https://shotonwhat.com/distributed-aspect-ratio/1-331 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:59:50 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:24:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/downhill-1927
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Claude L. McDonnell
Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there. ]]> 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/filming-othello-1978 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/filming-othello-1978
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:05:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/killers-of-the-flower-moon-2023
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/van-hitcom-naar-shitcom-en-weer-terug-2024 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:59:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/van-hitcom-naar-shitcom-en-weer-terug-2024
Director: Charmeno Kraladis
Cinematographer: Tijmen Kroonenberg
A presenter takes you on a journey through time about the influence of media technological developments on the American sitcom genre. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-2019 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:55:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-2019
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. ]]> 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/the-divine-lady-1928 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:28:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-divine-lady-1928
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson. ]]> 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/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/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. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-letter-to-three-wives-1949 Mon, 20 May 2024 15:26:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-letter-to-three-wives-1949
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sunrise-1927 Sun, 19 May 2024 21:37:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sunrise-1927
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cinematographer: Charles Rosher, Karl Struss
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment. ]]> 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/blonde-2022 Wed, 08 May 2024 23:09:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blonde-2022
Director: Andrew Dominik
Cinematographer: Chayse Irvin
The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/stalker-1979 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:53:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/stalker-1979
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy, Georgi Rerberg, Leonid Kalashnikov
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-teachers-lounge-2023 Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:42:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-teachers-lounge-2023
Director: Ilker Çatak
Cinematographer: Judith Kaufmann
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/zack-snyders-justice-league-2021 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 22:26:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/zack-snyders-justice-league-2021
Director: Zack Snyder
Cinematographer: Fabian Wagner
Zack Snyder's definitive director's cut of Justice League. Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:52:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-2022
Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/maestro-4-2023 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:36:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/maestro-4-2023
Director: Bradley Cooper
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/perfect-days-2023 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:09:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/perfect-days-2023
Director: Wim Wenders
Cinematographer: Franz Lustig
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/babylon-2022 Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:51:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/babylon-2022
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/friends-1994 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 05:07:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/friends-1994
Director: Gary Halvorson, Kevin Bright, Michael Lembeck, James Burrows, Gail Mancuso, Peter Bonerz, David Schwimmer, Ben Weiss, Robby Benson, Shelley Jensen, Terry Hughes, Dana De Vally Piazza, Sheldon Epps, Pamela Fryman, Alan Myerson, Thomas Schlamme, Steve Zuckerman, Roger Christiansen, Arlene Sanford, Ellen Gittelsohn, Paul Lazarus, Mary Kay Place, Sam Simon, David Steinberg, Todd Holland, Joe Regalbuto, Andrew Tsao, Stephen Prime
Cinematographer: Mikel Neiers, Nick McLean, Richard Hissong, Ken Lamkin, Reid Haessig
Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-blair-witch-project-1999 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:05:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-blair-witch-project-1999
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Cinematographer: Neal Fredericks
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/saltburn-2023 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 05:51:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/saltburn-2023
Director: Emerald Fennell
Cinematographer: Linus Sandgren
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten. ]]> 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/wil-2023 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:54:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/wil-2023
Director: Tim Mielants
Cinematographer: Robrecht Heyvaert
Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp. ]]> 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/body-melt-1993 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:44:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-melt-1993
Director: Philip Brophy
Cinematographer: Ray Argall
Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/minding-the-gap-2018 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:31:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minding-the-gap-2018
Director: Bing Liu
Cinematographer: Bing Liu
Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/law-order-2010 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:06:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/law-order-2010
Director: Constantine Makris, Edwin Sherin, Jace Alexander, David Platt, Richard Dobbs, Matthew Penn, Martha Mitchell, Don Scardino, Christopher Misiano, Jean de Segonzac, James Quinn, Arthur W. Forney, Lewis Gould, Michael Pressman, E.W. Swackhamer, Alex Hall, Daniel Sackheim, Alex Chapple, Jim McKay, Fred Gerber, Gloria Muzio, Fred Berner, James Frawley, Vincent Misiano, Darnell Martin, Michael W. Watkins, Vern Gillum, Stephen Wertimer, John Whitesell, Steven Robman, Dann Florek, Brian Mertes, Marc Levin, Marisol Adler, Mario Van Peebles, Milena Govich, Charles Correll, Gwen Arner, James Hayman, Gilbert M. Shilton, Steve Shill, Tim Hunter, Michael Dinner, William Klayer, Rose Troche, Roger Young, Yangzom Brauen, Bethany Rooney, Martin Davidson, Michael Fresco, John Patterson, Steve Cohen, Aaron Lipstadt, Kristoffer Tabori, Bill D'Elia, Peter Levin, Gilbert Moses, Gabrielle Beaumont, Bruce Seth Green, Helaine Head, Marc Laub, Dan Karlok, Adam Davidson, J. Ranelli, Paris Barclay, Rosemary Rodriguez, Eric Stoltz, Rick Wallace, Adam Bernstein, Tony Goldwyn, Joan Stein Schimke, Karen Gaviola, Sam Weisman, John David Coles, Allen Coulter, Alan Taylor, Dean White, Christopher Zalla, Norberto Barba, Ernest R. Dickerson, Joshua Marston, Rene Balcer, John Behring, Carlos Bernard, Sarah Boyd, Heather Cappiello, David Grossman, Eriq La Salle, Elisabeth Röhm, Carl Weathers, Timothy Busfield, Nestor Carbonell, Joy Lane, Rachel Leiterman
Cinematographer: Constantine Makris, William Klayer, John Beymer, David S. Tuttman, Christopher Misiano, Richard Dobbs, Manuel Billeter, Ernest R. Dickerson, John Thomas, Peter Reniers, Michael F. Barrow, Craig DiBona, Geoffrey Erb, Alec Hirschfeld
A murder (usually adapted from current events), is tracked from two separate vantage points. The first half of the show follows an investigation of a crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the same crime i... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-2019 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:39:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-2019
Director: Marielle Heller
Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes
Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-teen-movie-2022 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 21:31:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-teen-movie-2022
Director: Aranka Tjalsma
Cinematographer: Jesse Post
Two friends, Caily and Sabine, wake up after a long night of drinking. They go to their hangout spot and hit the bottle and do drugs. After a bit of talking, they fall asleep. Waking up is the hard part. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/manila-in-the-claws-of-light-1975 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 05:36:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/manila-in-the-claws-of-light-1975
Director: Lino Brocka
Cinematographer: Mike De Leon, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr.
Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-homecoming-2017 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:04:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-homecoming-2017
Director: Jon Watts
Cinematographer: Salvatore Totino
Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City. ]]> 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/the-man-in-room-6-2022 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:48:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-in-room-6-2022
Director: Trevor Juenger
Cinematographer: Dylan Schnitker, Joe Tello, Rexx Villotti
Carrie (Jackie Kelly) is a socially-troubled young woman trying to mend a strained relationship with her mother. After her grandfather dies in a nursing home, Carrie finds herself attracted to William (Bill Oberst Jr.), an elderly... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/persona-1966 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:40:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/persona-1966
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:49:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rawhide-1959
Director: Thomas Carr, Ted Post, Christian Nyby, Harmon Jones, Jesse Hibbs, Justus Addiss, Don McDougall, R.G. Springsteen, George Templeton, Andrew V. McLaglen, Stuart Heisler, Joseph Kane, Sobey Martin, Charles Marquis Warren, Michael O'Herlihy, Jack Arnold, Anton Leader, Harry Harris, Richard Whorf, Robert L. Friend, Tay Garnett, Bernard L. Kowalski, Vincent McEveety, George Sherman, Gerd Oswald, Gene Fowler Jr., Murray Golden, Herschel Daugherty, Philip Leacock, Bernard McEveety, Sutton Roley, Buzz Kulik, Robert D. Webb, William F. Claxton, Perry Lafferty, Allen Reisner, Laslo Benedek, James P. Yarbrough, Earl Bellamy, Alan Crosland Jr., Bernard Girard, James Goldstone, Charles F. Haas, Herman Hoffman, Charles R. Rondeau, Stuart Rosenberg
Cinematographer: John M. Nickolaus Jr., Jack Swain, Howard Schwartz, Neal Beckner, Philip H. Lathrop, Brydon Baker, Gordon Avil
Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/curb-your-enthusiasm-2000 Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:00:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/curb-your-enthusiasm-2000
Director: Robert B. Weide, Jeff Schaffer, Larry Charles, Bryan Gordon, David Steinberg, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Andy Ackerman, Jeff Garlin, Dean Parisot, Keith Truesdell, Tom Kramer, Jessie Nelson, Cheryl Hines, Erin O'Malley
Cinematographer: Bill Sheehy, Patrick Alexander Stewart, Bradley Sellers
The life and times of Larry David and the predicaments he gets himself into with his friends and complete strangers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beginning-2020 Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:57:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beginning-2020
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Cinematographer: Arseni Khachaturan
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana's inner discontent gr... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2018 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:36:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-2018
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bitcoin-miners-2021 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:14:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bitcoin-miners-2021
Director: Scott Migdol
Cinematographer: Scott Migdol
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/some-kind-of-heaven-2020 Sat, 13 May 2023 12:23:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/some-kind-of-heaven-2020
Director: Lance Oppenheim
Cinematographer: David Bolen
Behind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/room-x-2008 Sun, 30 Apr 2023 17:58:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/room-x-2008
Director: Kelvin C. Bias
Cinematographer: Robson Garcia Jr.
After transiting a wormhole in the year 3003, an astronaut makes a dark pact with an ominous telepathic man in Room X. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/south-park-1997 Sat, 29 Apr 2023 01:30:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/south-park-1997
Director: Trey Parker, Eric Stough, Matt Stone, Adrien Beard, Toni Wurts
Cinematographer: Wonnie Jung, Kenny Gioseffi
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/dirty-mirrors-2022 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:15:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/dirty-mirrors-2022
Director: Gus M. Hile
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Director: Gus M. Hile
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Director: Nicolangelo Gelormini
Cinematographer: Agostino Vertucci
Three children, a faraway planet, a secret they share. And a monster. ]]>