https://shotonwhat.com/acquisition/celluloid-acquisition The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:54:52 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-the-last-knight-2017 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:40:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-the-last-knight-2017
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Jonathan Sela
A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:38:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:24:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Claude L. McDonnell
Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/strangers-on-a-train-1951 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:53:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/strangers-on-a-train-1951
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-beach-2000 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:24:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-beach-2000
Director: Danny Boyle
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/what-just-happened-2008 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:07:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/what-just-happened-2008
Director: Barry Levinson
Cinematographer: Stéphane Fontaine
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:03:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/longlegs-2024 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:54:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/longlegs-2024
Director: Osgood Perkins
Cinematographer: Andres Arochi
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:41:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:42:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/true-lies-1994
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/munich-2005
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/trap-2024 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:28:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/trap-2024
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:28:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-1981
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:03:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 09:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jaws-1975
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:13:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-killing-of-a-sacred-deer-2017
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-sugarland-express-1974 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:21:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-sugarland-express-1974
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kinds-of-kindness-2024 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:53:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kinds-of-kindness-2024
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual g... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:29:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-1966
Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977 Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:08:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/autumn-sonata-1978 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:23:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/autumn-sonata-1978
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kynodontas-2009 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:07:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kynodontas-2009
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:16:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-love-lucy-1957
Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/interstellar-2014 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:00:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/interstellar-2014
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:53:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/forrest-gump-1994
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-ring-two-2005 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:05:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-ring-two-2005
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cinematographer: Gabriel Beristain
6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-deep-1977 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:55:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-deep-1977
Director: Peter Yates
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/csi-crime-scene-investigation-2015 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:46:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/csi-crime-scene-investigation-2015
Director: Kenneth Fink, Richard J. Lewis, Alec Smight, Danny Cannon, Brad Tanenbaum, Jeffrey G. Hunt, Louis Shaw Milito, Frank Waldeck, Philip Conserva, Martha Coolidge, David Grossman, Duane Clark, Bill Eagles, Terrence O'Hara, Paris Barclay, Michael Nankin, Eagle Egilsson, Lou Antonio, Thomas J. Wright, Charles Correll, Peter Markle, Deran Sarafian, Michael Slovis, Christopher Leitch, Karen Gaviola, Matt Earl Beesley, Rob Bailey, Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, Nathan Hope, Paul McCrane, Michael Shapiro, Michael W. Watkins, Jefery Levy, Allison Liddi-Brown, John Patterson, Oz Scott, Roy H. Wagner, Tucker Gates, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Nelson McCormick, J. Miller Tobin, Andrew Baron, Jean de Segonzac, Bryan Spicer, Dean White, Jeff Woolnough, Andrew Bernstein, Naren Shankar, Charles Haid, Steven Felder, David Semel, Kevin Bray, Timothy Beavers, Alrick Riley, Claudia Yarmy
Cinematographer: Christian Sebaldt, Crescenzo G.P. Notarile, Frank Byers, Michael Barrett, Michael Slovis, Nathan Hope, Cort Fey, Jonathan West, Nelson Cragg, James L. Carter, Roy H. Wagner, David Stockton, Robert Gantz, Scott Galinsky, Ken Glassing, Matthew Jensen, Gale Tattersall, Gary B. Kibbe, Eliot Rockett, Christopher Faloona
Follows a group of Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) who work with the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD) to solve crimes by meticulously examining evidence by using advanced scientific methods and technology in Las Vegas, Nevada. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:10:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tenet-2020
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dunkirk-2017 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:46:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dunkirk-2017
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dantes-peak-1997 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:02:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dantes-peak-1997
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oppenheimer-2023
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:41:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: G.R. Aldo, Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Oberdan Troiani
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:58:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizen-kane-1941
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-revolutions-2003 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:39:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-revolutions-2003
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-trial-1962 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-trial-1962
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:35:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/inception-2010
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:27:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973
Director: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach
Cinematographer: François Reichenbach
A documentary about fraud and fakery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-reloaded-2003 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:58:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-reloaded-2003
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Following the events of The Matrix (1999), Neo and the rebel leaders estimate they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/insomnia-2002 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:16:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/insomnia-2002
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:05:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:16:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-prestige-2006 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:43:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-prestige-2006
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:40:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant
In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/macbeth-1948 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:38:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/macbeth-1948
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. ]]>