'Dunkirk' is coming home — and back to theaters
Happy Black Friday! Do you need a gift idea for that super film nerd in your family? The one with the newest TV, the loudest sound system and the movie posters all over the walls? Warner Bros. Home Entertainment just announced a doozy that will hit stores Dec. 19.
The Christopher Nolan Collection includes seven films by the director who spent part of his formative years in Evanston. Retailing for $149.99, the boxed set gives you the films in three formats: 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, for the videophiles and audiophiles; standard Blu-ray; and digital HD that can be redeemed on your platform of choice. (How do I watch 4K Ultra HD movies, you ask? You need a 4K television and a 4K Blu-ray player.)
“Dunkirk,” Nolan's intense summer blockbuster about the evacuation of Allied troops from a French beach in World War II, caps off a collection that also includes all three films of Nolan's Batman trilogy (“Batman Begins,” “The Dark Knight” and “The Dark Knight Rises”), the Leonardo DiCaprio mind-heist thriller “Inception,” the Matthew McConaughey space adventure “Interstellar,” and the Hugh Jackman-Christian Bale magician tale “The Prestige.”
Speaking of “Dunkirk” ...
Nolan's latest film figures to loom large over awards season. If you missed it on the big screen this summer, you don't have to wait until Dec. 19's Blu-ray release; it will be available across all digital platforms one week earlier on Dec. 12.
If you want to see it even earlier, it will be back in select IMAX and 70 mm theaters on Dec. 1; no locations have yet been announced, but Chicago is one of the markets promised by Warner Bros. On Jan. 24 — one day after the Oscar nominations are announced — the film will expand to 250 more locations.
• Sean Stangland is a Daily Herald multiplatform editor. Follow him on Twitter at @SeanStanglandDH.