What is it? (2005)

[Markus Lemm]

What is It?
Flat 1.85
Dolby SR
5 Reels
72 minutes

Pillar boxed 1.37

[Ryan Gallagher]

I guess they have always printed 1.37 inside of flat for the mass market 35mm in the cinema plex era. Easier than mandating alternate lenses I imagine. I wasn't in the industry to witness those.

I'm still curious if anyone has struck a contemporary print in that matting/format in the post-digital film "revival/fetish" era. That would feel disingenuous at least.

[Sascha Roll]

I guess they have always printed 1.37 inside of flat for the mass market 35mm in the cinema plex era. Easier than mandating alternate lenses I imagine. I wasn't in the industry to witness those.

I'm still curious if anyone has struck a contemporary print in that matting/format in the post-digital film "revival/fetish" era. That would feel disingenuous at least.

Not 1.37 pillarboxed inside 1.85 but also abysmal:
Afair MANK was printed in 2.20 spherical on 35mm - must be the smallest Image ever on 35mm for a Feature presentation. (For Trailers in the 90s and 2000s it became pretty common to have the Trailer in "F-239" as we would call it now.

I think there were also some 2.00:1 Flat prints releases, DOLOMITE IS MY NAME comes to my mind.