[Ryan L. Bisasky]

Someone a while back told me that if you see lens flares (like on car lights) that the movie was shot anamorphically, but i don't know that is true or not. Also, why are there some super 35 movies with a lot of lower frame information (dogma, kalifornia, terminator 3) and with some it just seems like they took the bars off the top and bottom (matrix 2 and 3, lord of the rings trillogy).

[Michael Reuben]

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Someone a while back told me that if you see lens flares (like on car lights) that the movie was shot anamorphically

Not exactly. You can get flares from any lens, but there's a certain type of lens flare that's typical of anamorphic lenses. It's a wide horizontal streak; for numerous examples, see Die Hard or Punch-Drunk Love, in both of which the directors and cinematographers seem to have deliberately incorporated them into the visual fabric of the film.

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Also, why are there some super 35 movies with a lot of lower frame information (dogma, kalifornia, terminator 3) and with some it just seems like they took the bars off the top and bottom (matrix 2 and 3, lord of the rings trillogy).

There are a different ways to derive the theatrical framing from a Super35 negative. That's up to the filmmakers.

PREEMPTIVE WARNING: Diatribes about the supposed "evils" or "inferiority" of Super35 have been thoroughly aired in previous threads (at least one of them in the Software Archive). It's a dead issue and off-topic for this thread.

M.

[Ryan L. Bisasky]

is there stuff to look for (as in framing ect) to look for to tell if it was anamorphic or super 35. and why not, why is super 35 so hated?

[Michael Reuben]

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is there stuff to look for (as in framing ect) to look for to tell if it was anamorphic or super 35.

Not really, other than anamorphic lens flares (and just because there aren't any doesn't mean the film wasn't shot with anamorphic lenses).

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and why not, why is super 35 so hated?

That's the issue I just designated as off-topic. Your best bet is to read the existing Super35 threads. I'm going to close this one, because there's really nothing new to say on the subject that hasn't already been said in previous threads.

M.