It makes you think of movie trailers
from the CinemaScope era, the words splashed rapidly left to right across the wide theater screen: Exciting Adventure!
Not exact matches
More important in that department is the debut of a
CinemaScope visual style, which cinematographer Leon Shamroy anchors through often hauntingly precise coloration and lighting, in addition to a tight scope which is intimate and grand enough to immerse you into George Davis» and Lyle R. Wheeler's Oscar - winning art direction, which is immersive enough by its own right, utilizing Paul S. Fox's and Walter M. Scott's impeccable set decoration and Charles LeMaire's and Emile Santiago's costume designs to restore the look of Ancient Rome -
from its high society to simple villages - lavishly.
Where it headed
from there — bookstore shelves or the big screen in
CinemaScope 70 mm — wasn't revealed, but the «Django Unchained» director still seemed smitten with the story's possibilities.
It's a gorgeous
CinemaScope movie and Twilight Time does the film up nicely, with a strong transfer of a good - looking HD master
from Columbia Pictures, a studio with a superb record of preserving, restoring, and making high - quality digital transfers of their catalog.
«Contempt,» a satirical drama starring Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance, was released in 1963 and is regarded as one of the finest films ever made in
CinemaScope, an anamorphic lens used
from 1953 to 1967.
Particularly interesting is the talk about McCarey's transition
from the Academy Ratio to
CinemaScope filming.
Inspired by a letter he received
from an eighth grade class, Coppola turned The Outsiders into a devouring
CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration
from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind, which the boys read to pass their time in self - imposed exile.
Once again in
CinemaScope, but now in Metrocolor, Home
from the Hill is epic melodrama.
The Man
From Laramie (1955), their final collaboration, was made for Columbia and it was the first film that Mann shot in the still novel
CinemaScope anamorphic widescreen format, which debuted just a couple of years earlier.
A color and
Cinemascope remake of the Raoul Walsh — Humphrey Bogart — Ida Lupino gangster saga (
from a W. R. Burnett novel) «High Sierra,» this time around starring Jack Palance and Shelley Winters.
THE BLU - RAY DISC Likewise amazing, Criterion's Blu - ray release presents The Innocents in its original
CinemaScope aspect ratio of 2.35:1, in a 1080p transfer the liner notes describe as «created in 4K resolution on an Oxbery wet-gate film scanner
from the 35 mm original camera negative.»
Also added: In Honor of Dan Ireland, a tribute to the SIFF co-founder with film clips, trailers, short films, and a screening of one of Dan Ireland's favorite films
from a rare 35 mm
CinemaScope collector's print.
As well, there is a history lesson on
CinemaScope, an audio interview with screenwriter Philip Dunne (recorded in 1969), press materials
from the movie's début, a comparison of the widescreen and standard versions of the film and a picture - in - picture mode.
In River of No Return (a film whose stylistic motto might be: never do in two shots what can be done in one),
CinemaScope becomes an enclosure and a measure of the characters, with an arbitrariness that takes us far
from tragedy and also far
from irony.
Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips
from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like the
CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments
from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).
Demme changes the aspect ratio
from 16 × 9 to
Cinemascope, swaps the pale color palette for warm hues and starts shooting in a more conventionally bland style.
Relish the lane - clearing prowess that comes
from the gleaming
cinemascope grille and the piercing triple - reflector headlights with LED eyebrows.
KITZBÜHEL, AUSTRIA — The view
from Kitzbühel's summit is classic
cinemascope, a 360 - degree spin of the surrounding Alps complete with snow - capped mountaintops and a miniaturized village below.
Hamilton gave a 1959 lecture, «Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking
Cinemascope and Stereophonic Sound», a phrase taken
from a Cole Porter lyric in the 1957 musical Silk Stockings.
Be Strong Boquan (after a line taken
from a performance video that's featured in the show), is composed of large abstract paintings, the first thing you encounter is «Deimos» (2015), a
Cinemascope - scaled video projection depicting enormous orange wheels careening across an unspecified expanse to the beat of Sylvester's 1978 disco anthem «Grateful.»