Autumn Durald Arkapaw Is the First Woman Dp to Shoot in IMAX — with ‘Sinners,’ It’s 65mm on Steroids
For Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending vampire film, “Sinners,” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw shot 65mm on steroids in both IMAX and Ultra Panavision 70. Durald Arkapaw is now the first female Dp able to embrace shooting 15-perf IMAX 65mm — with hopefully many more to come. The film was also the first pairing of IMAX with the anamorphic Ultra Panavision 70 on the same film.
The result is one of extreme, almost heady disparity in aspect ratios (1.43:1 for IMAX 65mm and 2.76:1 for Ultra Panavision 70) that allow the film to emphasize both its period trappings and supernatural atmosphere. Yet Coogler didn’t originally conceive of “Sinners” in large format. The director first thought of the film as being a good fit for 16mm.
“Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan as twin gangsters Smoke and Stack, who flee Al Capone’s Chicago to open up a juke joint back home in Clarksdale, Mississippi. As Coogler...
The result is one of extreme, almost heady disparity in aspect ratios (1.43:1 for IMAX 65mm and 2.76:1 for Ultra Panavision 70) that allow the film to emphasize both its period trappings and supernatural atmosphere. Yet Coogler didn’t originally conceive of “Sinners” in large format. The director first thought of the film as being a good fit for 16mm.
“Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan as twin gangsters Smoke and Stack, who flee Al Capone’s Chicago to open up a juke joint back home in Clarksdale, Mississippi. As Coogler...
- 4/19/2025
- by Bill Desowitz
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