https://shotonwhat.com/additional-post-processes/enlargement-upres-blow-up The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:00:37 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/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/following-1998 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Christopher Nolan
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-rises-2012 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:18:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-rises-2012
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:26:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997
Director: Rob Sitch
Cinematographer: Miriana Marusic
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/showgirls-1995 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:47:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/showgirls-1995
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:23:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-1983
Director: Richard Marquand
Cinematographer: Alan Hume, Alec Mills
After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-celebration-1998 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:18:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-celebration-1998
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chasing-amy-1997 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:44:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chasing-amy-1997
Director: Kevin Smith
Cinematographer: David Klein
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:25:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tomorrow-never-dies-1997
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:53:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-1977
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:56:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
Three decades after the Empire's defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Defected stormtrooper Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance's search for the missing Luke Skywalker. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979 Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apocalypse-now-1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:36:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Viktor Ruzicka
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Cinematographer: Malcolm Hart, Don Lenzer, Michael Margetts, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Michael Wadleigh, Alfred Wertheimer
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:52:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-goonies-1985
Director: Richard Donner
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
A group of young misfits who call themselves The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on a quest to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-hard-1988 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:34:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-hard-1988
Director: John McTiernan
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/divergence-2007 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:00:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/divergence-2007
Director: Patrick J. Donnelly
Cinematographer: Patrick J. Donnelly
A wounded soldier returning form Iraq finds solace in the arms of a mysterious and beautiful woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/magical-mystery-tour-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:24:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/magical-mystery-tour-1967
Director: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bernard Knowles
Cinematographer: Ringo Starr
The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/platoon-1986 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:43:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/platoon-1986
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:53:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-2-2004 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:28:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-2-2004
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:59:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011
Director: Brad Bird
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/escape-world-safari-iii-1988 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:55:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/escape-world-safari-iii-1988
Director: Alby Mangels
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ambuli-2012 Tue, 02 May 2023 15:33:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ambuli-2012
Director: Haresh Narayan, K. Hari Shankar
Cinematographer: Sathish G.
Two students plan to investigate a strange phenomenon that they came across in a field during their summer holidays. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/arc-de-bara-2016 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:19:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/arc-de-bara-2016
Director: JC Ceinos
Cinematographer: JC Ceinos
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:52:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-ii-1989 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:32:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-part-ii-1989
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/adjuration-2019 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:00:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/adjuration-2019
Director: Jimmy Barranco
Cinematographer: Jimmy Barranco
Grace is recovering from her brother's suicide and, while trying to fill up the void, she's haunted with the memories of the one she loved the most. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:01:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-1989
Director: Oliver Stone
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:00:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-3-2007
Director: Sam Raimi
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/clerks-1994 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:55:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/clerks-1994
Director: Kevin Smith
Cinematographer: David Klein
A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:11:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/key-of-brown-2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:30:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/key-of-brown-2013
Director: Vaughn Christion
Cinematographer: Oscar Patino
A prostitute, a pimp, a former drug dealer, a serial killer and a kilo of brown heroin. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ulees-gold-1997 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:32:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ulees-gold-1997
Director: Victor Nunez
Cinematographer: Virgil Mirano
A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mrs-brown-1997 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:46:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mrs-brown-1997
Director: John Madden
Cinematographer: Richard Greatrex
When Queen Victoria's husband dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/carol-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:29:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/carol-2015
Director: Todd Haynes
Cinematographer: Edward Lachman
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/squash-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:27:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/squash-2002
Director: Lionel Bailliu
Cinematographer: Thierry Deschamp
Two businessmen, Alexandre and his boss, play a game of squash. The game escalates from "fun" to fairly high stakes, as both players demonstrate that squash is a mental game, not just a physical game. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-fille-du-14-juillet-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:20:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-fille-du-14-juillet-2013
Director: Antonin Peretjatko
Cinematographer: Simon Roca
Hector, who met Truquette at the Louvre on July 14, has only one concern since then: seduce this girl. The best way to do so is by taking her to the sea. Pator, his friend, is accompanying him along with Truquette's girlfriend, Charlotte. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/inherent-vice-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:24:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/inherent-vice-2014
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/combat-shock-1984 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:47:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/combat-shock-1984
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo
Cinematographer: Stella Varveris
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle. ]]>