No.2827
Whose visual style is most appealing to you (and why)?
One of my favorites is Vittorio Storaro, pic related. I never knew the name until I started watching early 70s gialli, particularly The Fifth Cord and Le Orme. Those films (and his work with Argento and Bertolucci) had a strong impact on me, more than his later movies that everyone has seen. I love his chiaroscuro of vibrant colors and deep blacks, the repeated use of parallel lines, and the scenes enveloped in light blue haze.
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No.2833
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Here is a profile of Storaro, Writing with Light from 1992 which is also the name of his books.
I could upload more screenshots for some of his films but that's kind of like playing only one note from a piece of music.
Anyway I'll post some other favorite cinematographers when I get the time. :)
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No.2842
Christian Matras
Gábor Medvigy
Sven Nykvist
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No.2893
The top google image result for "flim noir" is John Alton's iconic shot from The Big Combo. Alton helped define the style with films bathed in black shadows. There's a great DVD including two of his essential films: Raw Deal and T-Men. The steam bath scene in the second film is particularly memorable.
Interesting connection that Alton's book Painting with Light was titled quite similarly to Storaro's Writing with Light.
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No.2894
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A short profile of Alton
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No.4311
Somebody made a post on cinematography but I don't see it anymore. It reminded me about this thread so I'm bumping, anyone else care to contribute?
Another great artist is Zbigniew Rybczynski, known for his inventive experimental shorts and the serial killer film Angst (1983) which was a huge inspiration to Gaspar Noe.
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No.4312
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The documentary Zbig (2001) is what to watch to learn more about him. I actually found it on youtube but unfortunately the uploader did not add the subtitles
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No.4322
What are good films with amazing cinematography to watch?
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No.4327
>>4322I've been trying to suggest some. You could look at Best Shot Films from American Cinematographer magazine but it's mostly a list of familiar titles.
https://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/best/index.htmhttps://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/best/set2.htm Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.4341
>>2827I'm not up to par with the cinematographers as much as I should be but I'd have to say Freddie Young and the guy who DP'd Barry Lyndon, John Alcott.
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No.4798
A newer talent I've noticed is Manuel Dacosse who is best known for his work with Cattet and Forzani
http://manudacosse.com/
I want to see more of his projects…especially Nectar (2014) and Evolution (2015)
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No.5328
Thanks for the recommendations! I would like to add this very good documentary on Jack Cardiff.
Conveniently available on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6H37-8NzI
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No.5329
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No.9835
Embedding error.
Check this out:
Visions of Light.The Art of Cinematography (1992)
featuring:
Ernest Dickerson
Michael Chapman
Allen Daviau
Caleb Deschanel
Conrad Hall
William A. Fraker
John Bailey
Néstor Almendros
Vilmos Zsigmond
Stephen H. Burum
Charles Lang
Sven Nykvist
László Kovács
James Wong Howe
Haskell Wexler
Vittorio Storaro
John A. Alonzo
Victor J. Kemper
Owen Roizman
Gordon Willis
Bill Butler
Michael Ballhaus
Frederick Elmes
with clips from:
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)
Repas de bébé (1895)
L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (1895)
The Kiss (1896)
Le Spectre rouge (1907)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Way Down East (1920)
Der Letzte Mann (1924)
Ben-Hur (1925)
Napoléon (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Crowd (1928)
The Cameraman (1928)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Applause (1929)
The Locked Door (1929)
Possessed (1931)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Shanghai Express (1932)
As You Desire Me (1932)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
Becky Sharp (1935)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Desire (1936)
Camille (1936)
Jezebel (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Midnight (1939)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
The Killers (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
T-Men (1947)
The Naked City (1948)
Oliver Twist (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Big Combo (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Picnic (1955)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Jules et Jim (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Hud (1963)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Professionals (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Easy Rider (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Conformist (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Fat City (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Eraserhead (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Blade Runner (1982)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
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No.9836
>>9835
Jesus it's a mixed bag.
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No.9838
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>>9836
I didn't see all of it but I thought it was breddy good
Another one is Cinematographer Style (2006)
>Cinematographer Style is a 2006 documentary by Jon Fauer, ASC, about the art of cinematography. In the film, he interviews 110 leading cinematographers from around the world, asking them about their influences and the origins of the style of their films. This is the first major English-language documentary on cinematography since Visions of Light(1993).
