To produce this new Blu-ray release of The Court Jester the original film elements were scanned at 6K, then downconverted to 2K HD for the Blu-ray release. This reduced the primary benefit of VistaVision and, not incidentally, also saved money (running film horizontally through the camera used it up fast). Eventually the process was abandoned (apart from that ongoing use for special effects) when film with a finer grain structure became available.
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But practical issues kept it from being widely used in the full production chain from the set to the theater screen. The 35mm film was run through the gate horizontally, offering more real estate for each frame than the standard vertical orientation. The VistaVision process was originally designed to reduce the graininess of color film. It was used, for example, in the creation of the effects for some of the early Star Wars and Star Trek films when CGI wasn't yet a thing. It's long-since been dropped as a release format, but was sometimes employed for in-camera special effects created for non-VistaVision productions, particularly in the pre-CGI era.
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The movie was originally shot in VistaVision, a widescreen process used (mainly by Paramount) in the 1950s and 60s. A spanking new Blu-ray of the film has just been released in a video transfer nothing short of stunning. We passed on it that time around, but that old DVD has now taken its last spin. I had it on DVD, but I knew it looked good enough to satisfy non-critical viewers who likely also wouldn't be bothered by its 1950s mono sound.
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On the TV side, he reaped Emmy nominations in 2018 for his guest performance as Robert Mueller in “Saturday Night Live” and for producing “When They See Us,” previously competing for producing and starring in “The Wizard of Lies” in 2017. In addition to his Oscar success, De Niro won the Golden Globe for “Raging Bull,” earning their Cecil B.
Though he’s worked with some of Hollywood’s top directors, De Niro is best known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, starting with “Mean Streets” (1973) and leading to “Taxi Driver,” “New York, New York” (1977), “The King of Comedy” (1983), “Goodfellas” (1990), “Cape Fear,” “Casino” (1995) and “The Irishman.” Never ones to rest on their laurels, the duo are reuniting yet again for the upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon,” also starring Scorsese favorite (not to mention De Niro’s costar in “This Boy’s Life”) Leonardo Di Caprio. “Taxi Driver” (1976), “The Deer Hunter” (1978), “Awakenings” (1990) and “Cape Fear” (1991) earned him subsequent nominations in lead, and he reaped another bid in supporting for “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) and one in Best Picture for “The Irishman” (2019). He hit the jackpot yet again for his role as boxer Jake LaMotta in Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” (1980), which brought him a victory in Best Actor.
Robert De Niro has been a frequent presence at the Academy Awards, winning his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for playing young Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather, Part II” (1974).
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