Sentences with phrase «when widescreen»

When widescreen became popular in the 1950s, André Bazin and other critics at Cahiers du cinèma immediately recognised that formats like Cinerama and CinemaScope would have implications for the ways filmmakers could manipulate mise en scène.

When widescreen became popular in the 1950s, André Bazin and other critics at Cahiers...

Since it was released in the 1960s, when widescreen was already the norm, I think it's safe to say that this is not the movie's original theatrical aspect ratio.

When widescreen became...

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, app developers were left scrambling to adjust their products to fit the iPhone 5's new taller four - inch screen, to avoid looking foolish for producing games with black bars on the sides, like when you try to watch an old TV show from the»90s on a widescreen TV.

When the only real complaint that can't be debated is the lack of a widescreen option for those with the means, you know you have a real winner.

While you may be a little disappointed if someone gets you the theatrical version as a gift, it won't be as bad as getting the fullscreen version of The Matrix when you wanted widescreen.

It's pretty simple and intimate, focusing mainly on three characters, but it's on an epic canvas; it's nearly 3 hours long and it spreads out to widescreen when it moves from New York to the wide open fields of Montana, photographed lovingly by Robert Richardson (U-TURN, THE AVIATOR, DJANGO UNCHAINED).

Antal uses the widescreen canvas to good effect, framing windows within windows to emphasize multiple points of view (indeed, conflicting principles are what eventually set these men at one another's throats) and favouring a steady yet highly mobile camera that's mindful of spatial dynamics when roaming off to follow someone, underscoring the urgency within a scene as differing agendas unfold in the foreground and background.

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That limitation aside, it is an excellent master, with strong color and clarity, and it holds up when zoomed out to fill a widescreen monitor.

When that proved to be unfeasible, the film was reconfigured so that the regular scenes would play out in conventional widescreen and expand to 70 mm for the eye - popping vision sequences.

Unlike The Kremlin Letter, Violent Saturday is presented in non-anamorphic widescreen, which means that the 2.35:1 CinemaScope image loses sharpness and clarity when blown - up to fill widescreen sets.

Three technical caveats accompany the «film with alternate ending and additional scene,» as it's called on the packaging: During the branched sequences, which are accessible only when viewing Identity in widescreen, the picture's stupendous Dolby Digital 5.1 mix switches to a much blander Dolby Surround recording, while James Mangold's director commentary, if selected, drops out altogether.

As a 1954 movie, On the Waterfront was made right when the industry was transitioning from the long - standard Academy Ratio to widescreen formats, devised and touted in response to television's widespread popularity.

The product of a time when Disney briefly dabbled in single aspect ratio releases, Tuck Everlasting was fortunate enough to be presented solely in an anamorphic widescreen transfer duplicating its 2.35:1 theatrical presentation.

I've experienced only a few such spontaneous ovations here over the years, during Holy Motors (the out - of - nowhere musical number performed on multiple accordions), Goodbye To Language (when Godard «breaks» 3 - D by diverging the left - and right - eye images), and Mommy (a relieved reaction to the 1:1 aspect ratio going widescreen after about 90 claustrophobic minutes).

When the sounds are revealed, the anamorphic widescreen frame takes on an expansive but claustrophobic quality thanks, in part, to Spielberg's deep focus compositions.

Just when you think you've gotten through nearly all the supplements, the last listing is for a feature audio commentary by director Michael Lembeck, available exclusively on the widescreen version.

The most complete cut of Abel Gance's visionary silent epic, Kevin Brownlow's 2000 restoration, gets a HiDef bump in a generous three - disc set to complement the movie's sprawl, and the extra resolution and image stabilization really make a difference, especially when the action breaks into an experimental widescreen triptych.

Seeing as how cinema was twenty years into the widescreen age when the movie was released, it probably was exhibited in 1.85:1 and should be seen that way.

20th Century Fox plans to release it in all widescreen formats and Imax but also in select 70 mm film prints when it opens on Friday.

Let me say right off the bat, I was disappointed by the film's video quality; the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen image appears to have been derived from a PAL source, lending the picture a BBC feel that it does not have when excerpted for the documentary segment on the companion disc.

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel comes to DVD presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, with an English language Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound audio track, and French and Spanish Dolby digital 2.0 stereo tracks, the latter two of which probably provide much amusement when one is high.

When it was released on DVD by Anchor Bay, Something Wicked This Way Comes was supposedly presented in 1.66:1 non-anamorphic widescreen and reformatted fullscreen.

