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Bill Hunt says that Warner Bros. has confirmed that Dune Part Two will be 2.39:1 only, no IMAX ratio. This suggest that I was right about Villeneuve only intending that version for IMAX theaters and not on home video.

Well, you didn't make the movie and he did. I haven't seen Dune 2 yet, but as far as Part 1 goes, I would have preferred that it not be so boring and maybe star someone less sullen and mopey than Timmy Chalamet. But I didn't make the movie, so I just have to accept that I don't get a say in...

Take a Marvel movie like Avengers: Endgame. That movie played in most theaters as 2.35:1. The movie was composed for 2.35:1. But before production, the IMAX corporation gave the studio a small pile of money and said, "Here, take this. Now give us a version of the movie that we can market as an...

Consider movies shot on traditional 35mm film with "flat" spherical lenses. Since the 1950s, the standard was to use the entire 1.37:1 film negative during photography but matte the image to 1.85:1 during projection. Those movies were composed for 1.85:1, and the extra picture above and below...

My point is that by opening the mattes, you take away all the close-ups and medium shots, and turn everything into wide master shots. That may be acceptable in an IMAX auditorium where the screen is so large it should exceed your field of vision, but it doesn't work on regular screen sizes...

As a photographer, when you take a picture of something, do you step all the way to the back of the room and shoot it from as far away as possible every time? I'd assume not. I expect that you'd want to compose your shots, make some of them close-ups, some medium, etc. And if the framing winds...

I did say some directors. Obviously, Christopher Nolan loves his Variable Aspect Ratio. There's also Michael Bay, whose last Transformers movie changes aspect ratio approximately every 1.3 seconds. Guys like them think the VAR format works fine on home video. However, other directors such as...

Consider what you really get in an open-matte transfer - mostly a bunch of empty headroom above the actors. In an IMAX theater, the screen is meant to be so large that it exceeds your field of vision. You shouldn't be able to see all the way to the top of the frame without craning your neck. The...

Villeneuve seems rather confused in that interview about the fact that we don't already have a Variable Aspect Ratio version on home video. Then he suggests that it would somehow be IMAX's responsibility to make that happen, which is not the case at all. There have been no announcements for a...