>The suggestion that the widescreen image is "the artist's original vision"
>(you use the phrase a number of times) and that filmmakers "continue to
>have as their first choice the widescreen perspective" is further
>challenged when we have confirmation from our resident expert that "very
>few cinemas can show anything except 1:1.85 and scope" (which is why the
>theatrical version of Eyes Wide Shut is NOT Kubrick's "original vision").
>It also explains why we don't see the old Academy standard (1.66:1) very
>much anymore (i.e Taxi Driver).
You seem to be implying that filmmakers do not work in 1.33:1 because the
theaters are not equipped to show it. That's is quite simply not true, as
evidenced by the wide release of The Blair Witch Project in just that ratio.