"Telluride is not on my annual festival calendar-too distant, too costly-and I'm at Toronto rarely, only with a film. So as a New Yorker, my personal fall awards season kicks off with the New York Film Festival. Like Telluride, it's a non-competitive festival that showcases and celebrates the best of each year's new crop, and it has the advantage of relying less on premieres and more on outstanding films gleaned from earlier festivals like Berlin, Cannes, and Sundance."
"In practice, there's no discernible difference between 1.33 and 1.37, and screens were always 1.33 only. Nonetheless, Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors, a grim drama set mostly in a drab Soviet prison during Stalin's Great Purge, adopts a 1.37 ratio, despite being shot with an ARRI Alexa Mini and Ultra Prime lenses. Loznitsa relies on a static camera, desaturated hues, and murky lighting."
New York Film Festival functions as a non-competitive showcase that prefers outstanding films from Berlin, Cannes, and Sundance rather than world premieres. Attendance at NYFF included 29 films, four carrying Netflix branding and eight slated for MUBI distribution, indicating significant streaming presence alongside theatrical windows. A notable technical trend was renewed use of the 1.33:1/1.37:1 aspect ratio in four films, reflecting a return to early 35mm framing. Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors used 1.37 despite modern digital cameras, employing static compositions, desaturated hues, and murky lighting.
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