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Technical question: Son of Saul distributed to theaters in actual film?

posted 9 years ago by TsarStepan
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Watched or better yet physically felt (the living Hell) Son of Saul yesterday at Film Forum in NYC (a small[!] nonprofit movie theater).

And was the ratio supposed to be squarish? Or was something lost in translation (projector and screen wise) in the projection process?

Not an expert in this arena but it looked closer to 1:1 (square) then the reported Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1 (which according to Google Images is rectangular).

Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1

Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219)

Cinematographic Process Spherical

Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)
D-Cinema

Was I missing something in the projection on this theater's screen? Am I misunderstanding aspect ratios? Or given the movie's damning subject, is my question needlessly ... critical/useless?

~An almond croissant filled with sweet almond paste but filled with ennui instead. C'est moi!

[–] TsarStepan 9 years ago

Film Forum ‏@FilmForumNYC · 1h1 hour ago

@tsarstepan @IMDb The film is 1:33.

~An almond croissant filled with sweet almond paste but filled with ennui instead. C'est moi!

[–] Trax-3 9 years ago

The film is Academy ratio. 1.37. It was finished photochemically and an actual film print is probably the filmmakers preferred way of presenting it. There certainly are prints in circulation thogh most places are probably showing a DCP.

[–] LordInsect 9 years ago

It was a square when I saw it too in Budapest, it's most definitely intended, it accentuates the claustrophobic atmosphere the film already has with everything filmed in close up.

"Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

[–] MoviemanCin 9 years ago

Exactly!

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.