The Oscar-tipped The Brutalist was shot in VistaVision, a film format last used in the 1950s. To understand why we need to dive into the fascinating history of cinematic film formats.
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In the early 1950s, Hollywood introduced numerous widescreen formats in an effort to compete with the rise of television; the thinking was that the spectacle of CinemaScope, Cinerama, and other ...
Adrien Brody says that while he’s “receptive to working with a variety of material” as an actor, taking on the title of director is “definitely not” in the cards for now., but possibly ...
Everything about it is oversized — from its ambitious runtime to the sheer production scale. Shot on 35mm VistaVision, the film spans over three and a half hours and generated more than 10 million ...
Composer Daniel Blumberg didn't take it for granted that any of the world-class musicians he asked would want to work on the score for "The Brutalist." Traveling with a suitcase full of ...
DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” VistaVision was designed as a competitor to 20th Century Fox’s Cinema- Scope, which employed an anamorphic lens to ...
The story of The Brutalist's impressive journey from conception to creation, all on a relatively tiny budget for its VistaVision-sized ambitions, has been pretty exhaustively covered by now.
Co-writer and director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was shot on film, in the nearly vanished VistaVision format, and while it gets a little lost in its second half — the third time I saw ...