Best - case scenario: Shot
using anamorphic lenses that haven't been used since the»60s and with an original score by Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight could see Tarantino surpass his usual exploitation influences and make an old - fashioned Western epic worthy of Sergio Leone.
One stylized montage, unexpectedly set to a surging symphonic work by Beethoven,
uses anamorphic lens effects to distort and flatten out the sun - drenched streetscape behind its subject's head.
With cinematographer Jakob Ihre, Trier decided to
use anamorphic lenses instead of the more naturalistic spherical lenses of his earlier films.
We used these anamorphic lenses, they're quite old and they have these aberrations.
Cinematographer Adam Stone
used anamorphic 35 mm film to provide a true - to - life vision for Oscar - contender «Loving.»
Then there's resolution: Switch in docked mode is a match for PlayStation 4's full 1080p (it's native 720p on the go) but curiously, the Xbox One release
uses anamorphic pixels, meaning a sub-native horizontal pixel count.
Not exact matches
Image detail is nice on the whole, and though the film does occasionally look a little soft, this is an artifact of the
anamorphic camera process
used, rather than any transfer or compression issues.
The Warner Archive Blu - ray transfer is almost three - dimensional in its clarity, although the sides of the image wobble whenever the camera moves laterally, presumably due to the original
anamorphic process
used.
Fine detail is tempered by the
use of Panavision
anamorphic lenses, enhancing the cinematic quality of a notably grain - free — and thankfully noise - free — image.
«The Hateful Eight»: The race is partly a large - format wilderness shootout because three - time Oscar winner Robert Richardson literally stumbled upon Ultra Panavision 70
anamorphic lenses that hadn't been
used in 50 years.
Although it
uses the same 1.81:1
anamorphic widescreen transfer as before, the presentation doesn't look too dated.
«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.
The print
used for the 1.78:1
anamorphic widescreen transfer is free of debris, but it looks worn all the same, with fleshtones on the pink side and an absence of deep blacks.
Baker's crew shot the entire 2015 film
using three iPhone 5S devices, with additional photography from an
anamorphic clip - on lens, an app, and Steadicam Smoothee Mounts.
It was also good to see the IMAX film projector
used again, for Interstellar, although it was disconcerting to see the aspect ratio change from 70 mm to
anamorphic 35 mm, often within the same scene.
As Baker described the prototype
anamorphic adapters his crew
used to get a widescreen «true scope» look from an iPhone, a young woman with slightly disheveled red hair wandered up to the booth.
In order to quickly transition to widescreen production, the studio hired Japanese directors and cinematographers, and
used Japanese
anamorphic lenses to enhance production values by embracing colour and widescreen.
Bordwell points out that the Japanese influence is only one factor in the style of the films, so although they were often shot with the same Tohoscope
anamorphic lenses that Akira Kurosawa was
using in Japan, Shawscope films don't look exactly the same as their Japanese counterparts.
An «
Anamorphic Test» (2:31) is a deleted scene shot in the 2.35:1 Panavision aspect ratio, which Anderson and Yeoman intended to
use.
Practically a Star Wars prequel in its
use of digitally - generated environments, and shot in a mix of Super35 — sometimes with
anamorphic lenses, for the focal distortions — and HD (the ARRI Alexa was reserved for low - light and greenscreen - heavy shots) by Argo DP Rodrigo Prieto, The Wolf of Wall Street nonetheless boasts a cohesive, credible, and cinematic Blu - ray presentation with glassy detail and supple dynamic range.
«Interstellar» was shot
using a combination of 35 mm
anamorphic film and 65 mm IMAX film to maximize the crispness and clarity of the images.
This is a true «scope title, thus a certain softness is to be expected, while the
use of
anamorphic lenses is a likelier culprit for the limited grain than DVNR.
For his 2012 movie «Starlet,» Mr. Baker
used a Sony digital camera with
anamorphic wide - screen lenses that created a»70s - style, sun - bleached California look.
An
anamorphic adapter was attached to the phone to shoot in widescreen, while a Steadicam was also
used to capture the many tracking shots.
Much has been made of the fact that Baker shot his film on three iPhone 5s,
using a clip on
anamorphic lens — an impressive feat considering how gorgeous the final product is.
The Techniscope format was a cheap way to get a widescreen image by only
using half as much film as true CinemaScope (i.e.,
anamorphic) requires, and this presentation seems to reflect the reduced effective resolution of the material, evincing a softness around the edges that's sometimes exacerbated by missed focus.
Annihilation was photographed digitally in the Sony X-OCN, Sony F65 RAW, and Redcode RAW codecs (at 4K and 6K resolutions)
using Sony CineAtla and Red Weapon Dragon cameras with Panavision
anamorphic lenses.
The first disc finds the picture in a lovely 1.85:1
anamorphic widescreen transfer made
using a HiDef conversion process Anchor Bay calls «Divimax.»
The 2.35:1
anamorphic widescreen transfer will impress even the most jaded viewer, exhibiting stark blacks and whites that often suggest the silver retention process
used famously in theatrical and LaserDisc presentations of Seven.
The Dark Crystal was shot on 35 mm photochemical film
using Panavision cameras and
anamorphic lenses.
Robert Lazzarini sculpts a gun in
anamorphic projection, Leslie Hewitt
uses a shattered teacup into an allegory of entropy, Paul Pfieffer and Mario Ybarra, Jr., draw on sports figures for macho, and Patrick Lee sketches a tattooed hulk with a shaved head.
Using machine vision, biometric sensors,
anamorphic 3D projection mapping, VR, AR, and more, the works in the show invite one to dissociate momentarily from ordinary waking consciousness, and explore the worlds of eighteen artists who imagine new perspectives of «reality.»
Due to the
use of an
anamorphic lens, the projection is strikingly horizontal, thereby emphasizing the reference to historical landscape painting.
Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge
uses stereoscopic viewers and creates optical illusions with
anamorphic projection, to extend his drawings - in - time into three dimensions.
Adrian Ghenie highlights an era that questioned man's significance, the existence of God, and the question of Creationism — through a
use of paint that suggests the
anamorphic nature of identity through the evolution of scientific understanding, and contradiction of the Baconian flesh that presents it.»
Using machine vision, biometric sensors,
anamorphic 3D projection mapping, VR, AR, and more, the works in the show invite one to dissociate momentarily from ordinary waking consciousness, and explore the worlds of seventeen artists who imagine new perspectives of «reality.»
The new 26 1/2 minute work is a 35 mm
anamorphic film shot on location in the saline landscapes of Utah and California
using Dean's recently developed and patented system of aperture gate masking.
Moment won't have the first
anamorphic lens adapter to market — Moondog Labs had one years ago, which was
used to shoot Tangerine on an iPhone 5S — but this is the first time Moment has offered one.
The product launch is headlined by a single new lens: a $ 149
anamorphic, which allows filmmakers to capture extra-wide images with long, streaking lens flares, providing a look frequently
used in blockbuster movies.