https://shotonwhat.com/distributed-aspect-ratio/1-661 The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:59:37 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/je-bent-al-hier-2024 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:07:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/je-bent-al-hier-2024
Director: Inez Eltink
Cinematographer: Jor Broeder
Becoming the best version of yourself, the goal everyone consciously or unconsciously strives for. Everything can always be better, more beautiful, bigger, faster. Nowadays silence is the only time we can relax, but the world we l... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:03:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poor-things-2023
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. ]]> 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/kinetta-2005 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:05:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kinetta-2005
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-trial-1962 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:51:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-trial-1962
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Edmond Richard
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:46:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/f-for-fake-1973
Director: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach
Cinematographer: François Reichenbach
A documentary about fraud and fakery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:40:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-immortal-story-1968
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant
In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife. ]]> 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/the-irishman-2019 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:03:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-irishman-2019
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
An old man recalls his time painting houses for his friend, Jimmy Hoffa, through the 1950-70s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/geluid-van-het-einde-2023 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:03:53 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/geluid-van-het-einde-2023
Director: Piter Reitsma
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
When a singing super heroine isolates herself from her surroundings by screaming because of her tragic past, she is forced to overcome her trauma to save the world from a meteorite impact. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/waiting-for-smiths-trilogy-2024 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:59:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/waiting-for-smiths-trilogy-2024
Director: Sebastiaan de Reuver
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
This short film by the artist 'Waiting for Smith' forms an audiovisual triptych in which the video clips of 'Nature's Mind', 'White Light of Love' and 'Let Light In' are told in a continuous story. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/instorten-2022 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 19:59:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/instorten-2022
Director: Piter Reitsma
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
Lisa's brother, medic doctor Joe, develops a potion to travel to alternate dimensions. They go looking for their sister Nina, whom they lost. However, they must be careful, as they are not allowed to change anything in alternate w... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fanny-and-alexander-2-1983 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:57:35 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fanny-and-alexander-2-1983
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:37:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-other-side-of-the-wind-2018
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-tenant-1976 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:18:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-tenant-1976
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fifth-story-2024 Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:39:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fifth-story-2024
Director: Maxance Louvety
Cinematographer: Enzo Kristensen
A door-to-door salesman at the end of his tether finds on his last sale of the day much more than he could ever bargain for ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-beguiled-2017 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 21:48:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-beguiled-2017
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cinematographer: Philippe Le Sourd
The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:55:04 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/from-russia-with-love-1963
Director: Terence Young
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the organization Spectre. ]]> 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/shane-1953 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:36:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/shane-1953
Director: George Stevens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. ]]> 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/cries-whispers-1972 Sun, 26 May 2024 23:46:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cries-whispers-1972
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-holdovers-2023 Fri, 24 May 2024 02:05:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-holdovers-2023
Director: Alexander Payne
Cinematographer: Eigil Bryld
A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go and a grieving cook. ]]> 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/barry-lyndon-1975 Wed, 15 May 2024 16:51:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/barry-lyndon-1975
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-vvitch-a-new-england-folktale-2015 Sat, 11 May 2024 20:24:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-vvitch-a-new-england-folktale-2015
Director: Robert Eggers
Cinematographer: Jarin Blaschke
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bad-taste-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:33:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bad-taste-1987
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Peter Jackson
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain. ]]> 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/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-2021 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:35:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on-2021
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp
Cinematographer: Eric Adkins, Bianca Cline
A cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/close-2022 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:29:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/close-2022
Director: Lukas Dhont
Cinematographer: Frank van den Eeden
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/eileen-2023 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:23:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/eileen-2023
Director: William Oldroyd
Cinematographer: Ari Wegner
A woman's friendship with a new co-worker at the prison facility where she works takes a sinister turn. ]]> 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/een-rivier-om-te-bevriezen-2023 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:23:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/een-rivier-om-te-bevriezen-2023
Director: Luca Larsen
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
Like any young adult, Suyin tries to find her place in the world and in her chaotic family. When she dreams away again on Christmas Eve, instead of helping the almost bankrupt family restaurant, her mother issues an ultimatum. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/eventual-2023 Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:54:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/eventual-2023
Director: Nicholas Connor
Cinematographer: Piero Cioffi
In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that some truths are more challenging than the past he's desperate to escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995 Mon, 11 Dec 2023 02:53:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/apollo-13-1995
Director: Ron Howard
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-cure-for-wellness-2016 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:34:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-cure-for-wellness-2016
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/this-is-my-desire-2020 Sun, 09 Apr 2023 20:59:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/this-is-my-desire-2020
Director: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri
Cinematographer: Arseni Khachaturan
In Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/atlantics-2019 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:07:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/atlantics-2019
Director: Mati Diop
Cinematographer: Claire Mathon
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/topsy-turvy-1999 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:48:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/topsy-turvy-1999
Director: Mike Leigh
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jackie-2016 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:34:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jackie-2016
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cinematographer: Stéphane Fontaine
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/pi-1998 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:18:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/pi-1998
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980 Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:56:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-shining-1980
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cinematographer: John Alcott
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-x-files-2-1993 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:58:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-x-files-2-1993
Director: Kim Manners, Rob Bowman, David Nutter, Chris Carter, R.W. Goodwin, Tony Wharmby, Michael W. Watkins, Daniel Sackheim, Michael Lange, James Wong, Jim Charleston, Cliff Bole, William A. Graham, Peter Markle, David Duchovny, Thomas J. Wright, Rod Hardy, Glen Morgan, Jerrold Freedman, Joe Napolitano, Larry Shaw, Tucker Gates, Vince Gilligan, Richard Compton, Frank Spotnitz, Darin Morgan, Fred Gerber, Michael Katleman, Harry Longstreet, Robert Mandel, Win Phelps, Stephen Surjik, James A. Contner, Nick Marck, Michael Vejar, James Whitmore Jr., Brett Dowler, Allen Coulter, Ralph Hemecker, Robert Lieberman, Bryan Spicer, Gillian Anderson, Paul Shapiro, Terrence O'Hara, Barry K. Thomas, Dwight H. Little, Michelle MacLaren, John Shiban, Carol Banker, Holly Dale, Kevin Hooks
Cinematographer: Bill Roe, John S. Bartley, Joel Ransom, Jon Joffin, Craig Wrobleski, Ron Stannett, Thomas Del Ruth
Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/das-boot-1981 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:06:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/das-boot-1981
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:11:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bolivia-2001
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano
Cinematographer: Julián Apezteguia
A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hatred-of-a-minute-2002 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:39:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hatred-of-a-minute-2002
Director: Michael Kallio
Cinematographer: George Lieber
A tragic love story/psychlogical thriller, Hatred of a Minute, is the story of a medical transcriptionist that becomes a serial killer because of his physically and mentally abusive past. ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/anne-frank-remembered-1995 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:08:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/anne-frank-remembered-1995
Director: Jon Blair
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lust-och-fagring-stor-1995 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:08:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lust-och-fagring-stor-1995
Director: Bo Widerberg
Cinematographer: Morten Bruus
Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ulees-gold-1997 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:32:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ulees-gold-1997
Director: Victor Nunez
Cinematographer: Virgil Mirano
A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts. ]]>