‘One Battle After Another’ Formats: What Is VistaVision and What Are All the Ways to Watch?

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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