‘The Brutalist’ Revives Interest in VistaVision, a Format with an Aesthetic All Its Own, at TCM Festival

‘The Brutalist’ Revives Interest in VistaVision, a Format with an Aesthetic All Its Own, at TCM Festival

VistaVision is back. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” not only earned Lol Crawley the Best Cinematography Oscar but has sparked a renewed interest in the format — one that is now being further fanned by unconfirmed reports of the 35mm horizontal format also being used in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s untitled 2026 film, and Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights.”

The timing is…