11 August 2009

Steven Soderbergh on Aspect Ratios

Essay by Steven Soderbergh on how premium movie channels are showing anamorphic films in flat. Not ever having had HBO (nor even cable right now) I haven’t noticed this, but Netflix’s Instant Queue movies all seem to be 16×9. I haven’t bought any movies from iTunes, so I don’t know what they’re doing. See also An In Depth Talk with Leon Vitali, about Stanley Kubrick’s aspect ratio quandaries.