What’s old became new and exciting again this year for moviegoers, who packed into Imax theaters to see Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another projected in large format. Both movies, along with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia , were shot in VistaVision — with cinematographers Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Michael Bauman and Robbie Ryan, respectively, at the helm — a format that, until last year’s Oscar winner for best cinematography, The Brutalist , hadn’t been used for a feature film since 1961.

“Everyone’s looking for something new; they want to be woken up, jolted out of their seat,” says Sinner s DP Arkapaw of the buzz around the films.

What’s old became new and exciting again this year for moviegoers, who packed into Imax theaters to see Ryan Coogler

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