https://shotonwhat.com/projection-format/anamorphic-projection-format The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:53:47 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:34:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/avatar-2009
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982 Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:03:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blade-runner-1982
Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:41:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/minority-report-2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. ]]> 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/1941-1979 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:28:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/1941-1979
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. ]]> 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/kinds-of-kindness-2024 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:53:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kinds-of-kindness-2024
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual g... ]]> 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/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/guldjakken-fra-struer-til-hall-of-fame-2018 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:37:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/guldjakken-fra-struer-til-hall-of-fame-2018
Director: Jesper Elming
Cinematographer: Claus Frederiksen
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-deep-1977 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:55:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-deep-1977
Director: Peter Yates
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck. ]]> 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/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/the-matrix-reloaded-2003 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:58:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-matrix-reloaded-2003
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cinematographer: Bill Pope
Following the events of The Matrix (1999), Neo and the rebel leaders estimate they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams. ]]> 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/batman-begins-2005 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:05:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/batman-begins-2005
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. ]]> 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-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/john-wick-chapter-4-2023 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-4-2023
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-2019
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-2-2017 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-chapter-2-2017
Director: Chad Stahelski
Cinematographer: Dan Laustsen
After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-2014 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:57:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/john-wick-2014
Director: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Cinematographer: Jonathan Sela
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/memento-2000 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:51:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/memento-2000
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-batman-2022 Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:04:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-batman-2022
Director: Matt Reeves
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement. ]]> 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/showgirls-1995 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:47:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/showgirls-1995
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cinematographer: Jost Vacano
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/beauty-and-the-beast-3-2017 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:30:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/beauty-and-the-beast-3-2017
Director: Bill Condon
Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler
A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/it-2017 Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:29:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/it-2017
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cinematographer: Chung-hoon Chung
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/coco-2-2017 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 20:28:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/coco-2-2017
Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:25:48 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/la-jungle-est-mon-jardin-2022
Director: Enrico Alexander Giordano
An Ethiopian migrant, wants to join her sister in England. A former high-ranking soldier, has just delivered his wife from an incurable disease. Between these two marginals an unfailing relationship will be tied. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-2017 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:53:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-2017
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cinematographer: Ben Davis
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-accountant-2-2016 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:49:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-accountant-2-2016
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/never-say-never-again-1983 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:16:10 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/never-say-never-again-1983
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
James Bond is called upon to try to recover nuclear bombs stolen by Spectre, but he will have to get rid of a professional assassin, hired especially to eliminate him. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/10-1979 Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:14:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/10-1979
Director: Blake Edwards
Cinematographer: Frank Stanley
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/thoroughbreds-2017 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:29:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/thoroughbreds-2017
Director: Cory Finley
Cinematographer: Lyle Vincent
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost. ]]> 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/casino-royale-2-1967 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:15:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2-1967
Director: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge
Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2006 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:11:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casino-royale-2006
Director: Martin Campbell
Cinematographer: Phil Meheux
Armed with a license to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007, and must defeat a private banker to terrorists in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro, but things are not what they seem. ]]> 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/mollys-game-2017 Wed, 03 Jul 2024 23:43:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mollys-game-2017
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cinematographer: Charlotte Bruus Christensen
The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fight-club-1999 Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:52:18 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fight-club-1999
Director: David Fincher
Cinematographer: Jeff Cronenweth
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 21:54:26 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones-2002
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. ]]>