https://shotonwhat.com/projection-format/spherical-projection-format The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:53:03 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:38:36 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-39-steps-1935
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Bernard Knowles
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information. ]]> 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/strangers-on-a-train-1951 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:53:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/strangers-on-a-train-1951
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematographer: Robert Burks
A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:16:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-terminator-1984
Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs. ]]> 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/the-ring-two-2005 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:05:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-ring-two-2005
Director: Hideo Nakata
Cinematographer: Gabriel Beristain
6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:41:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/touch-of-evil-1958
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951 Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:39:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/othello-1951
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: G.R. Aldo, Anchise Brizzi, George Fanto, Alberto Fusi, Oberdan Troiani
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. ]]> 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-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/confidential-report-1955 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:27:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/confidential-report-1955
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Jean Bourgoin
An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape. ]]> 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/macbeth-1948 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:38:43 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/macbeth-1948
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/following-1998
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Christopher Nolan
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:18:21 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-magnificent-ambersons-1942
Director: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez, Jack MacKenzie, Orson Welles
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. ]]> 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-stranger-3-1946 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:46:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-stranger-3-1946
Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:26:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-castle-1997
Director: Rob Sitch
Cinematographer: Miriana Marusic
A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ad-2005 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:58:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ad-2005
Director: Timuçin Leflef
Cinematographer: Timuçin Leflef, Kristian O'Neill, Darren Rowan
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/roses-film-cabaret-2021 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:36:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/roses-film-cabaret-2021
Director: Irena Stetsenko
Cinematographer: Serhiy Stetsenko
ROSES. Film-Cabaret is a documentary cinéma vérité, following Dakh Daughters - an intellectual freak cabaret band, created by seven actresses under the roof of Kyiv experimental ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/verwaant-2023 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:35:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/verwaant-2023
Director: Syb Faes
Cinematographer: Bregje Pontzen
Charlie wants to escape her world in the middle of her teenage years and looks for a new life with an elderly man with dementia and his grumpy brother Franciscus. Life is good, but will that stay her ideal place in the future as w... ]]> 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/kacke-kost-geld-2021 Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:19:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kacke-kost-geld-2021
Director: Joël Mulder
Cinematographer: Mans Buskop
Sheep herder Roelof Kuipers has a dream: starting an 'experience farm'. But how does he envision all this? It starts with a flock of sheep, a public toilet, a turkey and a look in the attic. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019 Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:02:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-legend-of-the-white-ibex-2019
Director: Markus Otz
Cinematographer: Kurt Amzos
«The Legend of the White Ibex» is a narrative short film, with a cinematic cut in a poetic philosophical genre that compares the human soul with the forces of the universe, in the awareness of the indispensable necessity of the ma... ]]> 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/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/control-delete-2024 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:53:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/control-delete-2024
Director: Kris van Melle
Cinematographer: Britt Adriaansen
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/post-mortem-2022 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:20:03 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/post-mortem-2022
Director: Luca Larsen
Cinematographer: Mans Buskop
Two detectives, Rashad and Safiya, have been sent to investigate a crime scene. While Rashad unsuspectingly searches through rooms, the investigation takes a turn for Safiya when she discovers that she knows the victim. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/2030-2022 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:29:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/2030-2022
Director: Tim Eickhoff
Cinematographer: Tim Grau
2030. In a new world. Pregnancies are forbidden. Emily must make a life changing decision. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sya-2018 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:24:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sya-2018
Director: Daniel Sowter
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
In the small town of Quaint, Bruce Levin (Adam Templar) owns a respectable B&B establishment. Sleeping around with various women behind his wife's back, he does not realise that his actions are soon to catch up with him in the for... ]]> 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/kompas-2024 Tue, 28 May 2024 15:25:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kompas-2024
Director: Luca Larsen
Cinematographer: Isabella Klauwers
On the Dutch coast, old friends Kas and Maartje meet for the first time in seven years. Things have changed, so a dilemma arises in Kas's mind: fall back into naive nostalgia or move on to a new kind of relationship? ]]> 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/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/just-my-imagination-2017 Fri, 24 May 2024 01:25:42 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/just-my-imagination-2017
Director: Sidney Berthier
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
A young woman struggles to recover from an ex-lover's attack. Escaping through books and imagination, she wanders around her favorite park to seek solace. ]]> 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/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/blood-cell-2019 Tue, 14 May 2024 16:58:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/blood-cell-2019
Director: Daniel Sowter
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/they-love-2014 Mon, 13 May 2024 18:17:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/they-love-2014
Director: Daniel Sowter
Cinematographer: Mat Dean
A dark love story between Jack and Monica, Jack is the guy with all the love in the world and no one to share it with, Monica the lady who has more than her fair share of Lust... but never love. By a chance meeting these two unluc... ]]> 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/her-satanic-majesty-2016 Sat, 11 May 2024 20:15:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/her-satanic-majesty-2016
Director: Sidney Berthier
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
A gorgeous woman ruins a neurotic man's youth. In his own words: ' - It all started with this one. She was upper-class. She gave me the best b****** of my life. Until she broke the heart I didn't know I had.' ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:36:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cobra-verde-1987
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Viktor Ruzicka
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/angie-lemaire-2019 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:31:47 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/angie-lemaire-2019
Director: Sidney Berthier
Cinematographer: Danielius Gedvilas
In her mid-20s, Angie is interviewed as she tries to understand how and why her brother David committed dark and terrible deeds, which led to him being sectioned. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/french-story-2024 Sun, 05 May 2024 05:11:11 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/french-story-2024
Director: Sidney Berthier
Cinematographer: Sidney Berthier
Years after the crime, three clueless investigators discuss the disappearance of a young tourist in a small French town. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:30:56 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/woodstock-1970
Director: Michael Wadleigh
Cinematographer: Malcolm Hart, Don Lenzer, Michael Margetts, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Michael Wadleigh, Alfred Wertheimer
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/fitzcarraldo-1982 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:06:23 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/fitzcarraldo-1982
Director: Werner Herzog
Cinematographer: Thomas Mauch
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/funny-games-1997 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:39:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/funny-games-1997
Director: Michael Haneke
Cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-iron-claw-2023 Sat, 13 Apr 2024 05:15:28 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-iron-claw-2023
Director: Sean Durkin
Cinematographer: Mátyás Erdély
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. ]]>