'Filmmaker Mode' is Coming to a TV Near You | No Film School

We've all had to deal with the scourge that is motion smoothing. We've fixed the TVs at our friends' apartments, alerted our significant others, and sent lengthy emails to our parents.

But the real fight was with manufacturers. Those were the big boys, so we needed a proverbial Magnificent Seven Samurai to take them on.

Enter Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Patty Jenkins, Ryan Coogler, Martin Scorsese, Rian Johnson, and the DGA.

God, I'm so happy there were seven things to write there.

Anyway, these bastions of hope stepped in to preserve the cinematic integrity of their projects.

And we love them for it.

So how can they save us from motion smoothing?

Meet "filmmaker mode," an effort to “preserve the cinematic representation of images as the filmmakers intended when it comes to color, contrast, aspect ratio, and frame rates.”

Hell yes.

Rian Johnson made the announcement about the epic change in the way we watch cinema at home, saying, “The thing that sets Filmmaker Mode apart is it will be a pure, clean expression of what the movie was meant to look like when it was made.”

This is obviously great news, but how did it happen?

Well, at CES in Vegas, the UHD Alliance announced that they had made strides after working with these directors and are excited to debut the new mode on Samsung, Philips/TP Vision, Kaleidescape, LG, Panasonic, and Vizio devices. They'll be in 2020 products. LG will include Filmmaker Mode in all of its new 4K and 8K TVs this year. Panasonic’s 2020 OLED TVs will also include the TV setting.

Good things do happen!

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What's the Hype With 'Interstellar' Revisiting Cinemas After a Decade in 70mm IMAX?

Here's Why You Need to Revisit 'Interstellar' in 70mm IMAX

Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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