https://shotonwhat.com/camera-aperture/super-panavision-70-camera-aperture The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:26:43 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/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-abyss-1989 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:57:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-abyss-1989
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mikael Salomon
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970 Wed, 29 May 2024 01:46:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ryans-daughter-1970
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. ]]> 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/shutter-island-2010 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 22:35:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shutter-island-2010
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/christopher-robin-2018 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 21:28:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/christopher-robin-2018
Director: Marc Forster
Cinematographer: Matthias Koenigswieser
A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:31:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lawrence-of-arabia-1962
Director: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968 Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:46:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-1968
Director: Ken Hughes
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-horsemen-1971 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:05:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-horsemen-1971
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cinematographer: Claude Renoir, James Wong Howe
In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:03:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ice-station-zebra-1968
Director: John Sturges
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/song-of-norway-1970
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cinematographer: Davis Boulton
Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's music with added lyrics. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:03:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mackennas-gold-1969
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:57:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965
Director: Richard Brooks
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cheyenne-autumn-1964 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cheyenne-autumn-1964
Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: William H. Clothier
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/exodus-1960
Director: Otto Preminger
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:54:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-big-fisherman-1959
Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes
Exploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-world-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:42:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-world-2015
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/west-side-story-1961 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:55:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/west-side-story-1961
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/my-fair-lady-1964 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:53:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/my-fair-lady-1964
Director: George Cukor
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can make a flower girl presentable in high society. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-new-world-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:17:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-new-world-2005
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/brainstorm-1983 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:10:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/brainstorm-1983
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Cinematographer: Richard Yuricich
Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tron-1982 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:22:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tron-1982
Director: Steven Lisberger
Cinematographer: Bruce Logan
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-tree-of-life-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:08:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-tree-of-life-2011
Director: Terrence Malick
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-master-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:37:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-master-2012
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/solar-crisis-1990 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:11:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/solar-crisis-1990
Director: Richard C. Sarafian, Alan Smithee
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A huge Solar flare is predicted to fry Earth. Astronauts must fly to the sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp C.E.O. ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/far-and-away-1992 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:33:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/far-and-away-1992
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematographer: Mikael Salomon
A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:32:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-2012
Director: Rupert Sanders
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen. ]]>