Comments on: Stanley Kubrick’s Projection Memo For ‘Barry Lyndon’; David Lynch Wanted ‘Mulholland Drive’ Louder

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

Kubrick wisely liked squarer compositions. Super widescreen is ****. The Barry Lyndon bluray looks too cleaned up and the cropping is an abomination to anyone intimately familiar with the film. Minor trimming? Nope, it destroys the painterly shape of the frame.

By: gonad

gonad — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

Hopefully one day they\’ll be a boxset of ALL his movies in the correct aspect ratios.

By: Rszanto

Rszanto — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

1.66 was the European projection standard at the time, which was easily adjustable to the American standard (1.85) by the projectionist. Starting with \”The Shining,\” Kubrick shot 1.33 full frame (in order to protect the image for its inevitable VHS release), but composed the frame for 1.85. Most of this info has long been available in the Tachen book, \”The Kubrick Archives.\” It\’s a shame Warner\’s didn\’t pay enough attention…

By: Kathleen Walsh

Kathleen Walsh — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

Yeah, David Lynch is a stickler for sound– I heard he went into the projection booth at Cannes when \”Wild at Heart\” was playing and had them crank the volume.

By: Nik Grape

Nik Grape — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

Well…that sucks. Will Warner actually release it as it was intended?

By: gonad

gonad — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:19:29 +0000

Kubrick should have just shot everything after 2001 in 1.85, but no, he had to be different didn\’t he 😛 And now that he\’s six feet in the ground and every new DVD/Blu-ray release gets it all wrong, it seems so bittersweet. But it was different back then, this was before widescreen home tv\’s and when pan-and-scan VHS was the hot potato of the day.