The Brutalist in Vistavision

[Scotty Wright]

(Side note: there's a lot of confusion out there about what the actual shooting format of The Brutalist is. Reviewers have claimed it was all shot in VistaVision, or 70mm, and called it "widescreen" which it isn't or at least not what I think of as wide, a.k.a. wider than 2-to-1. Wikipedia lists 16mm and 35mm as negative formats. The 16mm part I guess means the Philedelphia travelogue sequences near the start, which are either from an actual old travelogue or made to look like one. In the case of 35mm, how much if any of it was shot in a horizontal VistaVision camera seems to be a matter of who said what. Didn't someone on this thread say all the 35mm stuff was plain 4-perf framed at 1.66, which would mean practically all of the film? I have nothing against blowup prints, but that's not real VistaVision, unless that just means a certain aspect ratio these days, for those it means anything at all to.)

I haven’t found a breakdown of percentages, but according to the editor, they used a combination of nearly everything: 8mm, 16mm, Super 16, 2perf 35mm, 4perf 35mm, 8 perf 35mm, beta cam and 1 shot with an Arri Alexa. But VistaVision was their A-camera with a couple exceptions (the opening arrival at Ellis on the boat was 2perf 35mm and the epilogue in Venice was DigiBeta).

[Luis Wesner]

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there's a lot of confusion out there about what the actual shooting format of The Brutalist is.

Brady Corbet and Lol Crawley, the cinematographer, have said it multiple interview that the movie is shoot on VistaVision for the vast majority on it. They are some few parts throughout shot on 16mm and 4-perf 35mm and the very end is shot on Digibeta, but for the most part the film is indeed shot on 8-perf 35mm.