>I would have trouble listing 10 films, made in the last 20 years, >that truly maximise the wide-screen format. This sounds like the call for a new thread. Limiting this to American movies (not out of chauvinism but because many if not most Hong Kong films use a lot of widescreen space and are nearly always letterboxed on video; pretty much the same for Indian films), off the top of my head: Kundun Rushmore Underneath The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Very Bad Things (only 1.85 but really uses that space) Face/Off The Hunt for Red October Mars Attacks ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite