Modern tools bring historical movies to life. Take Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, for example – now available for purchase on 4K and Blu-ray (a format Mr. Nolan prefers over streaming). So much of the conversation around this Golden Globe nominee is that it was best experienced in the cutting-edge IMAX format. And if you could make it to a theater that was screening the film in 70mm IMAX, all the better for you. Yes, the movie is steeped in historical realism, but some amusing modern tricks went into the filming of Oppenheimer – including the use of an iPhone by Nolan’s costume designer, Ellen Mirojnick.
Oppenheimer is Mirojnick’s first feature with Christopher Nolan, though her credits over the years have included Showgirls, Face/Off, The Greatest Showman, and Maleficent. She had her work cut out for her on Oppenheimer, costuming the magnificent cast that had come together for Nolan’s latest, but also accounting for the fact that parts of the film would be filmed in color, and other parts in black and white, to account for the point of view of Robert Downey Jr.’s character, Lewis Strauss. During an exclusive interview with CinemaBlend, Mirojnick explained how she approached this obstacle, and how an iPhone came to her rescue. She said:
