Are the DVDs that were released in other countries full-frame or widescreen?
I know this film wound up in limited theatrical release in Europe, and I'm pretty certain that I read somewhere that it was filmed with the intention of being released theatrically in the USA (then it wound up premiering on cable), so I wondered if there's a widescreen print.
My UK DVD is fullscreen. The other Psycho movies are Widescreen (with the [possible exception of Psycho 1, I can't remember).
"Everybody cry when my big monkey die" - Dino DeLaurentiis.
I just watch this on the Universal HD channel and it was widescreen. and it looked great. Hope a DVD is coming soon.
shareActually, it wasn't in Widescreen... I saw the presentation myself - what they did was take the 4x3 image and crop the top and bottom off A LOT... and it fit fine on a 16x9 TV...
shareI have it in 1.33.1 full frame. And I think it was a TV movie, so back in 1990 it would have been shot in Full Frame and then cropped for a widescreen release.
"Light. Dark. What's the difference?" Day Watch.
Well actually it could have been composed for either ratio. Lots of TV movies of that era were composed so that they could be either 1.85x1 (very close to 16x9) or 1.33x1 (old school TV) because they could be sold to foreign distributors for theatrical screenings overseas.
Even some theatrical movies were composed with the same thing in mind. On the DVD for "The Blue Lagoon" the director mentions that his cinematographer wanted to shoot so that it would look good on TV. When he asked "why do you care so much about how it looks on TV, we're not making a TV movie." He responded by saying that many more people will watch the movie in that than will ever see it in the theater. The director than laments that he was right as here they are 20 years later recording a commentary for a DVD which will be sold on the home video market.