Why did Paul Thomas Anderson decide to shoot and release his new movie “One Battle After Another” in VistaVision, the 60-year-old widescreen format?
“VistaVision was a format that was invented to use more of a larger portion of the 35mm camera negative. So in other words, it is better,” Anderson explained in a video. The larger-sized film negative runs through the camera horizontally rather than vertically, resulting in a higher quality image.
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Only four movie theaters in the world are able to project the film in VistaVision — the Vista Theater in Los Angeles, the Regal Union Square 17 in New
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