featuring:
Remi Adefarasin, BSC
Russ Alsobrook, ASC
Howard Anderson III, ASC
Howard Anderson Jr., ASC
Peter Anderson, ASC
Michael Ballhaus, ASC
Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS
Bill Bennett, ASC
Gabriel Beristain, ASC, BSC
Larry Bridges
Jonathan Brown
Stephen H. Burum, ASC
Bill Butler, ASC
Bobby Byrne, ASC
Russell Carpenter, ASC
James Chressanthis, ASC
Peter Collister, ASC
Jack Cooperman, ASC
Ericson Core
Richard P. Crudo, ASC
Dean Cundey, ASC
Oliver Curtis, BSC
Allen Daviau, ASC
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC
Peter Deming, ASC
Caleb Deschanel, ASC
Ron Dexter, ASC
George Spiro Dibie, ASC
Ernest Dickerson, ASC
Bill Dill, ASC
Richard Edlund, ASC
Jon Fauer, ASC
Don Fauntleroy, ASC
Steven Fierberg, ASC
William A. Fraker, ASC, BSC
Michael Goi, ASC
Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC
Jack Green, ASC
Adam Greenberg, ASC
Robbie Greenberg, ASC
Henner Hofmann, ASC, AMC
Ernie Holzman, ASC
Gil Hubbs, ASC
Judy Irola, ASC
Mark Irwin, ASC, CSC
Levie Isaacks, ASC
Johnny Jensen, ASC
Victor J. Kemper, ASC
Francis Kenny, ASC
Richard Kline, ASC
Fred Koenekamp, ASC
Laszlo Kovacs, ASC
Ellen Kuras, ASC
Jacek Laskus, ASC
Andrew Laszlo, ASC
Denis Lenoir, ASC
Matthew F. Leonetti, ASC
Peter Levy, ASC,ACS
Matthew Libatique, ASC
Stephen Lighthill, ASC
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC
Bruce Logan, ASC
Julio Macat, ASC
Isidore Mankofsky, ASC
Chris Manley
Steve Mason, ASC, ACS
Clark Mathis, ASC
Donald McCuaig, ASC, CSC
Robert McLachlan, ASC, CSC
Charles Minsky, ASC
Donald M. Morgan, ASC
Kramer Morgenthau
M. David Mullen, ASC
Fred Murphy, ASC
Hiro Narita, ASC
Michael Negrin, ASC
Sol Negrin, ASC
Daryn Okada, ASC
Woody Omens, ASC
Daniel Pearl, ASC
Ferne Pearlstein
Wally Pfister, ASC
Bill Pope, ASC
Steven Poster, ASC
Robert Primes, ASC
Anthony Richmond, ASC, BSC
Owen Roizman, ASC
Pete Romano, ASC
Paul Ryan, ASC
Nancy Schreiber, ASC
John Schwartzman, ASC
John Seale, ASC, ACS
Dean Semler, ASC, ACS
Michael Seresin, BSC
Steven Shaw, ASC
Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC
Bradley B. Six, ASC
Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC
Ueli Steiger, ASC
Tom Stern, ASC
Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC
Rodney Taylor
John Toll, ASC
Kees Van Oostrum, ASC
Amelia Vincent, ASC
Haskell Wexler, ASC
Gordon Willis, ASC
Ralph Woolsey, ASC
Robert Yeoman, ASC
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
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No.9865
I never paid attention to Néstor Almendros but I saw him featured on Filmstruck
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No.9882
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Robby Müller Cinematography Masterclass
This video is technical and informative - we see what goes into the decision-making process of a skilled professional as he accommodates the director's wishes for a particular shot
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No.12051
<In celebration of the 110th anniversary of his birth, Japan Society presents an 11-film retrospective surveying the work of Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-1999), the most influential cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema. Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Miyagawa pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative and technically flawless camerawork.
Selected filmography
Singing Lovebirds (鴛鴦歌合戦 Oshidori utagassen, 1939)
Rashomon (羅生門 Rashōmon, 1950)
Ugetsu (雨月物語 Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953)
A Geisha (祇園囃子 Gion Bayashi, 1953)
The Woman in the Rumor (噂の女 Uwasa no onna, 1954)
Sansho the Bailiff (山椒大夫 Sanshō Dayũ, 1954)
The Crucified Lovers (近松物語 Chikamatsu Monogatari, 1954)
Street of Shame (赤線地帯 Akasen chitai, 1956)
The Love of a Princess (朱雀門 Suzakumon, 1957)
Enjo (炎上 Enjō, 1958)
The Gay Masquerade (弁天小僧 Benten Kozō, 1958)
Odd Obsession (鍵 Kagi, 1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Scar Yosaburo (切られ与三郎 Kirare Yosaburō, 1960)
Her Brother (1960)
Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō, 1961)
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (座頭市千両首 Zatōichi senryō-kubi, 1964)
Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック Tōkyō Orinpikku, 1965)
Zatoichi's Vengeance (座頭市の歌が聞える Zatōichi no uta ga kikoeru, 1966)
Zatoichi the Outlaw (座頭市牢破り Zatōichi rōyaburi, 1967)
Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
MacArthur's Children (瀬戸内少年野球団 Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan, 1984)
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No.12055
>>12051
I'll watch for that name from now on. I know very little about Japanese cinematographers.
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No.12724
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No.12734
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No.13724
Darius Khondji was DP on Delicatessen, Se7en, Amour, Funny Games (2007), The City of Lost Children, The Lost City of Z, Alien: Resurrection, Stealing Beauty, Okja.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Khondji
To get familiar, an excerpt from a new book of interviews with him: https://ascmag.com/articles/book-excerpt-conversations-with-darius-khondji
And a general career overview: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-cinematographer-is-in-jordan-mintzer-s-conversations-with-darius-khondji
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When you take on a project, how do you begin to visualize it in terms of the framing, the lighting and the overall look you want to give the film?
I would say that’s one of the hardest things for me as a cinematographer: finding the key that unlocks the film in a visual sense, that will illuminate the story so you’re inspired and excited about shooting it everyday for a long time — because when you decide to do a movie it can take anywhere from three months to a year of your life. When I find that key, it ignites what I call the “big bang.”
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No.13808
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No.13976
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Cinematographer Cameos
<This fun montage screened during the 28th Annual ASC Awards ceremony in 2013 and includes onscreen cameos made by cinematographers in a variety of motion picture and television projects.
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No.13985
>>13808
I had always thought that Tron was filmed entirely in 65-mm.
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No.13986
>>13985
Yes it was, but 65mm is the width of the film
That chart shows the focal lengths of lenses
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