3 premium screens

Santa Clara

There are 3 premium screens in Santa Clara, across Dolby Cinema, IMAX and Chain premium screen. The biggest picture is at AMC Mercado 20 & IMAX — 159 m² of lit screen.

No room here can show the full 1.43:1 IMAX frame. Every screen in Santa Clara crops to 1.90 or wider, so a film shot with IMAX cameras will be missing about a quarter of its picture wherever you see it.

Ranked

Scored on the picture each room actually lights, not the fabric it is painted on. A tilde means the projector rests on a single dated source.

B
Dolby Cinema at AMC Mercado 20Dolby Cinemasize unpublished
C
AMC Mercado 20 & IMAXIMAX Commercial Laser17.4 × 9.5 m159 m² lit picture
C
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Valley FairChain premium screensize unpublished

Choosing in Santa Clara

Worth leaving Santa Clara for

AMC Metreon 16 IMAX is 36 mi away and beats everything in Santa Clara — 462 m² more lit picture than the best room here.

How much of this is confirmed

Projector confirmed by two independent sources: 1 of 3. No source: 2.

Not sure what separates these? The screen is not the picture →