https://shotonwhat.com/camera-aperture/techniscope-camera-aperture The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:32:34 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/ad-astra-2019 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:32:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ad-astra-2019
Director: James Gray
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/vox-lux-2018 Mon, 27 May 2024 16:53:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/vox-lux-2018
Director: Brady Corbet
Cinematographer: Lol Crawley
An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lost-river-2014 Sun, 26 May 2024 13:22:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lost-river-2014
Director: Ryan Gosling
Cinematographer: Benoît Debie
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-tonya-2017 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:40:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-tonya-2017
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cinematographer: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/incredible-violence-2018 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:02:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/incredible-violence-2018
Director: G. Patrick Condon
Cinematographer: Ian Vatcher
A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-good-reason-2018 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:02:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-good-reason-2018
Director: August Holt Markwardt
Cinematographer: David J. Schweitzer
A gravely wounded heroin addict meets an angelic figure known as The Driver who tells her a story. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/first-man-2018 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 02:33:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/first-man-2018
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dr-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dr-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965
Director: Freddie Francis
Cinematographer: Alan Hume
Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thx-1138-1971 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:24:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thx-1138-1971
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: Albert Kihn, David Myers
In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/shame-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:19:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shame-2011
Director: Steve McQueen
Cinematographer: Sean Bobbitt
A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mobius-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:18:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mobius-2013
Director: Eric Rochant
Cinematographer: Pierre Novion
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/trois-mondes-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:11:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/trois-mondes-2012
Director: Catherine Corsini
Cinematographer: Claire Mathon
This is the tale of a hit and run accident that results in the death of an illegal foreigner. Three men, including a young executive, are aboard the vehicle responsible of the accident and ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/plan-de-table-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:10:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/plan-de-table-2012
Director: Christelle Raynal
Cinematographer: Éric Guichard
Following a brief hug, but intense, the table set for the wedding is messy. The bride is short restyle, while the man puts the cards without respecting the plan table. Chance will he good things? Or will he lend a hand in fate? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/let-my-people-go-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:19:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/let-my-people-go-2011
Director: Mikael Buch
Cinematographer: Céline Bozon
At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-brindille-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:51:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-brindille-2011
Director: Emmanuelle Millet
Cinematographer: Antoine Héberlé
Sarah is a twenty years old hard working woman who learns that she is six month pregnant. But she doesn't want to have a child at this moment: she will try to find a balance between the life she wants and the steps she has to go through. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-hommes-libres-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:50:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-hommes-libres-2011
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Cinematographer: Jérôme Alméras
In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/braquo-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:46:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/braquo-2009
Director: Xavier Palud, Olivier Marchal, Frédéric Schoendoerffer, Philippe Haïm, Eric Valette, Manuel Boursinhac, Frédéric Jardin
Cinematographer: Michel Amathieu, Denis Rouden, Jean-Pierre Sauvaire, Laurent Barès, Vincent Muller, Jean-Marc Fabre, Laurent Tangy
Four police officers of the SDPJ Hauts-de-Seine, Eddie Caplan, Walter Morlighem, Theo Wachevski and Roxane Delgado have their lives turned upside down when their colleague, Max, committed ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/american-hustle-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:45:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/american-hustle-2013
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-capital-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:12:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-capital-2012
Director: Costa-Gavras
Cinematographer: Eric Gautier
The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/oldboy-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 05:03:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/oldboy-2013
Director: Spike Lee
Cinematographer: Sean Bobbitt
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/silver-linings-playbook-2012 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:52:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/silver-linings-playbook-2012
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Masanobu Takayanagi
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-who-wasnt-there-2-1983 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:45:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-who-wasnt-there-2-1983
Director: Bruce Malmuth
Cinematographer: Frederick Moore
A State Department employee finds an egg-shaped device with a green fluid inside that makes the person who drinks it invisible. He finds himself being chased by foreign agents who want the substance. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/otto-der-film-1985 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:17:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/otto-der-film-1985
Director: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes
Cinematographer: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Michael Stöger
Otto, a young man from East-Frisia comes to the big city (Hamburg) to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a rich young girl, and where ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/little-birds-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:59:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/little-birds-2011
Director: Elgin James
Cinematographer: Reed Morano
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/das-arche-noah-prinzip-1984 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:54:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/das-arche-noah-prinzip-1984
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cinematographer: Egon Werdin
Near the end of the 20th century, WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) are retired. However, certain factions plan to use a science space station as a weapon against each other. The astronauts inside will decide the world's fate. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baby-secret-of-the-lost-legend-1985 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:35:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baby-secret-of-the-lost-legend-1985
Director: Bill Norton
Cinematographer: John Alcott
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/coriolanus-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:59:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/coriolanus-2011
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-place-beyond-the-pines-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 14:44:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-place-beyond-the-pines-2012
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cinematographer: Sean Bobbitt
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alex-cross-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:09:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alex-cross-2012
Director: Rob Cohen
Cinematographer: Ricardo Della Rosa
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/argo-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:56:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/argo-2012
Director: Ben Affleck
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-slave-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:13:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/i-am-slave-2010
Director: Gabriel Range
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/titanic-2-1997 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:45:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/titanic-2-1997
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/neighboring-sounds-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:19:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/neighboring-sounds-2012
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cinematographer: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu
The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/killing-bono-2011 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 21:00:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/killing-bono-2011
Director: Nick Hamm
Cinematographer: Kieran McGuigan
Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/panic-room-2002 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:10:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/panic-room-2002
Director: David Fincher
Cinematographer: Conrad W. Hall, Darius Khondji
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room, when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/straw-dogs-2011 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:51:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/straw-dogs-2011
Director: Rod Lurie
Cinematographer: Alik Sakharov
Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/difficult-to-stay-alive-and-die-2009 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:07:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/difficult-to-stay-alive-and-die-2009
Director: Michael Bail
Cinematographer: Matthew Espenshade
Agent Rico Seagull will have to face ninjas, care for the environment, make passionate Seagal love, and participate in a Segway scooter chase before he can satisfy his taste for killing. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-fighter-2010 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:47:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-fighter-2010
Director: David O. Russell
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness. ]]>