When you hear the word IMAX, there’s a fair chance your mind immediately wanders to the blockbusters so often fronted by Disney: the MCU and the Star Wars movies. But Thomas M. Wright, the writer/director behind Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) competition highlight The Stranger, thinks we are underestimating the potential of the form.
‘We ran tests on it and talked about the technical issues and how to get over them,’ he recalls. ‘It’s a really immersive way to watch a film because it reaches to the limits of your peripheral vision, and my feeling is that it can work just as well for drama or anything else. It’s pretty arbitrary that it’s been designated for large-scale films.’
