In a message dated 6/13/00 8:29:36 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>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.

Ed

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