City of God- César Charlone
The Conformist- Vittorio Storaro
A Very Long Engagement- Bruno Delbonnel
Raging Bull- Michael Chapman
Fanny and Alexander-Sven Nykvist
I’m watching Raw Deal, another noir masterpiece by Anthony Mann and John Alton. I marvel at how Alton gets such contrasts in his lighting, dark darks next to bright whites, and how he shoots in seemingly darkened rooms with his only light source through venetian blinds.
Barocco (1976)
Cinematography by
Bruno Nuytten
Swen Nykyst – Cries and Whispers, Persona etc.
Lawrence Of Arabia – F. A. Young
Cries And Whispers – Sven Nykvist
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Peter Pau
Cat People (1942) – Nick Musuraca
House Of Flying Daggers – Xiaoding Zhao
Manhattan – Gordon Willis
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1. L’Avventura
(Aldo Scavarda)
2. Blade Runner
(Jordan Cronenweth)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
(Geoffrey Unsworth)
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Russell Boyd)
5. Suspiria
(Luciano Tovoli)
6. Citizen Kane
(Gregg Toland)
7. Barry Lyndon
(John Alcott)
8. Schindler’s List
(Janusz Kaminski)
9. Lawrence of Arabia
(Freddie Young)
10. Psycho
(John L. Russell)
Three Colors: Blue – Slawomir Idziak
The Double Life of Véronique – Slawomir Idziak
Dekalog 1 – Slawomir Idziak
Three Colors: Red – Piotr Sobocinski
Persona – Sven Nykvist
Un conte de noel – Eric Gaultier
I think I’ll replace Psycho with Cries and Whispers, I mean that film by Bergman was poetic beauty. So no. 10 is Cries and Whispers
Jack Cardiff The Red Shoes/Black Narcissus/A matter of life and death/The African Queen
John Alcott 2001 : A Space Odyssey/A Clockwork Orange/Barry Lyndon/The Shining
Gordon Willis Godfather pics/Manhattan
Roger Deakins Fargo/No country for old men
Emmanuel Lubezki The New World/Sleepy Hollow
Janusz Kaminski Schindler’s List/Saving Private Ryan/The diving bell and the butterfly
John Toll The thin red line/Braveheart/Legends of the fall
Vittorio Storaro Apocalypse Now/The last emperor
Freddie Francis Glory/French Lieutenants Woman/The Elephant Man
Freddie Young Lawrence of Arabia/Doctor Zhivago/Lord Jim
Burnett Guffey Bonnie and Clyde/From here to eternity
George Perinal The four feathers/Thief of Bagdad/The life and death of colonel blimp
Greg Toland Citizen Kane/Wuthering Heights
Sven Nykvist Cries and Whispers/Fanny and Alexander/The Unbearable lightness of being
Vilmos Zsigmond Close encounters of the third kind/The Deer Hunter
There are so many :D
The Black Stallion – Caleb Deschanel
Far From Heaven…Ed Lachman
Definitely Luciano Tovoli- The Passenger. My god that final shot. GENIUS. completely blew my mind.
Best shots ever in film?
For me….
The opening shot of ‘Play it Again Sam’
The closing shot of ‘District 9’
The shot in ‘Sid And Nancy’ where they are coming off the boat and those cops are beating up everyone except for them
Possibly every single shot in Tarkovsky’s ‘Nostalgia’
Most of Conrad Hall’s photography for ‘In Cold Blood’
The shot in ‘Children Of Men’ where Clive Owen is walking through that war zone with the baby.
The shot in ’Ivan’s Childhood’ where the soldier holds the girl over the open grave and kisses her.
That first long tracking shot in Dreyer’s ‘Day Of Wrath’
Besides what’s already been mentioned, Das Boot – Jost Vacano
Anything by Lance Acord, Mathew Labitique works too… also Ed Lachman’s work is always good.
Some from the early age of film-
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Rudolph Mate
Sunrise – Charles Rosher and Karl Struss
M – Fritz Arno Wagner
Wooden Crosses – Jules Kruger and Rene Ribault
All Quiet on the Western Front and The Big Trail – Arthur Edeson
The Last of the Mohicans(1920)- Philip R. DuBois and Charles Van Enger
The Man with a Movie Camera – Mikhail Kaufman
and finally, Abel Gance’s “La Roue” which I finally came around to watching about 6 months ago, but this epic tragedy has stayed with me ever since. Four individuals(Gaston Brun, Marc Bujard, Léonce-Henri Burel, and Maurice Duverger) helped film this masterpiece. The final 10 minutes with Sisif (played by Serverin-Mars in his final role, months before his own death from a heart attack) alone in his cabin, high up in the French Alps, is one of the greatest endings to a film ever captured on celluloid. Beautiful, haunting, powerful and utterly breathtaking.
The Birds – Robert Burks
Death In Venice – Pasqualino De Santis
Bliss – Paul Murphy
Chéri – Darius Khondji
Hmmm….there’s heaps.
I really admire the work of César Charlone and Christopher Doyle. Any movie shot by them is a pleasure to watch… even if the movie is not that great in other aspects like in the case of Blindness for Charlone, it is still enjoyable to watch.
James
Chungking Express – Christopher Doyle
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly/Saving Private Ryan – Janusz Kaminski
L.A. Confidential – Dante Spinotti
The Thin Red Line – John Toll
Pleasantville – John Lindley