Published July 8, 2021, 1:42 PM
Not sure about it? Let Nespresso Talents 2021 Filipino champions convince you
Through 100 years of Philippine cinema, Filipino viewers have marveled on the talent and craftsmanship of local filmmakers as they present stories through reels flashed on horizontal big screens. Seeing movies in that size and format has its purpose. Just think of it. How could we understand the grand scale of despair in Ishmael Bernal’s “
Himala” if we cannot see the barren land and its horizon? Landscape screen also gives ample space to show how alone a character is or how heavy a scene is with a crowd. In a more literal sense, it gives a bigger, and better, picture of things.