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11-11-2003, 01:52 PM
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Greatest cinematographers?
Some all-time greats:
Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Miss Oyu, Ugetsu Monogatari, Sansho Dayu, Yojimbo..)
Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist, Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky..)
Sven Nykvist (Persona, Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Sacrifice..)
Gregg Toland (Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath, Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives..)
Edouard Tissé (Strike, Battleship Potemkin, Alexabder Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible 1&2)
Robbie Muller (Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, Paris Texas, Breaking the Waves)
Robert Burks (Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Birds..)
Gordon Willis (Klute, The Godfather series, All the President's Men, Annie Hall, Manhattan..)
Jack Cardiff (A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes..)
Raoul Coutard (A Bout de Souffle, Shoot the Pianist, Jules et Jim, Pierrot le Fou..)
Nestor Almendros (My Night with Maud, Claire's Knee, Anne and Muriel, Days of Heaven..)
Robert Krasker (Henry V- Olivier, Brief Encounter, Odd Man Out, The Third Man, El Cid)
Douglas Slocombe (Dead of Night, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Servant, Raiders of the Lost Ark..)
Conrad Hall (Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, The Road to Perdition)
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11-11-2003, 02:45 PM
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You've got many of the greats. Also...
Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report, Catch Me if you Can, Amistad, Schindler's List)
Darius Khondji (Panic Room, Seven, Delicatessen)
Jordan Cronenweth (State of Grace, Stop Making Sense, Blade Runner, Altered States, Rattle & Hum)
Lun Yang (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou)
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11-11-2003, 04:16 PM
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Ah yes, i keep forgetting Kaminski, though his name reminds me of the beginning of Lubitsch's classic comedy To Be or Not to Be!
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11-11-2003, 04:50 PM
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One of my current favorites is Christopher Doyle. A favorite of Wong Kar-Wai, he was also responsible for Rabbit-Proof Fence and The Quiet American.
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11-11-2003, 05:07 PM
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I was about to mention Doyle too. A few more:
Benoit Delhomme (Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo, What Time Is It There?)
Robert Yeoman (Drugstore Cowboy, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums)
John Alcott (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining)
Thomas Mauch (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo)
Frederick Elmes (Eraserhead, River's Edge, Blue Velvet, The Ice Storm)
Roger Deakins (Sid & Nancy, Shawshank Redemption, all the Coen Bros movies since Barton Fink)
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11-11-2003, 05:08 PM
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Where's the love for Robert Richardson (Kill Bill, Platoon, Talk Radio, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, The Doors)?
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11-12-2003, 01:10 AM
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Shame on you guys.
No mention yet of Freddie Young!?
Glad to see Robby Muller mentioned! He has also been the DP on Dead Man, Down by Law and other Jim Jarmusch movies and does beautiful work.
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11-12-2003, 01:52 AM
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Not to squelch the discussion ( please continue by all means ) here is a link to an older Cinematography draft that contains a number of great films and cinematographers...
Cinematography Draft
- Walter.
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11-12-2003, 11:30 AM
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Michael Ballhaus - Whity, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, Fox And His Friends, Chinese Roulette, The Marriage Of Maria Braun, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gangs of New York
Roger Deakins - Barton Fink, Fargo, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There
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Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C
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11-12-2003, 11:37 AM
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Jack Cardiff ... yes
I'd add Freddie Francis
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11-12-2003, 12:22 PM
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Sacha Vierny (Année dernière à Marienbad, Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Cook, The Thief His Wife & Her Lover)
Also, John Alton for all his great film noirs and Mario Bava
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11-12-2003, 12:40 PM
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Ballhaus' work; an interesting combination for Fassbinder and Scorsese. His use of reflective surfaces in Chinese Roulette makes the film, and he does a great job too on The Age of Innocence, which is surely the director's most underrated film.
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