Posted by Frank Reynolds at spider-ta074.proxy.aol.com on May 12, 2001 at 10:33:42:
In Reply to: DV CAMERAS AND SE7EN posted by Vincent on May 12, 2001 at 09:30:12:
: That being said, DANCER IN THE DARK is a stunningly beautiful film and it was shot using standard DV. How Lars Von Trier got it to look so good is beyond me, but it looked great projected on a huge, wide screen in NYC. It didn't look remotely like film, but it looked great in it's own weird way.
On DANCER, the DV cameras actually had anarmorphic lenses on them, which squeezed the widescreen video image into 1:33, so none of the image area was wasted on cropping when it was transferred to widescreen film.