https://shotonwhat.com/film-negative-pulldown/4-perf The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Sun, 19 May 2024 19:45:48 -0800 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/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/ate-que-a-vida-nos-separe-2000 Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:54:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ate-que-a-vida-nos-separe-2000
Director: José Zaragoza
Cinematographer: Rodolfo Sánchez
A group of friends in Sao Paulo see each other regularly in different venues of this huge metropolis, and act as their own de-facto family. They are similar in many ways, all upper middle class professionals between 28 and 32 year... ]]> 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/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/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/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/the-lighthouse-2019 Sun, 19 May 2024 19:45:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lighthouse-2019
Director: Robert Eggers
Cinematographer: Jarin Blaschke
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. ]]> 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-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:33:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-2001
Director: Peter Jackson
Cinematographer: Andrew Lesnie
A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. ]]> 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/poltergeist-1982 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:33:40 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/poltergeist-1982
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cinematographer: Matthew F. Leonetti
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/unbreakable-2000 Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:21:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/unbreakable-2000
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950 Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:56:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sunset-blvd-1950
Director: Billy Wilder
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. ]]> 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/the-prisoner-1967 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:07:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-prisoner-1967
Director: Patrick McGoohan, Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, David Tomblin, Robert Asher, Peter Graham Scott
Cinematographer: Brendan J. Stafford
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-very-long-engagement-2004 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:52:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-very-long-engagement-2004
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One. ]]> 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/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2003 Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:06:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2003
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cinematographer: Daniel Pearl
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cotton-wool-2017 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:32:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cotton-wool-2017
Director: Nicholas Connor
Cinematographer: Alan C. McLaughlin
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 23:52:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/back-to-the-future-1985
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/watchmen-2009 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:14:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/watchmen-2009
Director: Zack Snyder
Cinematographer: Larry Fong
In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bruce-almighty-2003 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:09:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bruce-almighty-2003
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/live-free-or-die-hard-2007 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 13:46:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/live-free-or-die-hard-2007
Director: Len Wiseman
Cinematographer: Simon Duggan
John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/friendships-field-1995 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:39:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/friendships-field-1995
Director: Bruce Neibaur
Cinematographer: Matthew Williams
Set on a rural farm during the Sixties, this film tells the story of Ira and Oscar, two kids who stay faithful companions despite the racism and prejudice towards Oscar on the farm. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/american-pastime-2007 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:35:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/american-pastime-2007
Director: Desmond Nakano
Cinematographer: Matthew Williams
The dramatic impact W.W.II had in the home-front as U.S. Japanese families were uprooted from their daily lives and placed in internment camps in western States in the early 1940s. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:14:15 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/body-of-lies-2008
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Alexander Witt
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/deep-impact-1998 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:34:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/deep-impact-1998
Director: Mimi Leder
Cinematographer: Dietrich Lohmann
Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive? ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:31:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cloud-atlas-2012
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Frank Griebe, John Toll
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-park-1993 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 03:32:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/jurassic-park-1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Dean Cundey
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:05:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/transformers-2007
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: Mitchell Amundsen
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/honey-i-blew-up-the-kid-1992 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:19:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/honey-i-blew-up-the-kid-1992
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cinematographer: John Hora
The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/rocky-balboa-2006 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:11:54 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/rocky-balboa-2006
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cinematographer: Clark Mathis
Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight; against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/elf-2003 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:48:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/elf-2003
Director: Jon Favreau
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
After discovering he is a human, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole decides to travel to New York City to locate his real father. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hulk-2003 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:44:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hulk-2003
Director: Ang Lee
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:27:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/don-quixote-1973
Director: Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music by John Lanchbery. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/billys-hollywood-screen-kiss-1998 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:22:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/billys-hollywood-screen-kiss-1998
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Cinematographer: Mark Mervis
Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lust-for-life-1956 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:52:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lust-for-life-1956
Director: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan, Freddie Young
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-wild-north-1952 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:52:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-wild-north-1952
Director: Andrew Marton
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/alibabhavum-narpathu-thirudargalum-1955 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:52:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/alibabhavum-narpathu-thirudargalum-1955
Director: T.R. Sundaram
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/les-3-mousquetaires-1953 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:51:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/les-3-mousquetaires-1953
Director: André Hunebelle
Cinematographer: Marcel Grignon
D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lava-kusa-1963 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:51:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lava-kusa-1963
Director: Rao C.S.R., Chittajalu Pullayya
Cinematographer: Roy P.L.
This movie deals with the later part of Ramayana written by Valmiki Maharshi and depicts the lives of the sons of Rama & Sita. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/grun-ist-die-heide-1951 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:51:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/grun-ist-die-heide-1951
Director: Hans Deppe
Cinematographer: Kurt Schulz
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/orpheus-in-der-unterwelt-1975 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:51:17 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/orpheus-in-der-unterwelt-1975
Director: Horst Bonnet
Cinematographer: Otto Hanisch
Orpheus in the underworld. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-mutineer-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:45:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-mutineer-2015
Director: John Jaquish
Cinematographer: John Jaquish
A group of criminals, fleeing a gun possession charge, take over a farm in rural Appalachia and attempt to secede from the United States. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/furious-7-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:27:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/furious-7-2015
Director: James Wan
Cinematographer: Marc Spicer, Stephen F. Windon
Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gallery-of-horror-1967 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:26:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gallery-of-horror-1967
Director: David L. Hewitt
Cinematographer: Austin McKinney
John Carradine narrates five horror tales with macabre twists. A couple fixes a strange old clock. The Scotland Yard is after a serial killer. A murdered scientist seeks revenge. The last two stories focus on Frankenstein and Dracula. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-1961 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:25:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-story-of-the-count-of-monte-cristo-1961
Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Cinematographer: Jean Isnard, Jacques Natteau
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ... ]]>