"" The film was shot in Ultra Panavision 70 with lenses that yielded an aspect ratio of 2.76 to 1, and it was breathtaking," Scorsese said. "But it wasn't just the size of the image, it was the imprint of the man behind the camera who knew how to fill that frame, how to compose it. And composer seems like the right word to describe George Stevens and the extraordinary level of artistry he reached at that point in his life and career.""
""He began to pay very close attention to evil, to the greed and the hatred and the raw murderous violence that can overtake us all if we don't all pay attention," Scorsese said. "Those pictures are grand cinematic canvases, but they're also urgent warnings to take care of our goodness and our love.""
"'"The Greatest Story Ever Told' is the summation," Scorsese said. "It's the final movement of Stevens' multi-picture symphony. Stevens chose to enact the story on a scale of mythic grandeur and timeless immensity.""
A 4K restoration of George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told premiered at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, with restoration assistance from the Film Foundation. The film was shot in Ultra Panavision 70 with lenses yielding a 2.76:1 aspect ratio, producing an expansive, breathtaking image and precise compositional framing. Stevens' postwar films adopted heightened moral urgency, confronting greed, hatred and murderous violence as warnings to protect goodness and love. Stevens, not especially religious, used the life of Jesus to explore these universal themes on a mythic, grand scale, presenting the film as a summative final movement of his artistry.
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