The iPhone Duo is the perfect screen to watch the full Imax version of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’

The Odyssey is so far the biggest movie of the year after Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It was also too big for your friendly neighborhood theater: Most people on the planet missed as much as 40% of the movie because it was filmed in Imax 70 mm’s 1.43:1 aspect ratio, a squarish shape that got cut at the top and bottom in all but 41 Imax theaters around the planet. I know people who flew from Madrid to London just to watch it. That’s money they could have spent on buying an iPhone Duo which, magically, perfectly fits Nolan’s favorite film format. That’s right. Apple’s new thingamajig has an inner-screen ratio of 1.4217:1 in landscape mode. Nolan filmed The Odyssey on a format called “15-perforation 70 mm Imax,” which is 1.43:1. Nolan chose these cameras—as he did for Oppenheimer—because “the sharpness and the clarity and the depth of the image is unparalleled,” he said. “You’re immersing them in the world of the film.” Top: a still from The Odyssey. Bottom: an image of an open iPhone Duo. [Images: Apple, Universal Pictures] The gap between the 15-perf 70 mm Imax format and the iPhone Duo’s inner display is just 0.6%. A full-frame 1.43:1 Imax image scaled to the Duo’s 2,670-pixel width…