https://shotonwhat.com/camera-aperture/spherical-camera-aperture The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:34:47 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/chimes-at-midnight-1965 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:46:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chimes-at-midnight-1965
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of H... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/get-on-the-bus-1996 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:22:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/get-on-the-bus-1996
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Elliot Davis
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ad-2005 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:58:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ad-2005
Director: Timuçin Leflef
Cinematographer: Timuçin Leflef, Kristian O'Neill, Darren Rowan
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ordinary-people-1980
Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: John Bailey
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-formula-1980 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-formula-1980
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cinematographer: James Crabe
The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War II, is sought after by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-goodbye-girl-1977 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:49:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-goodbye-girl-1977
Director: Herbert Ross
Cinematographer: David M. Walsh
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:02:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019
Director: Markus Otz
Cinematographer: Kurt Amzos
«The Legend of the White Ibex» is a narrative short film, with a cinematic cut in a poetic philosophical genre that compares the human soul with the forces of the universe, in the awareness of the indispensable necessity of the ma... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/predator-1987 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:19:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/predator-1987
Director: John McTiernan
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/twin-peaks-1990 Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:28:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/twin-peaks-1990
Director: David Lynch, Lesli Linka Glatter, Caleb Deschanel, Duwayne Dunham, Tim Hunter, Todd Holland, Tina Rathborne, Graeme Clifford, Mark Frost, Uli Edel, James Foley, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Diane Keaton, Jonathan Sanger
Cinematographer: Frank Byers, Ronald Víctor García
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. ]]> 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/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:45:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:03:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-no-1962
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/quantum-of-solace-2008 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:32:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/quantum-of-solace-2008
Director: Marc Forster
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organization from eliminating a country's most valuable resource. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939 Mon, 27 May 2024 17:44:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-wizard-of-oz-1939
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to Kansas and help her friends as well. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/reds-1981 Sun, 26 May 2024 19:41:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/reds-1981
Director: Warren Beatty
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997 Sat, 25 May 2024 20:39:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-2-1997
Director: Joss Whedon, James A. Contner, David Solomon, David Grossman, Michael Gershman, Bruce Seth Green, Nick Marck, James Whitmore Jr., David Greenwalt, David Semel, Michael Lange, Douglas Petrie, John T. Kretchmer, Ellen S. Pressman, Daniel Attias, Marti Noxon, David Fury, Rick Rosenthal, Marita Grabiak, Reza Badiyi, Scott Brazil, Stephen Cragg, Stephen L. Posey, Charles Martin Smith, Deran Sarafian, Tucker Gates, Regis Kimble, Christopher Hibler, Turi Meyer, Alan J. Levi, Bill Norton, Michael Grossman
Cinematographer: Michael Gershman, Raymond Stella, Kenneth Zunder, Michael D. O'Shea, Donald M. Morgan
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972 Fri, 24 May 2024 17:22:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cabaret-1972
Director: Bob Fosse
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-place-in-the-sun-1951 Sun, 19 May 2024 20:21:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-place-in-the-sun-1951
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:56:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grapes-of-wrath-1940
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956 Fri, 17 May 2024 14:50:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/giant-1956
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915 Fri, 17 May 2024 00:31:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-birth-of-a-nation-1915
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950 Wed, 15 May 2024 17:06:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/all-about-eve-1950
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-river-runs-through-it-1992 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:26:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-river-runs-through-it-1992
Director: Robert Redford
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
Two sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing. ]]> 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/the-big-red-one-1980 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:55:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-red-one-1980
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:35:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/incendies-2010
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cinematographer: André Turpin
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fitzcarraldo-1982 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:06:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fitzcarraldo-1982
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Thomas Mauch
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-sacrifice-1986 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:02:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-sacrifice-1986
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fish-tank-2009 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 01:57:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fish-tank-2009
Director: Andrea Arnold
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mean-girls-2004 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:28:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mean-girls-2004
Director: Mark Waters
Cinematographer: Daryn Okada
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:59:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-temptation-of-christ-1988
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:50:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/do-the-right-thing-1989
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Ernest R. Dickerson
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/starship-troopers-1997 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:44:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/starship-troopers-1997
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:56:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:55:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ben-hur-a-tale-of-the-christ-1925
Director: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, René Guissart, Percy Hilburn, Karl Struss, Paul Kerschner
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/picnic-1996 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:14:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/picnic-1996
Director: Shunji Iwai
Cinematographer: Noboru Shinoda
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point t... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:47:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014
Director: James Gunn
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
A group of intergalactic criminals must pull together to stop a fanatical warrior with plans to purge the universe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/30-minutes-or-less-2011 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 22:35:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/30-minutes-or-less-2011
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cinematographer: Jess Hall
Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and inform him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/weeds-2005 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:26:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/weeds-2005
Director: Craig Zisk, Michael Trim, Scott Ellis, Julie Anne Robinson, Eric Jewett, Paul Feig, Lev L. Spiro, Tucker Gates, Brian Dannelly, Perry Lang, Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Pressman, Robert Berlinger, Lee Rose, Arlene Sanford, Burr Steers, Bryan Gordon, Chris Long, Christopher Misiano, Martha Coolidge, Randy Zisk, Paris Barclay, Adam Bernstein, David Steinberg, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jeremy Podeswa, Bethany Rooney, Matt Shakman, Tate Donovan, Michael Uppendahl, David Warren, Phil Abraham, Uta Briesewitz
Cinematographer: Michael Trim, Steven H. Smith, Bobby Bukowski, Feliks Parnell, Ethan Phillips
When a suburban mother turns to dealing marijuana in order to maintain her privileged lifestyle after her husband dies, she finds out just how addicted her entire neighborhood already is. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/raging-bull-1980 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:16:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raging-bull-1980
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/requiem-for-a-dream-2000 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:14:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/requiem-for-a-dream-2000
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/true-detective-2014 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:05:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/true-detective-2014
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga, Issa López, Daniel Sackheim, John Crowley, Justin Lin, Nic Pizzolatto, Jeremy Saulnier, Daniel Attias, Janus Metz, Jeremy Podeswa, Miguel Sapochnik
Cinematographer: Nigel Bluck, Adam Arkapaw, Germain McMicking, Florian Hoffmeister
Anthology series in which police investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within and outside the law. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shine-1996 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:07:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shine-1996
Director: Scott Hicks
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Simpson
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/one-true-thing-1998 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:00:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/one-true-thing-1998
Director: Carl Franklin
Cinematographer: Declan Quinn
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/before-sunset-2004 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:14:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/before-sunset-2004
Director: Richard Linklater
Cinematographer: Lee Daniel
Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/what-dreams-may-come-1998 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:58:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/what-dreams-may-come-1998
Director: Vincent Ward
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/flipped-2010 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:51:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/flipped-2010
Director: Rob Reiner
Cinematographer: Thomas Del Ruth
Two eighth-graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. ]]>