Sentences with phrase «known as a cinematographer»

You see, what makes Medium Cool special is that director Haskell Wexler, who is better known as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, combined fictional drama and actors with real life events.

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Despite Pacino's always - enjoyable scenery chewing, Mann and cinematographer Dante Spinotti are more interested in Crowe, the remarkable Australian actor best known previously for his role as Bud White in «L.A. Confidential.»

Allen, production designer Santo Loquasto, and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (the legendary camera maestro here working, as is Allen, for the first time in the digital format, and knocking it out of the park) have a very particular vision of 1930s Hollywood, despite Allen's well - known and well - worn antipathy toward Los Angeles in general.

But a person so hateful, misogynistic and homophobic is simply a person / actor I will never support, no matter how good a performance.Oddly (which I am still struggling with) is that if he had a lesser role in the production of Sid and Nancy (such as writer, director, cinematographer, etc.) I would have still hoped for his acceptance speech.

But as in much of the prolific director's later work, one can't help but miss the creative contributions of Tak Fujimoto, the cinematographer of most of Demme's best and best - known films, including «Melvin & Howard,» «Something Wild,» «Silence Of The Lambs,» and «Beloved.»

Zhang's five features as a director — all made after he worked as a still photographer, then served as cinematographer on One and Eight (1982), Yellow Earth (1983), The Big Parade (1985), and Old Well (1987), in which he was also the lead actor — are the three features already mentioned, Red Sorghum (1987), and a period action thriller with political overtones about an airplane hijacking known as Code Name Puma or Code Name Cougar (1987), which has rarely been imported (and which colleagues have assured me isn't very good).

Foerster, who previously directed episodes of the television series «Criminal Minds» and «Outlander,» is widely known for her work as cinematographer on epic blockbusters such as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down.

A painter and cinematographer turned director, a craftsman turned celluloid dreamer, an industry veteran who created, almost single - handedly, the uniquely Italian genre of baroque horror known as «giallo,» he directed the most graceful and deliriously mad horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Knowing that mastering would be the first step in the process, I reached out to the cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, as we wanted him to be involved in a new HD transfer of the film for our release.

The cinematographer had challenges even in finding a support crew who knew how to work with film, as digital has become, for many, the only way to shoot a film.

He had seen my other films, so he knew my style, and as a cinematographer he adapted.

Moorhead's camera (he pulls double duty as cinematographer, just as Benson pulls double duty as screenwriter) shoots the Italian countryside beautifully, but sprinkles liberal bird's - eye flyover shots that manage to unsettle, hinting perhaps at something that only makes itself known from afar, otherwise hidden in plain sight.

Right from the start you know you are in good hands as Branagh, with prime help from cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and production designer Jim Clay, sets up a couple of dazzling continuous tracking shots in which we are introduced to this magnificent train as well as the passengers — all of whom soon will be suspects.

If anything, he's a classic example of the studio director who knew how to set up a scene (look at the mise - en - scene and deep focus in The Little Foxes, for example — of course, having Gregg Toland as cinematographer didn't hurt) and then get out of the way of his actors.

Cinematographer Daniel Landin, who may be best known for Radiohead videos Glazer directed, makes Earth cold and unappealing before the creature gains empathy, and forbidding but beautiful as she seeks to be human.

Still, no one much cared for Saulnier's debut, Murder Party, back when he was still known primarily as the cinematographer for fellow indie director Matthew Porterfield (I Used To Be Darker).

Anderson knows how he wants his films to look and feel, as he plays the role of cinematographer, creating a smooth hue that is palpable in almost every frame.

To the latter end, Rodrigo Prieto, a cinematographer usually known for grittier fare such as 21 Grams, contributes some of the most gorgeous images of Lee's oeuvre.

Needless to say, as in any good Western, much of the character comes from the on - location filming, and «Slow West» has it in spades, captured by the fantastic cinematographer Robbie Ryan (best known for working with directors Andrea Arnold and Ken Loach) in a narrower frame than you might expect, one that manages some intimacy with its characters.

From crafting mood and atmosphere to wowing us with the sheer ability to have «pulled off» a shot, cinematographers (also known as directors of -LSB-...]

Stony Island is no great shakes, though it does afford a chance to see late»70s, mercury - vapor - lit Chicago as filmed by Tak Fujimoto, a perennially under - appreciated cinematographer best known for his work with Jonathan Demme and M. Night Shyamalan.

Then as now a cult director, Godard was offering a code to initiates, some of whom could be trusted to know that Georges de Beauregard and Carlo Ponti were the producers, Raoul Coutard the cinematographer, Bernard Evein the production designer, and Agnes Guillemot the editor.

Babette Mangolte, well known as a filmmaker and as the cinematographer on a number of key films by Yvonne Rainer and Chantal Akerman (including Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles), was included in the Whitney exhibition The American Century; her Biennial contribution is a mixed media installation involving photography and a video that recreates an earlier installation from 1978.

Mr. Jafa (pronounced JAY - fa) is a polymath known as a filmmaker, cinematographer and theorist of black culture, specifically of the black body as both a creative force (especially in music and dance) and an object of white violence.

While Taylor is well known for his work on the film series, his career as a cinematographer only ran through a handful of other science fiction films before ceasing in 1994.