https://shotonwhat.com/camera-negative-orientation/vertical-film-orientation-camera The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:28:47 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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-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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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-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-matrix-1999 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:23:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-1999
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/8%c2%bd-1963 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:51:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/8%c2%bd-1963
Director: Federico Fellini
Cinematographer: Gianni Di Venanzo
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/waking-ned-devine-1998 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:50:19 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/waking-ned-devine-1998
Director: Kirk Jones
Cinematographer: Henry Braham
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/victor-victoria-1982 Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:49:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/victor-victoria-1982
Director: Blake Edwards
Cinematographer: Dick Bush
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. ]]> 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/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/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/raw-deal-1986 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:21:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/raw-deal-1986
Director: John Irvin
Cinematographer: Alex Thomson
A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:31:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-great-waltz-1938
Director: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from h... ]]> 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/goldeneye-1995 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:28:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/goldeneye-1995
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead. ]]> 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/the-world-is-not-enough-1999 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:23:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-world-is-not-enough-1999
Director: Michael Apted
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain. ]]> 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/die-another-day-2002 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:01:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-another-day-2002
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon. ]]> 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/spectre-2015 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:23:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spectre-2015
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
A cryptic message from 007's past sends him pitted against a mysterious terrorist organization called Spectre, and learns of its involvement in previous events of his most dangerous missions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/no-time-to-die-2021 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:17:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/no-time-to-die-2021
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:59:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-1999
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory. ]]> 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-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:56:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-1980
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky
After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by 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/star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi-2017 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:48:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi-2017
Director: Rian Johnson
Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin
Rey develops her abilities with the help of Luke Skywalker, as the Resistance prepares for battle against the First Order. ]]> 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/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/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/mid90s-2018 Fri, 24 May 2024 00:48:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mid90s-2018
Director: Jonah Hill
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. ]]>