I had the pleasure of seeing these distinguished filmmakers at Ed’s chic opening at Marie-Dominique Toussaint’s Galerie Cinema in Paris. Ed is exhibiting frame blow-ups from his movies & collages. — Gaspar agreed that Lars von Trier’s upcoming Nymphomaniac seems like it will be more disturbing than sexy. Gaspar says that he will finally shoot [...]
___ In part 3 of my video interview with Chris Doyle, the cinematographer talks about the importance of “being there” on set, and talks about the collaboration between the late Harris Savides and director Gus van Sant. +++
— I posted the second installment of my DPs and Gaffers series on thefilmbook blog on the ASC web site. Here they discuss how they put together their lighting list. +++
My latest post for thefilmbook blog on the ASC site is based on a Camerimage seminar I moderated with cinematographers and gaffers, with the encouragement and sponsorship of Marc Galerne of K5600 Lighting, and additional support by Jacques Delacoux of Transvideo. _____ The participants pictured above are: Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, gaffer James Plannette, Michel Abramowicz, [...]
Je viens de recevoir cet ouvrage élégant de mon ami Philippe Rousselot. I just received this elegant book, written by my cinematographer friend Philippe Rousselot, as part of a series entitled “wisdom of a métier”. +++ Vous pouvez le commander ici You can order it here +++ My translation of the excerpt on the back [...]
I took this grainy photograph of the 2 cinematographers at the 2007 Camerimage festival in Lodz. +++ Christopher speaks about Harris in a video interview I did with him +++ My brief tribute to the late Harris Savides with links +++
— In response to the actor’s reported retirement, The Beast offers this montage of some classic Nicholson moments: watch on the Daily Beast +++
In an interview with Marlow Stern for the Daily Beast, the leads of the powerful masterpiece Blue is the Warmest Colors recount a very difficult shoot, very awkward sex scenes, and say that they will not work with director Abdelatif Kechiche again. ————— This follows other reports in the French press from crew complaining about [...]
Noted cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler shot a documentary (with Mike Butler and Nel Cox) of people traveling across the US in a bus to join the March on Washington in 1963. The 12-minute excerpt below shows a succession of brief interchanges by the protesters about non-violence, group decisions and other political talk. In Washington, [...]
The great Russian cinematographer has passed away. My condolences to his wife and family. I took this photo of Vadim at the Plus Camerimage 2012 Festival, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Yusov’s lengthy filmography included 3 films with Andrei Tarkovsky: Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, and Solaris. I also had the opportunity to interview [...]