His image onscreen seems to hang in the air, even as it melts into a hyper-real, sun-drenched Afghan village, half a world away.

It’s halftime, night has descended, and onstage, Billy Lynn’s squad stands at attention as Destiny’s Child shimmies and serves up their hits - to the accompaniment of flashpots and celebratory fireworks that cause these rattled young warriors, fresh off the battlefield, to flinch involuntarily with anxiety.īilly slips into a violent flashback. I was too heavily absorbed by an external narrative unfolding with the vividness of internal memory. Then again, I wasn’t about to be distracted by trifles such as tech details. But you could have fooled me… I thought it was perfect. In introducing the clip, Ang noted that color correction was not yet complete. This sneak peek required creating an ad hoc 3D projection room at the Convention Center, complete with dual 4K Christie RGB laser projectors - RGB laser is a must, I’ll explain below - and a deposit box to recycle Dolby 3D glasses. Having been caught on camera in a frenzied firefight with the enemy by an embedded Fox News crew, they’re to be honored for special bravery at a Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game during the halftime entertainment, featuring Destiny’s Child no less.Īng Lee previewed 11 minutes of his latest film last April, to small groups at NAB in Las Vegas.

It tells the story of a 19-year-old Iraq War active-duty soldier, Billy Lynn, and his squad on leave from the battlefield for a two-week media tour. The brief on this technological milestone? Images shot and projected at 120 fps, dual 4K RGB laser projectors that display wide color gamut and high dynamic range, bright RealD 3D, 12-channel audio with overhead speakers plus sub-bass.īilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is adapted from Ben Fountain’s esteemed 2012 satirical war novel (think Joseph Heller). Tonight, Friday, October 14, 2016, the Film Society of Lincoln Center makes cinema history with the New York Film Festival’s world premiere of Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, presented at the 600-seat AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 IMAX theater on its 100-foot-wide screen, the largest in North America. 3D, Ang Lee, Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk, IMAX, Sony F65

The Techno Witch by Alex Letner