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Meanwhile cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi shoots "entirely and proudly" on 35mm Kodak film, enriching the retro feel with a handsome widescreen image that oozes aching nostalgia.
The origins of the widescreen image can be traced to "Napoleon," which also featured hand-held camerawork, eye-blink-fast editing, gorgeous tints, densely layered superimpositions and images shot from a pendulum, a sled, a bicycle and a galloping horse.
Well, on one level, TV clearly has improved, with the move toward the rectangular 16x9 widescreen image meaning that modern TV dramas no longer need look 'boxy' or 'cropped', a long-standing aesthetic barrier.
Two nude men posed in the ruins of an ancient house, the widescreen image of a dog amid the stone and rubble of a desolate street, even a closeup of a person's rear end squeezed on a chair, dispels the sense of reportage in two contradictory directions — the abstract aestheticism of texture and the symbolic psychology of fantasy, materialist hyperrealism and reverberant surrealism.
Adjustable aspect ratio settings mean we must constantly contend with issues such as stretching, smart zooming, errant subtitles, HDMI-mode toggling, "letterboxing" (horizontal black bars above and below a widescreen image), "pillarboxing" (vertical black bars either side of an older, square-formatted image) and even the dreaded "windowboxing" (both letterboxing and pillarboxing at same time).
And a widescreen image fits better if you're doing things in full-screen as well, since nobody has 4 3 screens any more except iPad owners, and they can't do video chat.
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For Soderbergh, the substance of his tense, electric, high-wire widescreen images is the physical and moral satisfaction of physical action.
Alverson films the Comedian's lonely tour in the California desert with poised widescreen images that lend his grubby wanderings the mythic grandeur of a classic Western.
A Mediterranean cruise, bright sunshine, in black and white widescreen images unlike anything I'd ever seen — so precisely composed, accentuating and expressing... what?
Her widescreen images, filling the frame with landscapes and posing the three men in them with an understated choreographic incisiveness, have a tender, generous, and curious embrace; she conjures an emotional grandeur to match the film's geographical span.
In the latest up for comparison, The Company, Robert Altman has brought his formidable form of ensemble acting, widescreen images, overlapping dialogue and feeling for groups of people as semi-dysfunctional families, to bear on the Joffrey Ballet troupe of Chicago.
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