Khartoum (1966)
Directed by Basil Dearden
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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I’m in awe of Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson for reviving the Ultra Panavision 70 process used on Ben-Hur in 1959 and defunct since Khartoum in 1966—curiously dispatched in service of what is essentially a filmed play, most of which takes place indoors.
AND on top of all that, film geek and aficionado Tarantino has shot the film on film in Ultra Panavision, a process using lenses last employed in 1966 for the Cinerama Roadshow Khartoum.
Much has been made of Tarantino's decision to shoot the movie in Ultra Panavision 70, a wide-screen format last employed nearly 50 years ago on a Charlton Heston epic called Khartoum .
(There hasn’t been a movie shot with these Ultra Panavision lenses since “Khartoum” in 1966.)
Not since the 1966 movie "Khartoum," with Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier, has a film been shot in Ultra Panavision 70 format.
The 70mm release certainly represents a very particular type of film buff event (the last “Cinerama” film to be shot on Ultra Panavision 70 was Khartoum in 1966), but how special it will be to a generation accustomed to Imax 3D and other modern experiential sensations remains an open question.