In this cartoon (which is presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1), the prank - pulling Mater gets his comeuppance when Sheriff tells him about the Ghostlight, a spooky blue spirit known to haunt Route 66 from time to time.

Though the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer of the film (full - frame version sold separately) starts out looking scuffed, the speckles clear up after the opening credits — but then edge - enhancement intrudes, and there's a bizarre lapse in quality during chapter 6, when intermittent shots lose so much definition as to suggest second - generation VHS.

EXTRAS The only extra, outside of the Recommendations gallery, is a theatrical trailer, framed at about 1.4:1 widescreen, which illustrates not only how the film was marketed, but how poorly it looks when you trim off around 40 % of the picture.

But when Columbia TriStar gives you lemons, you make lemonade, so this review will focus on the bonus features of the 2 - disc set, which are shared by both the widescreen and fullscreen releases.

Be careful when looking to pick it up, the only way to tell which version you're getting is the back cover and the Widescreen spine; the front covers are identical, and many stores are foolishly getting mostly Fullscreen editions.

It wasn't all that long ago when Disney resisted releasing tween - oriented Disney Channel Original Movies in widescreen.

From the rear especially, the new, laterally extended perspectives are so stunning — all the more so when the retractable boot - lid wing responsible for reducing lift at speed scythes into the airstream at a pre-determined 75mph — that several cyclists, moving through the crawling traffic more swiftly than us, wobble as they approach the Merc's widescreen rump.

The Mondeo's standard sat - nav has a low - resolution screen — although the navigation itself is easy to use — and the red dot - matrix trip computer display that's set between the dials looks very dated when compared with the smart, widescreen TFT screen fitted to the Vauxhall Insignia.

However, when you flip a switch, it switches to display a live widescreen view of the area behind the car via a camera mounted on the rear trunklid.

Its extensive 3.8 inch, high resolution, widescreen WVGA touchscreen offers users stunning clarity and vibrant colours, providing an unrivalled experience when watching movies or using Orange's mobile TV service, browsing the internet on Orange's high speed data network (3G +) or even scanning through photos taken with its 5 megapixel auto focus camera.

It was fine for widescreen movies and even some games like the side - scrolling Badlands, but truly odd when you read a Kindle book on it in portrait mode (landscape with multiple pages on one screen made more sense).

A tablet built around an 8.9», widescreen display is the perfect tablet when it comes to form factor.

It sports an 8.9 - inch widescreen display that means it's the same width as an iPad 2 when in landscape, but considerably thinner in height.

The Cisco Cius tablet features a front - mounted 720p HD camera which refreshes at up to 30 frames per second; a seven inch, high - resolution widescreen super VGA touch - target display for real - time and streamed video, and single - button TelePresence interoperability that can be utilized either when the tablet is docked, or being used remotely via Wi - Fi.

When Motorola launched the original Xoom last spring, the first Android Honeycomb tablet turned heads with an attractive, widescreen - friendly interface, but its bulky design, high price, and buggy performance held it back.

And surprisingly in side by side comparisons, it bested the Google Nexus 10 and was every inch the equal of the iPad 4 - beating the latter when it comes to movie watching simply because it has a more widescreen ratio.

When you first walk into the hotel, the lobby is cool and inviting, with a spacious bar area complete with large, widescreen TV for sports viewing.

When we went widescreen, we initially chose 15:9 to accommodate the 3DS» resolution, but seeing that we didn't reach the stretch goal and that the Nintendo Switch is coming out next month, we feel more inclined to set our sights on the Switch for an eventual port.

It was kind of the same problem that the older Street Fighter games had when they weren't updated to the 4 - inch widescreen introduced with the iPhone 5.

Players will be given the choice between traditional 4:3 aspect ratio or widescreen when playing the game.

To their credit, the Wii U version of these NES games doesn't force the aspect ratio into 16:9 like the Wii version did when your console was set to a widescreen display on HDTV.

Because when you've spent hours just trying to find the right balance of moves, weapons, armor, spells and items to defeat a creature so large that it takes up your entire widescreen TV, there's no feeling as rewarding in gaming as when you finally take it down.

Although, the ability to take your widescreen gaming to the small screen when someone wants to watch telly will never fail to impress.

The real beauty of the T60p comes out when it's equipped with the optional WSXGA + 15.4 ″ widescreen LCD screen.

It's responsive and comfortable to use in widescreen mode, and that extra screen width comes in very handy when browsing the web in landscape mode.