> Spielberg, Kubrick and Woody Allen are some American filmmakers with the > rare clout to insist only letter-box versions of their "art" be released. > Spielberg did it with ALWAYS. Allen did it with MANHATTAN. And Kubrick.... > well, in actuality he made only one "widescreen" film and that was in 1968. > He preferred having his films released on "full frame" video anyway, which > is why the recent DVD release of The Stanley Kubrick Collection is almost > all in that format. Meanwhile Spielberg and Allen know better than to touch > an anamorphic lens again. Joe Dante managed to get this with some releases of _Gremlins_, all releases of _Gremlins 2_ and _Innerspace_, but Spielberg produced all of them. He was not allowed widescreen on his director's cut of _Explorers_, which was not, contrary to what some people believe, a Spielberg production. Interestlingly, though he prefers widescreen (_Small Soldiers_ was unusually wide, even for a scope film), he released _Piranha_ in full-frame. His reason was that it was soft-matted, and since they expected it to receive most play on late night television, it was composed with the television frame in mind, not the theatre screen. Scott ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu