Posted by Lincoln Spector on 10/20/05 20:32

> Whoa... didn't he make the studio sign an oath in bile that EYES WIDE SHUT
> would *never* hit video in other than 4:3? (If not, what am I thinking
> of...) Odd, of course, since his magnum opus (imo) 2001:ASO was one of
> the first movies in Super-Panavision's 2.85:1 ... vs. today's norm of
> 2.35:1 ... (all facts unchecked, btw...)
And wrong. I think you're confusing SuperPanavision with UltraPanavision,
which had a negative ratio of 2.76:1--and it's possible that no films were
actually commercially projected that wide. Like all SuperPanavision films,
2001 was shot (and originally shown) in 2:21, with an awareness that the
35mm reduction prints for the later wide release would be vertically cropped
to 2.35.

But it is ironic that Kubrick disliked the wide screen, but his most
widely-regarded film was one of only two truly wide films he made (and with
the other, Spartacus, he had no say in the format it was shot in).

Lincoln

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