio, together with three others in Italy, which will offer vision in 70 mm. Pre-sales will open today 14 July, at 16:00, at the cinema ticket office and online on the Circuito Cinema website.
What is Oppenheimer talking about
Oppenheimer is a historical thriller filmed in IMAX that takes audiences into the gripping paradoxical story of an enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
Initial reactions to Oppenheimer speak of a stunning masterpiece. The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Academy Award winner Matt Damon plays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, founding commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
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Oppenheimer stars Academy Award winner Rami Malek and this film sees Nolan reunite with eight-time Academy Award nominated actor, writer and director Kenneth Branagh. The cast also includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich and Matthew Modine.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment and Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer is shot in both IMAX 65mm and 65mm large format film which includes, for the first time ever, sections in black and white IMAX analog photography.
