wide-screen

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Across five novels and three story collections, Lauren Groff has merged wide-screen history with intimate stories about women seeking and confronting power, including in her latest spirited — and triumphant — release “Brawler.”

From Los Angeles Times

But in retrospect, we should have known — it was the kind of something-for-everyone entertainment that recalled blockbusters of the past, deftly combining historical drama, wide-screen adventure and heartfelt romance.

From New York Times

It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one.

From New York Times

Here, this square framing has the old-fashioned quality of early still photographs, particularly in some of the opening scenes, which avoids the postcard-like associations these landscapes might have had in wide-screen.

From New York Times

This is the same aspect ratio used since the standardization of sound in film, until the wide-screen formats were introduced in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times