Directors Cinematography Draft (1 Viewer)

[Agee Bassett]

Up next:

Walter Kittel

vs.

Justin_S

OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH.

Walter's selections have met with a full gallery of support, so I'm going with Justin_S--and not because I necessarily needed that excuse to vote for his list, either. On his list, Justin_S sports at least four of the most wondrously-photographed movies ever.

Good stuff, Justin_S.

 

[Gabe D]

Justin, barely.

 

[SteveGon]

Walter wins 6 - 2.


Up next:

Rain

The Big Lebowski - Roger Deakins
Children of Paradise - Marc Fossard & Roger Hubert
The Graduate - Robert Surtees
JFK - Robert Richardson
Klute - Gordon Willis
Magnolia - Robert Elswit
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Roger Deakins
Play Time - Jean Badal & Andréas Winding
The Red Shoes - Jack Cardiff
Saving Private Ryan - Janusz Kaminski
Seconds - James Wong Howe
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - Winton Hoch
Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Vittorio Storaro
Vertigo - Robert Burks
Wild Strawberries - Gunnar Fischer


vs.


Brook_K


Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Thomas Mauch
Barry Lyndon - John Alcott
Do the Right Thing - Ernest Dickerson
A Hard Day's Night - Gilbert Taylor
High Noon - Floyd Crosby
M - Fritz Arno Wagner
The Night of the Hunter - Stanley Cortez
Ran - Asakazu Nakai, Takao Saito & Masaharu Ueda
Rebecca - George Barnes
Russian Ark - Tillman Buttner
Suspiria - Luciano Tovoli
Taxi Driver - Michael Chapman
West Side Story - Daniel L. Fapp
Woman In The Dunes - Hiroshi Segawa
Written on the Wind - Russell Metty

Going with Brook, by a very slim margin.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

I think my brain might explode.

Ummm...

Ouch.

Brook

No, wait!

Okay, yes, Brook.

 

[Lew Crippen]

What Chuck wrote

Brook

 

[Walter Kittel]

Two great lists, which makes the process extremely difficult. There are a few on Brook's list that I haven't viewed, so perhaps this is a tad unfair, but Rain has more films that I'd like to have on my list - especially in the bottom half of his group of films.

One of my big regrets on my list was not including a film by James Wong Howe, and Rain's inclusion of Seconds gets big points from me. On the other hand, I hate voting against Rebecca, which is my favorite B&W Hitchcock. George Barnes is another cinematographer I wouldn't mind having on my list.

Rain

- Walter.

 

[SteveGon]

I agree - this is without a doubt, the toughest-to-vote-in draft yet. Everyone has superb lists.

Okay, I'll be running one more draft and I decided to go with history-based movies. I ran a History and the Movies tourney some time ago that was popular so it seems like a good subject for a draft. If you're interested, let me know - there will only be eight players, myself included.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

BTW, I am at this moment listening to "I Am A Cinematographer" by Palace Brothers.

I am a cinematographer
I am a cinematographer
Oh, I am a cinematographer
Oh, I am a cinematographer

And I walked away from New York City
And I walked away from everything that's good
And I walked away from everything I lean on
Only to find it's made of wood
Made of wood

And I was a big ol' bear once
Oh, I was a big ol' bear once
Oh, I was a big ol' bear once
Oh, I was a big ol' bear once

And I walked away from California
And I walked away from everything that shone
And I walked away from everything I lived for
Only to find that everything had grown
Everything had grown

Now I am a cinematographer
Oh, I am a cinematographer
Oh, I am a cinematographer
Oh, I am a cinematographer

If you were alone
You can walk away from Louisville

 

[Agee Bassett]

The beads say Brook. I think they liked the more balanced color/b&w ratio.

 

[SteveGon]

Brook advances to the final with a 4 - 1 win.


Up next:

Agee Bassett

The Conformist - Vittorio Storaro
Day of Wrath - Carl Andersson
The Devil and Daniel Webster - Joseph August
Duel in the Sun - Lee Garmes, Harold Rosson, Ray Rennahan
Gone With the Wind - Ernest Haller, Ray Rennahan, Lee Garmes
Lawrence of Arabia - Freddie Young
The Magnificent Ambersons - Stanley Cortez
Oliver Twist - Guy Green
The Passion of Joan of Arc - Rudolph Mate
Portrait of Jennie - Joseph August
The Scarlet Empress - Bert Glennon
The Seventh Seal - Gunnar Fischer
Touch of Evil - Russell Metty
2001: A Space Odyssey - Geoffrey Unsworth & John Alcott
Walkabout - Nicholas Roeg


vs.


Walter Kittel

Black Narcissus - Jack Cardiff
Citizen Kane - Gregg Toland
Days of Heaven - Nestor Almendros & Haskell Wexler
The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo Navarro
The Fugitive (1947) - Gabriel Figueroa
The Garden of Allah - W. Howard Greene
The General - Bert Haines & Devereaux Jennings
The Godfather - Gordon Willis
I Am Cuba - Sergei Urusevsky
In The Mood For Love - Christopher Doyle II & Pin Bing Lee
Koyaanisqatsi - Ron Fricke
Last Year at Marienbad - Sacha Vierny
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Vilmos Zsigmond
The Piano - Stuart Dryburgh
Raging Bull - Michael Chapman


Extremely tough one....I'll go with Agee by one very thin hair.

 

[Lew Crippen]

I agree with Steve. I was never that impressed with The Piano, while Agee’s list is solid.

Agee

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Agee

 

[Brook K]

Agee, by my count he has one more outstanding pick and none that I've seen that I'm not impressed with, while Walter has both The Piano and The Devil's Backbone that I don't think are anything special.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Well, I guess I should've stuck with the grail picks. I was afraid that The Piano was going to hurt me. Everyone has their opinions, and I certainly disagree with the prevailing notion in this thread regarding that film. ( At least Roger Ebert agrees with me, or is that the other way around? )

Hey Steve, you have any of those "got your ass kicked" membership cards laying around?


- Walter.

 

[SteveGon]

Hey Steve, you have any of those "got your ass kicked" membership cards laying around?

Unfortunately, yes. :frowning:

BTW, Walter, I think it was you I was chatting with about Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy - well, I just got done watching them (picked up the VHS box set) and all I can say is...wow! I'll be doing write-ups of all three films in the Expanding Horizons thread.

 

[Rain]

Walter

 

[Lew Crippen]

BTW, Walter, I think it was you I was chatting with about Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy - well, I just got done watching them (picked up the VHS box set) and all I can say is...wow! I'll be doing write-ups of all three films in the Expanding Horizons thread.

It may also have been Walter.

Glad you liked the films.

 

[SteveGon]

Thanks! I knew it was either you or Walter. :b

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Agee Bassett
- Hmm, and my first vote in this tourney.

 

[Agee Bassett]

Walter

Anyone with the eclectic wherewithal to know and appreciate Urusevsky's and Figueroa's work is a guaranteed from me.