High Society 4K UHD (1956) from Warner Archive

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by animationisthebest

I confess that when I looked at 4K screenshots of The Brutalist's UHD by Elevation, I was actually surprised by how the grain doesn't look much finer than UHDs of 1950s VistaVision. I'm not even talking about detail, which the film's cinematographer said that he wanted a painterly and softer look to much of the film instead of it being razor-sharp. It's just that I was expecting an UHD of a modern VistaVision film, such as The Brutalist, to have much finer grain than one from a 1950s VistaVision film, but it wasn't what I expected. The difference felt minimal to me, based on the screenshots. Why? I'm mentioning the Elevation UHD of The Brutalist, because A24's is filtered.

Haven't seen it, but the film was shot on 250 speed and 500 speed stocks, even in VV that's not going to give you a pristine grainless image, nor was it intended to. But I've heard there's a fair bit of regular 3-perf 35mm in there as well, which will of coursh look much more conventionally grainy so that may be where the confusion comes from.