Archive for the 'Photography' Category
The brilliiant cinematographer Freddie Francis has died. What a career. He started with Michael Powell and John Huston and ended with David Lynch!
As Director of Photography:
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Elephant Man
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Dune
The Straight Story
As Camera Operator:
Moby Dick
Beat the Devil
Moulin Rouge
The Tales of Hoffman
Well, all bets were off tonight. I was almost sure the Academy would give Chivo the award! I can only say I am thrilled that Guillermo Navarro won the Oscar for best cinematography. If you haven’t seen Pan’s Labyrinth I encourage you to see it as soon as possible. Great story, music, acting, effects, and most of all some of the most beautiful lighting in recent memory. I can’t decide if I loved this movie but I have been thinking about it every day since seeing it.
Somehow I managed to see all of the films nominated for best cinematography this year. By tomorrow evening one of them will be the winner and if I were a betting man I would put my money on Emmanuel Lubezki. If you haven’t seen Children of Men you are in for a treat. Lubezki’s camera eats up the screen. He isn’t creating beauty with his camera, he is telling the story. The beauty is derived from the film as a whole and not just the image on the screen.
The other nominees are no less impressive. Wally Pfister, Dick Pope, Guillermo Navarro, and Vilmos Zsigmond have lensed beautiful pictures. Navarro’s work on Pan’s Labyrinth stands out among his peers.
Good luck to the nominees.