DP Michael Bauman on One Battle After Another

For the first time since 2002s Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson has made a movie with a contemporary setting. To do so, he used a film format dormant for the last half century. Andersons One Battle After Another continues a resurgence of VistaVision that now includes The Brutalist and Yorgos Lanthimos Poor Things and Bugonia. The format, which uses 8-perf 35mm traveling through the camera horizontally rather than vertically to create a larger negative, gained popularity as a non-anamorphic...