Unanswered Questions
26 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why do so many films in the 2010s leave the title to the end?
I've noticed the trend of leaving the title to the end especially in almost every single recent Marvel film, several Disney films, and some other action blockbusters. Personally I enjoy the effect of ...
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How much of No Time to Die is actually shot in ScreenX format?
My local cinema has a couple of ScreenX theaters where No Time to Die is showing.
But this article says that only some parts of the film extend to the side walls:
"No Time To Die" in ...
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Does 35 to 70 mm blow up lose a part of the image?
The Wikipedia article on 70 mm film has a section about the process of converting 35 mm film to 70 mm, or "blow-up".
Since 35 mm and 70 mm have different aspect ratios, does that mean that a part of ...
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Film technique at movie's end: summary of future events
Is there a name for text - mostly at a film's conclusion - that gives a summary of events that follow?
For example, at the end of Savage Messiah (2002) there appears writing on the screen that ...
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Errol Morris on Aspect Ratios
In a recorded interview on his film Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris declares that
[the film] is about photographs, how they reveal and conceal at the same time.
(This could be a ...
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What’s the significance of this extra scope
In “It Comes At Night” (2017), Travis faces hallucinations throughout the movie. Whenever this happens, this second scope kicks in.
This second scope also appears in the pre-climax scene, where Paul’s ...
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Does David Lynch's eerie atmosphere (closer to german "Unheimlich"), have a definition and clear origin?
One aspect that all of lynch's films have is that eerie feeling that something is not quite right, but I find that atmosphere to be different from pure surrealism. Did Lynch start this? Or does it ...
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How was the explosives scene shot?
In this picture, it can be seen that Faisal (role in this movie) is running towards the sheep.
Here, he got killed by explosives.
It was a continuous shot with no cuts; I wonder how this scene is ...
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Why use foreign accents in English language movies when unnecessary?
I've recently watched the movie Child 44, which is set in the 1950's Soviet Union during the Stalin regime. Apart from the fact that the movie itself is not memorable in my opinion, the thing that has ...
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Technical realisation of fade-to-black and freeze frame (analog)
I wanted to know how a fade-to-black was done in the old days (before digital editing and non-linear editing) but could not find any information.
In older movies and TV-productions (analog, before ...
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Is The Bear episode 3.01 (Tomorrow) the longest montage episode of television?
Episode 3.01 (Tomorrow) of the TV series, The Bear is primarily a montage, or argumentively, a series of montages, clocking at 36 mins.
While there are surely montages within other TV series episodes ...
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How common are films with a variable frame rate?
Avatar: The Way of Water uses 48 FPS for "fast moving" scenes and drops to 24 FPS (with duplicated frames) for others (source). Wikipedia's list of HFR films doesn't mention any others.
I'm ...
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Why was the ball singer obscured in ‘Borg McEnroe’?
Towards the end of Borg McEnroe, there is a clip from the Wimbledon Champions’ Ball.
The setting is quite a large room with a stage to one side, where a band with a female singer is playing jazz music....
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What's the deal with freeze-framing during opening credits?
I keep meaning to ask this question, every time I see a movie from the period (roughly 1960s through 1980s) where the opening credits are shown superimposed over an opening scene — but, every time ...
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How does the editing of lip-sync take place for non-native artists (especially in songs)?
I was going through this answer here, where @JasonCraig ends the answer with:
Later a huge portion of issues are sorted in the editing table.
So, I wanted to know what are the editing methods used ...
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